First-Ever Survey & Analysis of More than 1.2 Million Members Reveals Top-Rated Professionals and Current Design Trends from Across the Country

LOS ANGELES,California  –  March 30, 2012 –
Jacoby Company Inc. of Los Angeles, California has been awarded  “Best Of Remodeling” 2012 by Houzz, the leading online platform for residential remodeling and design.  The 30-year old Custom window treatment and upholstery firm, was chosen by the more than 1.2 million registered members of the Houzz community.

The Houzz “Best Of Remodeling” award for 2012 is given in two categories: Customer Satisfaction and Design. Customer Satisfaction award winners are based on homeowner members who rated their experience working with remodeling professionals in 12 categories ranging from architects, and interior designers to contractors and other residential remodeling professionals.  Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the 1.2 million members, also known as “Houzzers,” who saved more than 16.5 million professional images to their personal ideabooks via the Houzz site and iPad/iPhone app.

“Changing lives one window at a time.”

“With 3.5 million monthly unique users and 80 million monthly page views, Houzz has rapidly become the largest community of active remodelers, providing homeowners and design enthusiasts with first-hand advice from Houzzers who have been through the renovating and decorating process,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of marketing for Houzz. “This is a real stamp of approval for Cory Jacoby from the Houzz community and we’re thrilled to welcome her to this elite group of ‘Best Of’ winners.”

With Houzz, homeowners can identify not only the top-rated professionals like Cory Jacoby, but also those whose work visually aligns with their own design goals. Homeowners can also evaluate professionals by contacting them directly on the Houzz platform, asking questions about their work and evaluating their responses to questions from others in the Houzz community.

About  Cory Jacoby
Specialists in elegant windows since 1980. Our draperies, blinds and window treatments are featured in home tours, commercial sites and fine homes throughout Southern California. We work with some of the top interior designers in Los Angeles and the greater Southern California area. Our personalized, mobile service brings the showroom to you–some of our treasures can be found nowhere else but here, at the Jacoby Company.

About Houzz
Houzz (www.houzz.com) is the leading online platform for home remodeling, providing inspiration, information, advice and support for homeowners and home improvement professionals through its website and mobile applications. Houzz features the largest residential design database in the world, articles written by design experts, product recommendations, a vibrant community powered by social tools, and information on more than 1.2 million remodeling and design professionals worldwide who can help turn ideas into reality. @houzz_inc

More tomorrow!

Have you ever wondered, really, what makes Custom Drapery cost so much? Whenever I am talking about custom drapery, and the client has not done this before, they almost about faint when they hear how much it is going to cost them.  I would like to take a few seconds of your time and tell you about the process and why it appears expensive.  One thing we all need to remember, and I try to explain this in detail to my clients, this treatment is one you are going to be living with, looking at, enjoying for years to come and it needs to be perfect, not something you can just buy on line and hope it works.  Custom Drapery, when done correctly, can dramatically can a room and your lives—believe it or not.  That is why our tag line is, “changing lives one window at a time”, because we do.  So, back to the costs….

First, we have the cost of the drapery material itself.  This fabric range can be from$ 5.00 a yard to over a hundred dollars a yard- yikes.  But, honestly, most of our fabrics never get that high as I even find those prices out of line.  Then, we need to add lining, blackout or regular sateen, then decide if the drapery will need an interlining, then we have to pick the most fabulous hardware to compliment the drapery, and then once that is all gathered, off the workroom the fabrics go.  We don’t send out draperies to the orient to  be made up, but instead,  do the work in our workroom.  This not only provides jobs for local folks, but the quality control and workmanship are excellent and I prefer offering that quality to our clients.  You can see from the pictures that making a custom drapery, from the beginning of the cutting process to ironing the fabrics, getting the pleats sewn in or hand stitched, to pressing all the sides of the hems of the drapery and it goes on and on until the finished product is hung up for inspection and then plastic wrapped waiting for Gary to pick it up for installation.

Does custom drapery cost more than ready made drapery?  Yes, and now you can see why.  And, all for good reason.  Tomorrow I am going to blog all about the different linings to use and the following day, I will be blogging all about the installation process.

I hope this article has helped you understand our business a little bit better.  But, don’t worry, I have tricks up my sleeve that can help cut the costs to make custom drapery affordable.

Call us today for a complimentary consult!

Hugs.

Cory

and this one we did just this last fall. … A classic is always in style…                

In this bedroom our challenge was two fold:

A.  Hide the ugly window behind the bed

B.  Sound Control from the noisy neighbors

What I decided to to do make this happen was to drape the back wall to hide the windows completely and keep the elegance in the room.  As you can see from this photo that we accomplished that misson!  The trick is to blackout line the drapery so all of the light is blocked out and no one would know there were windows back there.  The client was going to have her contractor remove the windows completely or just put a board up, but we solved the problem without doing that.  For the sound control, we interlined the drapery with bump interning and with the  combination of blackout lining, the room was very calming.  The client is thrilled beyond words.  The room is gorgeous!

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