13th June 2014,
Is it going to be curtains, or blinds? Will it be manual or motorized? Can we put it up and forget about it for the next few years, or do we have to bring it down every six months or so, to wash it? These are some of the major questions facing us when we received the keys to our apartment. As we reflected on this, we concluded that basically, we are a very lazy people. It doesn’t make sense to us to have to stop whatever we are doing and get up to open or close a curtain or a blind, either to have privacy or to shut out a glare! That means, everything have to be motorized and controlled remotely to suit our lifestyle. But a beautiful golf course view with all the greeneries would be real hard to replace when we close the curtains or blinds and therefore the material should be pleasing, natural, and of course give warmth to the place.
This is where we found Maxtrack, a company specializing in locally manufactured blinds of high quality at affordable price. Based on our criteria of natural warm materials, and maintenance free blinds that are motorized, we installed different type of blinds for different rooms to bring out the character of the occupant. For example, for our 25- year-old son, we installed timber-finish zebra blinds which gives such a natural macho feel to the room, whether it is closed or opened. For our daughter’s room, we installed vision shade (a broad “venetian blind” like feel but made of fabric material with sheers) giving a very pleasant feminine look and feel to the room. For the masterbedroom, which has glass sliding doors, the ideal solution was big panel blinds which opened and closed following the sliding door panels. A guest to the house described these same blinds in the living and dining room as unique and interesting! Combined with the vision shade blinds like the ones in our daughter’s room, the master bedroom is both masculine with a touch of femininity. In the study, where I spend most of the mornings, we also went for zebra blinds with darker shade of timber-finish fabrics. When closed fully, the blinds have a 3-dimensional effect as there are two layers of horizontally striped blinds interlaced one over the other.
All the above are motorized for “lazy” people like us, pleasing to the eyes when closed, and maintenance free! And we did all these FULLY motorized blinds for nearly half the price of the manual versions of some of the imported brands in the market!
But that is not all. Nothing works when not properly installed, and this is where Maxtrack excels over other companies. They have Ah Seng, their “gentle” installer, a tall tanned man with the most polite mannerism! Every blind was carefully and meticulously installed to perfection for alignment, and smooth quiet motion. Any blind not properly installed is taken down and re-installed. That is what we called excellent service. But with excellent products and a good installer, is that all we need? To us, that’s not enough. You need a sales team that is empathetic to the customer’s needs, ever ready to solve problem for the customer, or to find alternative solutions for the customer. Maxtrack has one of the best sales personnel we have ever dealt with in my dealings with home interior suppliers. Karen was responsive to my requirements, patient with our inability to make up our minds, suggesting alternatives when the choices we have made were not quite that right! We congratulate Maxtrack for having both Karen and Ah Seng on their staff!
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