Another way to improve indoor air quality is to use natural cloth and fabrics whenever possible. Non-organic fabrics may have fumes coming off them for some time. Also, many many fabrics are made from materials that are heavy in pesticide use for growth (e.g., cotton) and dyes are often far from healthy for the environment.
In our home, we decided to "go green" with fabric when we moved in and had no curtains or blinds. I searched the internet for organic fabric sites, found wonderful fabrics of all cost ranges and a good range of colors, and then had a local seamstress sew the blinds to my specifications. Voila! Green blinds. Ours are a cotton/hemp mixture, a very faint peach hue, Roman design with a natural amber stone as the cord pull. Although other websites exist, the one that we used and the one that I thought had the best variety and best prices is: www.NearSeaNaturals.com. They will send swatches for you to look at, feel, match to other fabrics, etc. for a very small fee.
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