Jessup, MD (PRWEB) February 01, 2015

Next Day Blinds was awarded Best of Houzz for Customer Satisfaction by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design.

The premier manufacturer, retailer and installer of custom window coverings in the WashingtonBaltimore area for over 20 years, Next Day Blinds was chosen by the more than 25 million monthly unique users that compose the Houzz community from among more than 500,000 active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.

The Best of Houzz award is given in only two categories: Design and Customer Satisfaction. The Customer Satisfaction award is determined by a variety of factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2014.

All of our blinds, shades and shutters are crafted, sold, installed and serviced by Next Day Blinds professionalsnever subcontractors. This seamless integration of services means that were all on the same team, working together for complete customer satisfaction, says Steve Freishtat, president and CEO of Next Day Blinds.

Each and every week, Next Day Blinds employees receive several hours of customer satisfaction training, using specific feedback from survey results and field audits. That pays off in glowing reviews from our customers and top rankings from consumer groups and independent agencies, says Meghan Hodge, vice president of marketing.

Liza Hausman, vice president of industry marketing for Houzz, adds: Houzz provides homeowners with a 360-degree view of home building, remodeling and design industry professionals, empowering them to engage the right people and products for their project. Were delighted to recognize Next Day Blinds among our Best of professionals as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes.

Follow Next Day Blinds on Houzz. http://www.houzz.com/pro/nextdayblindspro/next-day-blinds

About Next Day Blinds We started Next Day Blinds in 1993 with one simple idea: to bring people premium-quality, fully custom window coverings in days instead of weeksat competitive, factory-direct prices. Over the years, our neighbors throughout the WashingtonBaltimore area have embraced our Quality Crafted Locally approach and made Next Day Blinds their favorite window-covering experts. Next Day Blinds continues to offer a combination of advantages unavailable anywhere else. Learn more about the Next Day Blinds difference at NextDayBlinds.com.

About Houzz Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finishonline or from a mobile device. From decorating a room to building a custom home, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community powered by social tools, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin and Sydney. For more information, visit http://www.houzz.com.

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For the ninth straight year, political rights and civil liberties across the globe have declined, according to Freedom Houses annual report. In 2014, democracy was under its greatest threat in the last quarter century in places such as Egypt, Thailand, and Russia. Another survey, called AmericasBarometer Study, found a precipitous drop of trust in elections in 26 countries in the Americas, from Chile to Canada.

Globally, public trust in government, business, media, and nongovernmental organizations evaporated last year, according to a survey of 33,000 people by the Edelman public relations firm. For the first time, nearly two-thirds of the 27 nations surveyed fell on the distrustful side of the Edelman Trust Barometer. Surprisingly, trust in NGOs fell for the first time.

In the United States, a federal survey shows a steady decline in 16 of 20 indicators of civic health. Fewer Americans, for example, say it is important to report a crime. In the last elections, only slightly more than one-third of eligible voters cast ballots.

Support for democracy remains high around the world. But, says political scientist Hendrik Wagenaar of the University of Sheffield, Satisfaction with the performance of their own democratic system does not tally with citizens political aspirations.

Professor Wagenaar, like many scholars, wonders if people are searching for new forms of civic association based on shared values and beliefs, often local in nature or through digital communities.

They feel that official democracy, the democracy that the media report on, does not do well in addressing these concerns, let alone solving them, he writes. People havent abandoned politics, but politics, they feel, has abandoned them. He cites cases in Europe of citizens coming together to organize social goods in voluntary attachments, such as in sustainable energy, rural transport, or access to the Internet. They create ties of mutual dependency outside of government.

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