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Tell me about your stylish vertical blinds

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 12:20

Back story - have recently moved house and almost every window is in need of new blinds.

The rub is, I like venetian blinds (though not the dust) and dp is dead set on verticals.

I don't really like vertical blinds, they remind me too much of school and office buildings, and Dr surgeries in the 90s.

Please tell me about /show me your vertical blinds that are less corporate looking and bit more homely.

I'm trying to get my head around the idea of them in the name of fairness and keeping the peace (I have chosen all of the flooring and curtains. Dp is insistant on vertical blinds. I'm choosing the style though).

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bsc · 28/05/2019 12:22

They're just office-y not homely, aren't they?
Why does he insist? What on earth does he like about them?

TwelveThirtyTwo · 28/05/2019 12:22

There is no such thing as stylish vertical blinds.
They are like living in an office building.
Please, please don’t do it.

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 12:24

Nooo!

These were my thoughts exactly!

He likes that they're 'easy to clean' they fucking are not and that they don't break like roller/ventians.

I really don't like them but he totally refuses to budge and is paying for them from an inheritance he got

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TwelveThirtyTwo · 28/05/2019 12:27

If he's paying from an inheritance even more reason to not get cheap Venetians.
Roman blinds don't break, you can get them made from a fabric of your choice in exactly the right colour. No brainer.

Soola · 28/05/2019 12:29

A few years ago vertical blinds became very popular and when one house in a street/road got them, others followed suit.

Personally I think they look awful in a home setting.

Soola · 28/05/2019 12:32

I also think that when it comes to styling your home both of you should be enthusiastic about what you choose or one of you being ambivalent.

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 12:33

We have them in the kitchen (house came with them) and the two kitchen windows are enormous so it doesn't look too bad. They can be drawn right back and split in the middle like curtains too so I don't mind them too much there.

He's determined to have verticals in the living room and bedrooms though. The living room is a bay window

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 12:35

I was actually pretty upset at the prospect of verticals (to the point of tears, bit of an overreaction I know but I was really hoping for anything but those) and nothing has moved him.

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Pootles34 · 28/05/2019 12:35

They're awful. My neighbour has a beautiful home, her dining room is gorgeous, but then she totally ruined it with god awful vertical blinds. Why would you?!

If you really have a lot to spend, perhaps shutters might be the way to go?

Soola · 28/05/2019 12:37

So he knows you hate them but is going ages and buying them?

It’s not like a small thing in the home, a window dressing is a major feature.

Perhaps you could insist on a large artwork of Justin Bieber’s face and tell him that you won’t budge?

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 12:38

I think they're awful too but there really is no telling dp otherwise.

It's basically definitely going to be verticals.

Was really hoping there was a way for them to be less hideous Sad

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DerelictWreck · 28/05/2019 12:40

Do they have to be slatted/ventian? Why not have horizontals that are one piece, then they're easy to clean?

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 12:41

I'm choosing the fabric etc but it basically has to be that style.

The style I like the least Sad.

He said because I got to choose the flooring (which had to be laminate not carpets), the curtains and hall/stairs carpet, he is getting to pick the type of blinds we have, and he likes verticals, and 'it's his money anyway'

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PaintingOwls · 28/05/2019 12:43

Why does he want them?! Confused Why does he have such appalling taste?

They are hideous, they're not even used in modern offices anymore fgs. I would kick off ww3 over this to be honest.

If you absolutely must, just have a look on Pinterest. There are a couple which look just about tolerable - the common denominator appears to be full length and a natural colour and or texture. But overall BLAHHH

FedUpEffedOff · 28/05/2019 12:47

Our house had them when we moved in. They are so awful that I wanted to cry. Lots of houses in our street have them. I replaced them with shutters almost immediately. There is still one set in the bathroom (I know!) which I can't replace until the bathroom is redone shortly. They make me depressed every time I'm in there.

Soola · 28/05/2019 12:55

I wouldn’t want to be with him to be honest!

But if he’s going ahead and you are giving in to him, then I would see them go up and lie my head off and say, “Actually I’m really surprised they do look really nice!” I would enthuse over them and let him smugly think he was right all along.

Then I would sabotage them. Carefully weaken the fixtures and fittings so that they fall down or break but done in such a way as to look like they are crap and not deliberately broken.

DramaRamaLlama · 28/05/2019 12:59

They're hideous.

And his attitude sounds pretty bad too

crumpet · 28/05/2019 13:12

There are NO stylish vertical blinds in a domestic setting, unless your whole house is styled around them (including the architecture).

How about some sheer blinds?

Tell me about your stylish vertical blinds
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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 13:14

He likes them for the privacy they provide.

It doesn't help that out of the ten houses that can be seen from the from windows, seven have these monstrosities in every window.

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ShakespearesSisters · 28/05/2019 13:20

Right, well, I was going to use these in our new family living/kitchen room on a couple of the windows. There is a 2.4m wide by 1.2 m high window, and a 2m x 1.1m kitchen window, a 2.1mx1.5m floor to ceiling window and then bifolds 2.3m wide.
I was thinking a roller at the kitchen window, and vertical at the tall window and other window and click fit blinds at the bifold.
I did think about Roman blinds but thought it would be too much for the tall window where as the vertical would stack on the one side.
What would you guys recommend?

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 13:24

Roman blinds would look ridiculous on all of our windows too they're all very big, pretty standard length but very wide

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MindyStClaire · 28/05/2019 13:31

I'm not a big fan, but we have a round bay in the front of our house and verticals were the only option. I didn't want all of the windows to look different from the road, so... we have verticals throughout.

They are a sheer material like crumpet posted above so every slightly less officey. I do like that when they're open it's like they're hardly there. I don't like the little clicky plastic bead stuff along the bottom - surely there must be another option for that these days?!

Lost5stone · 28/05/2019 13:46

Well I tried to pinterest search some. After all, pinterest can make anything look good. But nope. Sorry OP

Soola · 28/05/2019 14:00

Your husband is a chump and your windows are going to look shit, op.

I suggest you buy some alcohol and roll around on the laminate flooring lamenting your life on one hand but on the other consoling yourself with the fact you did get to choose the flooring of which you are now too inebriated to get up off.

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 14:01

I have seen some that don't have that ugly plastic chain but they're either rigid (which honestly sounds even worse) or have metal weights sewn into the bottom of each strip, which means whenever you open /adjust them they swing about all over the place

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