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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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WhereDoesThisToiletGo · 28/05/2019 14:04

Do you live in Northern Ireland? They are ubiquitous here but I rarely see them in England

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 14:06

Northern England, they're bloody everywhere

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Csleeptime · 28/05/2019 14:10

Why would either if you make the other have something they hate. You share the home that is not compromise. I assume he didn't hate your choices and you forced them upon him? If someone hates something ok shouldn't have it, simple.

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Csleeptime · 28/05/2019 14:10

We ripped ours straight out, filthy, impossible to clean and definitely not modern. There is always a choice! Don't do it!!!

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 14:23

No he was fine with my choices.

I picked them with his taste in mind. Given free reign I would chosen something different but I knew he would hate my first choice and I wouldn't impose that on him, apparently I am not afforded the same courtesy because I haven't contributed any money to this (I'm a sahm).

I have messaged him to let him know when the various quotes are happening (getting ones from three places) and asking once more if he is dead set on verticals and that I really don't like them, I haven't had a response.

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DirtyDennis · 28/05/2019 14:36

You don't have a blinds problem, OP, you have a DH problem.
Get your ducks in a row and prepare to LTB

Vertical blinds in a house are never ever okay.

Grin
domesticslattern · 28/05/2019 14:42

I have them in our rented house.
They look shit, flap around stupidly letting light in and are absolute buggers when there is the tiniest draft. The tappety tap noise they make when a window is open makes me murderous.
Don't let him do it!

Doobigetta · 28/05/2019 14:45

Is it worth you letting him choose the floors, if it will make him agree to back down on the blinds? Verticals really are hideous, there’s no getting away from it. Always remind me of a dentist’s waiting room, for some reason.

It’s all very well saying a couple should both have input into home decorating decisions, but it’s not easy when one person has terrible taste Confused Grin

WhoKnewBeefStew · 28/05/2019 14:46

The only place vertical blinds should be, (IMO) is in the kitchen.

thedevilinablackdress · 28/05/2019 14:46

Just wanted to add my sympathy OP. I know it's 'only some home furnishings' but I'd feel extremely strongly about this. Apart from the extreme hideousness, the way they move about makes the light flicker and can trigger migraines for me.

woollyheart · 28/05/2019 14:46

I had vertical blinds in one room. They were a nightmare. They were always getting tangled in things and the glue came unstuck and I ended up stapling them to keep them together. Lots of fiddly weights and bits of chain everywhere.

It didn't look stylish at all. Fortunately, long gone now after ds complained they looked dreadful - and ds is not normally one to worry about how smart we are!

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 14:49

The floors are already down (and are beautiful oak effect, no one believed that they weren't real wood until I showed them a leftover bit Grin)

I've picked the new front door too, and I'll get a strong say in bedroom furniture, so I'm trying to bite the bullet on this one but there's no getting past how ugly verticals are.

At least I can hide them behind my lovely curtains in the evening and draw them back in the dayHmm

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Soola · 28/05/2019 14:49

I find his attitude of him being the breadwinner gives him control over the home furnishings quite abhorrent.

That’s not a partnership that’s a dictatorship.

Bluntness100 · 28/05/2019 14:55

What's your colour scheme op?

I have to say I agree with the others, they don't work in a domestic setting, but if you go for an unusual colour then they can be a little less corporate. Cream, pale grey, all the usual office colours need to be avoided.

Here is a couple of images.

Maybe you can talk him into shutters as another option?

Tell me about your stylish vertical blinds
Tell me about your stylish vertical blinds
Pootles34 · 28/05/2019 14:56

Soola he inherited the money being used for these, so it is a little bit different... he's still wrong though.

Pootles34 · 28/05/2019 14:57

What does he say about shutters OP? They'd look lovely in a bay window.

Doobigetta · 28/05/2019 14:58

Wear him down. Just go on about it, nonstop.
Have you picked the horrible blinds yet?
When are we getting the ugly blinds?
I’m so sorry about the state of the place, Nigel picked these awful blinds.
It’s really childish and you might get divorced, but then you can pick nice window coverings.

cheesenpickles · 28/05/2019 14:59

Get plantation shutters. Easy to clean ( literally shut them and dust them) keep warm in, cold out and you can adjust them so you can see out but people can't see in.

Bluntness100 · 28/05/2019 14:59

No sorry. I tried, they really are appalling.

cheesenpickles · 28/05/2019 15:00

Also, you can have them made to fit bag windows. We have two large bags upstairs and downstairs and have them in both.

Sleepinglemon · 28/05/2019 15:05

I don't agree they keep better. We had verticals in a rental and they were forever getting tangled up and the plastic strings breaking. I've had gorgeous walnut slatted blinds in the bay of the home I bought for the last 3 years and they're still perfect.

Also in the North and they're not ubiquitous where I live.

Don't give in op.

HironsBirons · 28/05/2019 15:08

Look at panel blinds from ikea. Verticals are horrific

EnidButton · 28/05/2019 15:16

it's his money anyway

I'd have a bigger problem with this attitude. I know some couples separate everything out though so maybe that's just me. We see all money as our money equally. Besides which even if you do do separate finances, using it as leverage like that seems shitty. He's being a knob.

Can confirm vertical blinds are everywhere in the North. I threw ours out years ago but I'd say 70% if the houses around us still have them.

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 15:18

He's just called me.

Said 'you'd better find something in that style because I don't like any of the others'

Thanks rollers are pointless because you can half see in.

Completely refused horizontal because they get too dusty

Hard no to shutters.

I could honestly weep as dramatic as that sounds.

He threw back that I've picked 'everything else' so I told him I picked them with his taste in mind and he just said 'we are getting vertical blinds and I'm not dealing with your drama'

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BillywigSting · 28/05/2019 15:21

Has said I've chosen everything else and he's not changing his mind on this one

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