Not to get why anyone has vertical blinds?

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They are ugly things, no? Just been on a walk and noticed how many houses there are with them round here, often in every window. Why would you have them when there are so many nice fabrics around? Or am I missing something?

I have these on my patio doors
www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60083318

and suede effect roller blinds all through the rest of the apartment. Sadly I am v v v v close (yes that close!) to the pavement, and I keep the blinds down otherwise things get thrown at the windows etc

feck me - i've read it all on mumsnet!!

I have them and they are lovely! and no, they are not the cheap office ones either.

much better than net curtains - vile vile vile

I have them, I love them, I also have chocolate brown leather couches and laminate floor, oh yes and I have twiggy things. What's the problem?

oh and I have lovely comfy brown leather sofas!

I have them YABU. I'm not bland or boring, mine aren't beige or office looking.

I hate nets or voiles, they just look manky IMVHO. Plus the front rooms on our house, even in the winter get very, very hot with the sun coming in as we have huge windows. So vertical were the only answer really without resorting to nets.

Slats don't tend to go that big, so we can shut them, still have light coming in, but keep the glaring sun out. We are on a road too, I don't want people nosing.

I hate curtains more

We have them, and TBH I love them so much better than net curtains and more tidier. Didn't associate them with work tho (work in for a doctors practice)

Okay, I live in Scotland and have them on every window, through choice. Never realised that I was breaking a fashion rule. I think the curtains block out too much light, but sometimes you want privacy. Mine are very nice and not at all officey.

It's not an "either/or" with nets vs verticals. They're both vile in my opinion. Would rather risk people looking in than have either.
And how many of you exhibitionists people swan around in the nude all the time?

I don't have them but I like them. It's nets I can't stand. When I moved down south they were everywhere. They make even the nicest house look manky.

They are all over this small town( in Midwest USA) ~took mine down ,don't like them with my shabby chic home

I have red ones, landlord's choice, hate the things.

Thank you Mumsnet, for teaching me good taste. I shall burn my blinds immediately.

There were some in the living room and front bedroom when we moved into this house, we took them down because they're vile, remind me of sitting in a solicitors office when I was 8 while my mum got a divorce, and they're dangerous to my 8 month old baby.

The neighbours across the street have a great big sodding burglar light thing that goes on every time an ant crawls in front of it and when said neighbours saw we had taken the blinds down they came over and asked us why. We told them we didn't want them and they said "But what about the light" (probably thinking we were going to make a fuss over it - guilty conscience there perhaps?) and we just said "What about it? We have curtains."

It was like they're on a mission to convert the whole street to nasty vertical blindness!!!

To all the defenders of the vertical blind.

Yes, but.

What do vertical blinds do that horizontal slatted blinds don't?

Or wooden shutters.

There are no excuses.

I know what you mean. They remind me of the dentist.

I think they are cheaper than the horizontal kind though. We definitely need to get some blinds. Our living room is at the front of the house and I'd like a bit more privacy in the early evening. We have roman blinds atm which are fine, but you can only have them up or down IYSWIM.

OK, all you vertical blind-haters - find me an alternative.

We have a double patio door in our playroom where the double-glazing unit has failed, so the glass has permanent cloudy patches on it and is really unsightly. Replacing the glass unit is pricy given the size of the door.

The DCs often want to cut out the light to watch TV/play Wii etc.

I loathe nets/voiles.

So I need something that obscures the view of the window, but lets light in, but can easily be adjusted to block the light, that is suitable for a patio door, that is not made of net.....vertical blinds, surely??

What about venetion ones? They don't look half as bad imo (but then I'm hardly Hyacinth Bucket so who am I to judge )

v popular on council estates - just an observation!!

i have never lived on a council estate in my entire! i have vertical blinds on my dining room patio doors!

Venetian ones on a double patio door would look ridiculous. You'd have to open them fully to get out of the door, too.

YABU.

FFS, now I am bland, boring, clueless, council estate, Scottish scruff because of the material I put on my windows...

I'm happy taht is all you have to worry about but unfortunately most normal folk have better thhings to do than moan about what someone has on their windows...Get a life!

CointreauVersial don't be rediculous

You can get venetion blinds that attach to the top and bottom of the window so they would open with the door iyswim? That wouldn't look as ridiculous as having them loose.