Not to get why anyone has vertical blinds?

[Moulesfrites]

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?

It's a sliding door.

Yep ^ wide, voile panels from Next.

Where I live, you never ever see them in homes (we're a bit more poncy wooden shutters territory) so they do look a bit institutional to me. I think there's definitely a regional variation in their popularity.

I can see that they are useful for French windows/sliding doors. Has anyone tried those sliding Japanese-style fabric panels, that are designed for the same job?

Northern Ireland gets the prize for the most I've ever seen

I would love wooden shutters and do intend on having them one day.

Scottish and proud to HATE vertical blinds with a passion!!!
I'm not understanding why people think venetian blinds are a problem on sliding doors-you pull them up!
I don't like vertical ones because to give total privacy they have to be totally closed, not just angled. With venetians, you just tilt the slats upwards.
However, when it comes to new housing estates, I wish I had a company making vertical blinds-they must make a killing

shesparkles so you're Scottish?

Do you LOVE Still Game? - introduced to it last year by my Scootish online friend - best comedy show i ever seen, love it! U?

Oh yikes! My dh has made me watch that so often that even I laugh and I hate it!

Carrotsandcelery booooo!

J&V rock! (i'm English and i get what Bobby (pronounced boaby) means now (hahaha)

sorry OP! x

Ha ha! Sorry OP! My dh wants to know if you have seen the one about the hire car when they need the loo? Ok Op, hijack over!

I think so ... but can't recall exactly as i may have watched that 5 months ago. Carrots Dh - wjhat was the episode called? Just tried to find it on Youtube! I love Naveed and Isa and the episode in the garden centre when they get locked in overnight!! PMSL!!!

Also the episode hatch where they knock through the dividing wall between J&V's falt i PMSL!

Dh now tells me it is Chewin' The Fat which is what came before Still Game. I can't find it on Youtube though - I will keep hunting.

I have vertical blinds in my lounge, just because i can't afford to change them and DH likes them [hmmm]

I'm scottish also :) I love Still Game, used to like "Chewin the fat" aswell

Yeah! Hardly find any Chewin' The Fat on Youtube either - except the sketch where the wife beats her husband. She is wearing a pinny and curlers and a hairnet. She beats the husband for not paiting the wall properly. Pushes him on the floor and outs the stepladders on him. Shouts HELP! out of the window! PMSL!

The DVD's usually go cheap online :) big fan of Jack and Victor, they're like a few old men here i know :)

you cant have venetians on a sliding patio door, you would have to open them fully to get out the door.

i have venetian blinds and i hate them i want some Black Vertical blinds from my living room.

whom has those on patio doors?

dunno it was suggested im just saying its a on runner - i have them nice beige sexy verticals

Oh my I thought it was just me that hated vertical blinds, glad i'm not alone!

Hmm if you lived a village were the world goes on holiday and you have curtains - you tend to get people standing openmouthed in front of your windows to see how the poor people in the villlage live and openly calculating the value of your house.

Since I got mine I feel much less like a zoo exhibit plus stopped the odd man down the road saying - I saw you asleep on your sofa today you looked so sweet

If I lived in a house surrounded by gardens and hedges I'd have curtains - but never thought I'd defend the windows of my house against ladies in judgey pants (mostly am trying to defend the state of the inside)

YouaretooniceNOT
I'm Scottish all the way through!

They make me cry. YANBU.