...to think that vertical blinds

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...live in offices and not people's homes.

YANBU.
Vile things.

Horizontals rock!

YANBU. We're renovating a house and one of the first things I did was remove the vertical blinds. Several people asked me why in horrified tones.

Strangely enough when offered them nobody took me up on the offer...

Oh, horizontals are lovely - particularly timber ones

I really don't understand why people actually choose to have them. A friend of mine renovated a house they bought and now has them at every window, a house over the road has changed their wooden blinds for them.

Do they get some kind of pleasure from pulling the plastic beads to open and close them?

Horizontals are lovely but are they not a pain to dust??

Agree verticals are only ok in an office.

Verticals if you have massive patio doors, to a south facing garden, are a godsend. YABU.

YANBU. At all. We had ours for a year (there when we moved in, massive window and I couldn't afford to shell out for curtains till we'd done more pressing work) and I hated them. I had to position the couch so we sat with our back to them. Couldn't look at their vileness, it's a house not a dentist!

I completely agree with you, offices only!

we have perfect fit horizontal blinds on our south facing patio doors, also blackout so can watch movies during the day with no TV glare.

Crikey- agreed! I've recently moved from a house with horizontals to a house with curtains and don't miss the dusty blinds one bit!

We had these one every set of French doors in the house when we moved in. They were all gone by the end of the first weekend.

Oooo yes it irks me to see them in people's houses - when I see them from the outside when I'm walking past I actually do a double take...

I'm always baffled by the presence of these when it's clear they haven't been left by the previous owner, and the current occupier is just making do in the short term. Why would you actually want to make your house look like the offices of a provincial solicitor?

YANBU and I have kids who can wreck them just by looking at them.

I'm all for lovely nets and voiles if it's privacy you need.

Totally agree - they are naff as anything. And don't get me started on sodding equally as naff unless you're in the tropics plantation shutters!

No slatted blinds, whether horizontal or vertical, have any place in a home. They all look vile.

I've got verticals. They were cheap and they stop passer bys watching us eat dinner.

I couldn't give a rats arse, as long as my neighbours can't see in, I'm good.

YANBU ?? I HATE those blinds, as my mother reckons I am snob, as i associatd them with thd poor snd those of poor taste. But,hey, better than disgusting net curtains.?

Vertical blinds are horrid. I always imagine the interior of the house to be really dreary if I see them.

YABU we have verticals because our living room is South facing and for any day with sun we can't see a fecking thing!! Horizontals, curtains, roller or Romans would have to be fully closed for more than half of every day!! At least with verticals I can regulate how much light we let in and to some extent direct it away from us or the tv!!

We've got them on the French windows in the kitchen, no other options as the counters come right out to the edge of the door alcove on each side, ruling out curtains and horizontal ones would look awful across the top. We never close them in daylight, in fact they probably won't be closed again till about October now, but they make a huge difference to the temperature of the kitchen when it's dark in winter. When they're open and pulled back you wouldn't really notice they're there, they are off white against white frames and paintwork. I take them down and wash them every now and then.

What is it that you don't like about them. My house is minimalist and I have them in every room. Never thought about them as they are practical, particularly on large South facing window.

They remind me of our sixth form common room- those got trashed in months. They fall apart so easily and are terrible dust collectors.

We got a sheer roller blind made. Lets in the light, stops people from seeing in, looks neat, rolls up easily. I don't know why it's not a standard product.

They are fucking horrible. I think of them as landlord's blinds as they infested each of the houses in Au I rented, and the one I bought, a long-term rental.