To think vertical blinds are utterly insane?

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Every house I've ever moved in to has had them.

Why?

They look like a 90's dentists waiting room.

Make your sitting room feel like an office.

Collect dust like anything,

Hideous strangulation hazard for children and animals.

Fall to bits if you put anything on the window.

Fall to bits if you brush past them...

Don't think they're cheap either!

Just why?

We have solid plastic vertical blinds that draw to each side of the window like curtains. We arent really overlooked or have many passing pedestrians so only need something to close at night.
They are very easy to clean and are so adaptable I wont be taking them down any time soon.
However , in our old house we had the same blinds but were on a busy road so the blinds were always across the window. They were so annoying of I wanted to check what was going on outside as you had to go up to the window and draw the blind aside instead of a stealthy peek between the slats.

You can wash nets and they won't kill my children or pets.

They also give a nice diffuse light. Don't fall to bit either.

Maybe it's because I've never experienced vertical blinds in any office that I've worked in, nor in any school common room .. I don't mind them. We have them throughout, and find them very practical. Not sure where people think the dust gathers, there's no dust on ours. The presence of strings is no problem for our son nor our cat.

Personally I hate nets. And I hate people looking in through the window. I can't afford shutters (I wish!) and don't want curtains closed the entire time. It just goes to show, people have different taste.

My 'nets' are a plain thin muslin. It's the lacy nylon ones which are awful, especially when the owners never wash them and they look brown and neglected. As for vertical blinds, I hate the white plastic bead connectors that always break.

Oh i totally agree. They're tasteless and dated.

Didn’t think they were one way when it’s lighter inside than outside... ie don’t work at night?

Thee same is true of netting, isn't it? But then, at night you can draw the curtains.

Nets.....timeless (and both washable and non leathal)

Nets are definitely not timeless. The only people I know with nets are in their 70s.

We have them in the living room and downstairs bedroom as our house is right on the pavement. They had them in the upstairs bedroom when we moved in, but the windows there are floor to ceiling height and every time you opened a window they would blow around and break so we got rid of them!

Nets!! Oh my god have I walked into a time capsule?!

Nets are just as bad, what's wrong with curtains, Venetian blinds, roller blinds, Roman blinds, shutters,

Oh god I HATE them with a passion. Our last house was full of them and I got so much joy out of ripping the fuckers down so it no longer felt like we were living in a local authority headquarters from years gone by. It brings me out in a cold sweat just thinking about them.

We have Day/Night blinds in our current house which I quite like. Not sure I would have chosen them myself but I'm in no real rush to change them and they are handy.

My parents aren't in their 70's yet....

Though my mother thinks that nets are dated.

I am not a huge fan but we have large patio windows and can’t afford shutters so we bought a vertical blind. Don’t mind it now. It’s practical. We can have it pulled to the side so totally open or angle it to diffuse light.

Not sure what else would work there. We have a kitchen/diner and wouldn’t want curtains soaking up cooking smells. Nets are naff. Voile too thick. Horizontal blind wouldn’t work as gap too wide.

Not sure what else would be as practical tbh.,

why do you not want folk looking into your houses? We have roman blinds which we only shut at night. The rest of the time feel free to look through our windows!

I have vertical blinds at work btw which are useful when the afternoon sun comes round. Never in the house though, too soulless

Nets are just as bad, what's wrong with curtains, Venetian blinds, roller blinds, Roman blinds, shutters,

Because you don't want to block out all light in the middle of the day.
Very few window coverings will allow privacy without a blackout.

I don't want to close my curtains or shutters at 2pm.

FunnysInLaJardin

Depends on you windows.
My sitting room front ( and rear) wall is basically all window- floor to ceiling, 15 foot wide.
I like my privacy.

I like those allusion ones!

I really couldn’t do nets

30's semi with huge windows. I’ve got nice looking vertical blinds.

The south facing ones do a great job of keeping the sun out. The front ones can be angled to give privacy but still enable me to have a nosey out to see what’s going on

I can also easily change colours by just changing the slats.

I agree the very cheap ones don’t look good in big windows

I agree OP they're awful.

We have these day/night roller blinds which are smart, let in light whilst giving privacy , and are a pain to clean like Venetian blinds

@UmmH
The beaded connectors'break' because it is a safety device which is a legal requirement. My cousin's child died because of strangulation in blind cord pre current regulations. Sometimes Health and Safety hasn't gone mad. And you just snap the beads back together.

Bloody autocorrect ... they're NOT a pain to clean like Venetian blinds

l'm in a rented house. My living room has a lovely big bay window which has wooden horizontal blinds and l hate them. They make the room dark and you can't tilt them the way you can vertical ones.
l've had vertical ones in previous places and at least you can tilt them so you still get daylight, but people can't see in. l can't do that with these ones. l'm right on the main road through the estate, too, so it's a a privacy issue. l tend to shut them as soon as l need to put the light on. And they're horrific dust collectors, too.

I put nets up

Net curtains remind me of an old nana who curtain twitches. They look horribly dated to me. Far prefer blinds.

Plus you can see through nets when the lights are on so then you have to have curtains aswell presumably? then you have two pairs of curtains that look grubby over time.

Can't see how vertical blinds look office like.
Do you mean horizontal??

Never mind I love my blinds :) they're definitely not a safety hazard. Don't collect dust (as they are vertical...). They're fab.

Not quite sure what's worse, nets or horizontal blinds.

Really, there is no winner there..