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?

All these people claiming to have "lovely" vertical blinds - we need to see them because quite frankly the rest of us don't believe they exist.

MIL has the aforementioned vertical blinds in front of criss cross leaded windows, with heavy curtains pulled half way across the windows at all times. What's the point of shelling out on curtains when you keep them open and never see them? Her house is SO dark, they have artificial lights on all day, every day, even when it's a bright sunnny day outside. God forbid anyone walks up to teh end of their cul de sac and manages to see across the 20 foot garden/drive, into the house and sees MIL and FIL at the back of the room, sitting on the sofa watching Countdown.

This thread is so funny - I totally identify with both views. I have 'inherited' vertical blinds on the house we have recently moved into. Every time we have visitors coming to see the house for the first time I always say 'of course the blinds are a bit corporate'!!! It's a large house, on the road, so actually they're very practical, just not pretty!!! I've put nice curtains up in the double aspect lounge - permanently tied back (just like the previous posters' in-laws!!!). With lovely poles and tie-backs as well, they do soften, but not erase the corporate connection!!!! They'll be staying for a while. In an ideal worlds I'd have plantation shutters in a heartbeat but am too tight to fork out the £££££ needed!!!

Vertical blinds are hideous. I don't mind a roller but I think horizontal look like shop shutters. I have nets but only downstairs. Upstairs I have no blinds at all!
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I have vertical blinds but it's the only thing I can think of to put up there. I've got two large windows downstairs that face out onto the footpath and road. It's for our kitchen diner so blinds are the only thing I can think of to give us a bit of privacy during the day. Nets just remind me if my Nana's house, horizontal blinds I think are worse and roller means everyone will get a good old look into the house during the day

We've got patio doors and we're getting nets. Can chuck them in washer and they take no time to dry. Something like this with equally washable full length curtains over the top:

I’m still agog about the vertical blinds. They seem quite common judging from this thread, yet I’ve never seen them. It’s split between curtains, shutters and roller blinds where I live.

We have vertical blinds in the kitchen. They were the best choice for the space and work well. They are a practical solution for a practical room.

Personally can't stand nets and they don't give total privacy at night. Curtains just would be a big royal pain due to location so blinds it is.

The thing is, do people really care what others use as window coverings in their homes? I honestly couldn't tell you what my neighbours use, as I don't tend to look in other peoples houses, and honestly don't care either. It's all about personal taste. As is evidenced by this thread, what is lovely to one is hideous to another.

Have to say that those horizontal shutter things are a bit Mrs Hinch..,

🤣 you have nets though!

Shutters are definitely the most practical solution when you have large sash windows. I've seen some people with the privacy stickers if that's what they are called, they look better then nets.

I want to see a pic of vertical blinds, I have never seen them in any house

This is what I'm on about:

As a Londoner I've always been against high bushes/hedges for privacy, a burglars dream.

I honestly didnt realise people still had net curtains. I always presumed only elderly people still had them.

I think theyre gross- they always look grubby and make the house inside look dingy and depressing

I hate these blinds too, loads of houses in my street have them. It's almost like they have no imagination and have copied what other people have done.

They're bland and boring

Thanks for the pic, I have never seen anything like that before in peoples houses.

Anything but curtains looks awful. When I lived in a house where the sitting room looked onto the pavement I had floaty net things for privacy, which were still pretty awful.

tbh I can't remember the last time I've seen vertical blinds in an office environment either

Between those two pictures upthread, the blinds on the door look way more modern and coordinated than the nets.

Definitely not elderly!

Do like the retro thing though.

@IvinghoeBeacon I love curtains but if you get lots of light you have to close them during the day which I didn't like.

I’m really not a fan of blinds at all. They don’t block the light and they clack in the wind, plus they’re just not attractive. But nets! They’re just as unattractive. Timelessly 1960s!

@doobiev

Are you a vampire?

Yes I am

Modern and coordinated...

Possibly the opposite of my taste- which is more miss-matched, vintage bohemian 😁

Imagine the home of a retired, female Indiana Jones who has stocked the home she inherited from her batty maiden aunt with beautiful things from around the world.

Sort of describes what I'm aiming for

@doobiev

Awesome 😎

I don't mind vertical blinds, or roller blinds. Horizontal blinds are hideous, dust collecting monstrosities though and as for nets? Just no. Utterly horrible things, yuck, yuck, yuck.