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?

doobiev I have south-facing French doors in the same room as north-facing windows. It is lovely and bright. The only time we close the curtains is on the French doors in the middle of the day during a heatwave to stop it getting too warm inside. I’ve never needed to close the curtains against the light otherwise

YANBU OP, they’re evil. i had some in my old house, not sure what possessed me. I think it was pressure from my mother when I was young. I hated them. Every time I’d open the window, click click... click, click click.

We've got Perfect Fit blinds. Fit into the window recesses. No cords. No rattling of blinds when window open

I have vertical blinds and love them .you can adjust them easily.
They do not gather dust. I agree that vertical blinds and cats not a good combination as they weave in and out of the blinds on the windowsill.
Preferable to nets and Venetian blinds I think for privacy.

We have them - I'm not particularly fussed on aesthetics and they are the most practical option for our living room.

Can't get worked up or judgemental about other people's furnishings or decor tbh 🤷

YANBU they're hideous - particularly in a house.

New vertical blinds have a stick rather than cord to adjust them so strangulation hazard reduced.

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I put nets up.

They're timeless (and both washable and non leathal)

Nets are awful

@IvinghoeBeacon our garden is west facing so east facing front rooms & some windows on the south side. Because we have big windows sometimes the light is too much eg if you want to watch the TV.

Nets are absolutely fcking horrible. I don't know why anyone would choose them.

I am chuckling at the OP casting judgement on blinds when she has nets though 😆

I've always hated them. I live in a new build estate and a few people have them (which means they've bought them recently) which shocked me as I didn't think they made them anymore

Obviously people choose practical options - I had net curtains when trying to avoid people staring into the sitting room whilst walking past on the pavement. They still looked awful and I was glad not to need them in a new house

What's so bad about nets? Much more practical than vertical blinds surely?

Vertical blinds are one of those things I just don't understand how they got off the drawing board. Like riser plugs and toilet cisterns with the button in the middle.

Door handles at hip height too? Just why? Designed hit toddlers in the head!

We have them in our living room for privacy. I am not a fan of them in bedrooms, and I hated the ragged looking ones in our old house (they were the kind you are talking about), but they work in that room and these ones are safer than any other blinds we've had as they don't have a cord, there's a wand instead, and they don't have the little chain links between the slats. They're also easy to clean and can be pulled aside easily.
The 'child safe' Venetian blinds we have in a couple of rooms are only safe if they are down, when pulled up they have an exposed cord. And the cat likes to poke her head through them, sometimes getting caught.
As for net curtains, or to give them their modern name 'voiles', really?! They have their place, but are definitely more dusty and are much more of an attraction for kids to play with as they're see through, make a pretty veil/mask, etc. Plus pets get their claws caught on them. I find they darken rooms more than you might expect and give a 'closed in' feeling (we have one on our hall window for privacy).
Mix and match is the way to go in my opinion, too much of any ome thing can look ridiculous. There's so much choice: Verticals, Venetians, Romans, roller, voiles, shutters, window film and so on.

Each to their own though. Just remember that every vertical blind owning neighbour you judge probably can't believe you have 'net' curtains in all your windows!

When do we get a pic of these nice vertical blinds?

Another controversial opinion:

Nets may be elderly but vertical blinds are middle aged...

op do you have a pic of nice nets?

Vertical blinds are for offices. Bets are for 90 year olds. We have a big hedge at the front and for other rooms there is no privacy and I just don't care.

What's so bad about nets?

Horrendously old fashioned and like something out of Call The Midwife. And not in a good way.

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Not posting pictures of my actual house, sorry

My mum has these and has had them in every house she's lived since I was a kid. She takes them to pieces regularly and puts them in the washing machine! I just could not be arsed!

I sold my mum's house last year (she's in her 80s and now in a care home). I took down the many net curtains and the house looked so much brighter and happier.

What's so bad about nets?

Seriously? They look like they belong in the 1940s. They always look grubby even when they're clean and from the outside they make a house look dingy and just "grubby" I don't know how else to describe it.

I far prefer a house that has unfettered natural light coming in and with blinds you can adjust how much light comes in to your personal preference.

I thought you meant the nets that sit half way through the window. So do you have those pictures on all windows?

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