vertical blinds - just WHY?

[PolkerrisBeach]

Cannot understand the appeal of there things at all. They just scream "office". Roman blinds, roller blinds, venetian blinds, shutters - but why vertical blinds?

(But then I don't "get" a lot of stuff that a certain FB group goes in for like fablon-ing everything that moves, glitter up the tapes and a weird masking tape wall)

I loathe them but we have a large, wide square bay window. There isn't even a tiny bit of wall to fix fittings too. According to the nice blinds man who sells all sorts of blinds. It's too wide for roller blinds. There's nowhere for shutters to go, so the only flipping option is either nothing at all (& our house is on a corner with a fair number of people going up and down) so verticals were only option

Completely agree. House I've bought has these in every room and they are IDEnTICAL to the ones at work, even the colour! I am replacing them for curtains before I move in I hate them that much!

my mother LOVES hers, she always wanted them but they were too pricey! Then when dad retired they had a new house and kitted it out from scratch

every blessed room has them, even the bathroom, the window in there must only be a foot wide! forfuckingfuckssake

MIL had that awful lead-lighting diamond pattern thing on her windows, vertical blinds and horizontal striped curtains all on the same window. It was like lines going every which way and just awful.

When we moved in here the whole house was magnolia walls and white vertical blinds. Luckily it took five minutes to get all the blinds down. (Bit longer to eradicate the magnolia).

Sometimes they're necessary, our extension the kitchen window was at 90 degrees to next doors one. Since we were the ones who extended, we have vertical blinds angled away from their window so they don't feel like we will be looking into theirs from ours.

I agree- just hideous!

Why don't they do them in multicoloured Ines? It's always boring oatmeal or grey

I can't stand them either but they were a necessary evil in front of large, wide, patio doors.

Oh dear, I just ordered a replacement vertical as the original wasn’t opening and closing properly, though I do really like shutters but they wouldn’t suit our property.

I hate them. They are beyond ugly and very impractical. I don't understand how anyone can look at them and think wow, what a grant idea, they will be perfect in a domestic setting.

Needed a cheap solution for a teenagers room with a huge, wide east facing window. £60 job done. Sometimes you just have to go functional.

Agree - they are so naff. I'd rather have no window coverings. In fact, none of our ground floor windows or doors have any coverings.

My dd always says “ why do they want their house to look like the dentist?

You can get colours and patterns other than beige

why do they want their house to look like the dentist

We don't - but we live on a street with a high footfall (school at end of street) and don't want everybody looking in. Roller blinds would only cover half the window if we wanted to let light in. Shutters would just look wrong on a house of this age. And I absolutely hate venetian blinds, I grew up with those horrible things.

I must be the only person who works in an office with roller blinds on its huge windows, and lives in a house with vertical blinds; and thinks that both are good for the windows they cover.

We have moved into a house that has vertical blinds. I can't justify replacing them when they are still functional, I do have to confess though that we replaced the ones in the kitchen (broken) with the same. I wanted a roller blind but the windows are small top openers and a roller blind would block the air flow - and you need the blinds closed due to the sun in the afternoon.

The other new ones - or room and dd's room we have put roller blinds in - that leaves verticals on the stairs/landing, utility room and both bathrooms (but 2 windows in each) - the bathroom ones are a kind of plastic material though.