Blinds, and curtains??

[middleagedandinarage]

Not sure if i'm posting this in the right place but opinions please.
We built a new house around 10 years ago, money was tight after the build so just bought some supermarket curtains to put up in the bedrooms. Now looking at investing in decent blinds, getting a company to come measure and proper clip in black out ones. I've taken it in my head that curtains and blinds are a bit dated and thinking just get good blinds and do away with the curtains/poles. Will it look silly with no curtains?

In our previous house we had shutter blinds fitted and got rid of our curtains.
Big mistake. There was light bleed through the shutter blinds and we disliked the cold, bare look of uncurtained windows

In our new (NB) house we have both blinds & curtains and are much happier.
Shutter blinds at all windows (excluding bathrooms) and then either curtains or roman blinds made with thick, heavy material and blackout lining. We can turn every room into darkness and they insulate brilliantly (Dunelm M2M for curtains & blinds).
Not cheap but IMO well with it.

We have perfect fit blinds on the patio doors, with curtains for extra insulation in the colder months. We also have day and night blinds, roller blinds in the bathrooms, kitchen and utility and Roman blinds everywhere else.

We've got a mix, blackout Luxaflex Duette blinds in the window recesses and then either curtains or roman blinds on the outside recess. The blinds alone are very stark, and don't give you any sound insulation in the room.

Where I live it seems like every single property has suddenly changed to those vertical blinds, the ones that you used to see in offices. They are everywhere here now. It must be the new "fashion" .

Like @Nourishinghandcream we had shutters replacing curtains and I hated them. As said, they made the room look stark and cold - no “clean lines” - and worse, the light leaked through which defeated the object of them. Who wants to be woken early by the sunrise at 4 am or have the heat of summer sun leaking through?

Once my beleaguered DH had managed to build a frame around our bay window, we put up curtains and it instantly looked better and framed the windows and the room, plus the two gave insulation against heat and light

I'm not keen on just blinds, as personally I think it can look a bit bare - the exception is in a bathroom/toilet or in our current home at the staircase window. The previous owner had curtains at the staircase window which looked ridiculous imo.

As for those vertical ones...shudder!

We're currently renovating and so far the rooms we've done have blinds plus curtains, interlined and blackout lined for heft and light blocking (bedrooms) and just curtains, again interlined and blackout lined (living rooms). All the curtains are full length.

I make our curtains, theoretically to save money, but in reality the fabric isn't cheap as according to DH I have expensive tastes 🤣

Thanks everyone, okay so blinds and curtains is the general 👍🏻

Yes definitely both. Blinds on their own look very stark unless it’s a tiny window.