01 / Blinds
Blinds
4 lines
A blind is slats you tilt rather than fabric you raise, and that tilt is the point: you change the light without giving up the window. Four lines cover it — two wood, one aluminium, one vertical — and which one goes in a room usually comes down to how wet it gets, how wide the opening is, and what the window is worth to you.
Four slats, and the one question that picks between them.
Nobody needs all four in one house, and most houses want two. Work down this list in order and the choice usually makes itself before we get to price.
Does the room get wet?
If it is a bathroom, a laundry, or the window directly over the kitchen sink, that is faux wood or aluminium and the conversation is over. Real wood swells with repeated wetting and never sits flat again afterwards.
How wide is the opening?
Past 96" a single composite blind is heavy enough to be a nuisance to raise. Basswood carries the same slat out to 120" because it weighs a fraction as much. Past that, or on a sliding door, it is a vertical — nothing else covers a wall of glass in one piece.
Is this a room people sit in?
A 2.5" wood slat with cloth tape finishes a dining room the way no other blind does. A 1" aluminium slat in a garage is the right answer for the opposite reason. Spending on the window nobody looks at is the mistake we talk people out of most often.
Free in-home estimate
See the blinds in your own light.
We bring the sample books to your kitchen table, measure every window, and price the job on the spot. Free, about an hour — and it usually narrows 4 lines down to one.