Vertical blinds can match everything in your home. No matter how formal the room is, or how casual, you’ll be able to find the perfect style and color.
Vertical window blinds have been around for over sixty years and they have never lost their popularity. When they were first introduced, they made a major style improvement in many urban and suburban homes as wives by the hundreds threw out their old roller shades and installed these new blinds that looked better and allowed more light to shin through.
They come in many materials from plastic to bamboo, but the plastics are the most common. They are the lowest price and the easiest to clean. Households with pets and kids will usually choose these, if only in common areas and the kids’ rooms.
Cleaning is easy. A regular dusting with specially designed long arm dusters makes it simple. For dirt, grime, and even simple finger prints, clean up is a breeze with a few squirts of any common household cleaner, or even a damp cloth. Staining is virtually impossible.
Expensive custom made vertical window blinds tend to have material attached to a plastic backing. The material is something attached before it is delivered. If the product has been ordered along with professional installation, final assembly might not occur until the installers are preparing to put them up.
Any blinds with real material will need special cleaning solution. Some just can’t be cleaned well at all. Many come with their own bottle of solution. Before trying to remove dirt or spots, try a little on an inconspicuous area just in case the color does come out. Always ask the store where you bought them for cleaning tips. Almost all vertical window blinds in this category come with cleaning instructions and if you don’t follow these instructions, you may be voiding the warranty.
Depending on the size of the window (or door), you will usually have options on how you want them to open. For narrower openings you most likely will be limited to choices of a right or left draw, and the choice of a pulley cord or a wand (that thing that opens and closes each slat to control how much light is let in.) Larger areas such as patio doors will probably allow you to have a middle opening. In other words, when you pull them to open, they will come apart in the middle instead of one of the far reaching corners.
Many come with valances. For blinds that are being installed ‘inside’ the window frame, the valance is identical to the rest of the blinds and serves no other function than to cover the ugly top where the draw chain is seen. For blinds that are installed externally from the window frame, the valances will coordinate with the color scheme of the vertical window blinds themselves. In any case, you can always put up a valance of your choice.
If you are considering vertical window blinds for the first time, you might want to have them installed. These are quite different from hanging curtains and shades and frequently you will need odd tools and plenty of help in getting them adjusted correctly.
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