Wood Venetian Blinds: Style And Practicality Rolled Into One

wood venetian blindsThere are all kinds of window blinds options to choose from; wood venetian blinds, metal and plastic blinds, rollers, vertical window shutters; you name it. But wood venetian blinds are very useful from a purely utilitarian perspective, and they can also add a real sense of style to your home. People tend to gloss over the aesthetic benefits of wood venetian blinds. In this article we will take a look at the relative merits of a few different kinds of blinds, with a special emphasis on wood venetian blinds.

Before we even get to wood venetian blinds, we need to ask, “Why not just use drapes?” Well, curtains or drapes are fine, and work well, but they are kind of limited, really. The problem is that they only have two positions, open or closed. Either you close them so that you block out the outside world entirely or you open them and allow everyone to see inside. Some people will use multiple layers of curtains; maybe a heavy curtain for night-time and a much lighter fabric just for daytime privacy, but that can get a bit cumbersome.

By comparison, a good set of wood venetian blinds does everything for you in a simple, elegant and self-contained solution. Wood venetian blinds can be closed completely, providing all the privacy of heavy curtains, lifted completely, moving them totally out of the way so that they are barely noticeable and also left in place and tilted to provide varying degrees of privacy and to allow different amounts of light to come in.

Roller blinds might seem a simpler solution, but here we get into the issue of fabric.

Fabric, whether used in drapes or rollers, has a few unfortunate properties. For one thing, if you spill or splash something on most kinds of fabric, it is a nightmare to get it out. Sometimes you have no hope of doing so. With wooden venetian blinds, this sort of thing is never really a problem, as even though there are lots of individual surfaces to clean, wood venetian blinds are usually finished with a coating that makes them a breeze to wash. Even dusting them is easy with a feather duster.

Rollers also fail when it comes to the in-between setting. You can’t really have rollers in-between up and down, unless you only want to make the top half of your window private!

What about dedicated window shutters? These are usually not far removed from wood venetian blinds, but they tend to be very inconvenient, heavy devices built right in to the windows and not an easy installation.

The beauty of wood venetian blinds is that you can just stick them into any windows you like with very little hassle.

A good set of blinds can transform your home into having a very classy atmosphere. You might try a set of white wooden blinds to lighten an already-dark room, or maybe some beautiful wood venetian blinds, made from an exotic species of tree, to add a very warm and old-fashioned feel to a living room; either way, these blinds are a great addition, and you can see for yourself how versatile they are.

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2 Responses to Wood Venetian Blinds: Style And Practicality Rolled Into One

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  2. Lisa says:

    Cooll info about Wood Venetian Blinds. This is really good when it comes to style