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anyone priced out faux wood 2'' blinds?
We're in the market for every window in our home... and I just wanted to check in and see if anyone had done any preliminary leg work on blinds?
tia.
Re: anyone priced out faux wood 2'' blinds?
We did.
The first house we built we did Ikea wood blinds throughout, knowing we'd be upgrading as we went along. I'd say we averaged $30/ window. DH had to trim and install them all as well. Unfortunately they looked cheap and warped pretty fast on sunny windows. We started replacing them throughout the house, and spent nearly $100/ window for a nice option.
For this house, we priced JCP, Lowes and HD. JCP's were pretty ridiculous. HD and Lowes were pretty even, and even a decent deal; Lowes was having a sale at the time. You just install. Our builder was about the same price, but they came fully installed so we went that route.
I know you can factor in amortization on putting them on your home loan, but whatev.
Did you ask their builder how much whole-house blinds were? BIL/ SIL only paid $1k for theirs through the builder! I know your DH didn't want more upgrades, but you're going to have to pay for blinds either way.
Check out justblinds.com. I have used them for our living room and love the way they look. I just ordered yesterday for 7 windows in our bedroom and gameroom and came out to only $300. They are very reasonable and look great I think!
On a side note, I was looking at your blog and noticed the granite you picked out for your countertops. We are in the process of getting ours redone and that is the exact same color I picked, Santa Cecilia! I am so excited to see how it turns out.
well... your countertops will probably be done waaaay before mine! So don't forget to share photos for me too!!
"The House We Built."
A journey of building the dream.
did you have to cut them to size? We are not handy... and don't even own tools.
"The House We Built."
A journey of building the dream.
We had a guy come out and give us a free quote last year. We have 8 windows and 4 half moon windows. For just the 8 windows he quoted us $1000. He was very nice and not pushy at all. He even recommended we stick with our paper fan half moon blinds to save money and to let in more light.
I agree with FCB...JCP was such a rip off. I went there to get a quote and even when they had 60% off the blinds it came out to more than this other company.
It's been a year since we got the quote so the price may have changed. We will definitely be calling them back up here soon to see if the prices have change and to hopefully, finally, get some new blinds.