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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
talk to me about window blinds
the blinds in our house suck. we have been putting off getting new ones for a long time and i think this might have to be the year. we have just regular white horizontal blinds in all the windows, but the cords are screwed up on most of them.
i have seen 10,000 commercials for Blinds to Go and Next Day blinds but i am not sure where to even start on this. I am not looking for some top of the line designer blinds, just something that works to keep out the sun when needed
any idea what a basic set goes for? is this a few hundred bucks per window or something more?
Re: talk to me about window blinds
I have been very happy with my $15 a pop walmart bamboo blinds that are like this.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
In my experience, Blinds to Go is significantly less expensive than Next Day Blinds, and they offer basically the same thing.
The price is going to vary a lot depending on what you get, and it can get pricey if you are doing something that includes blackout fabric.
That being said, a basic set should not be too expensive. You can get free quotes from them, just measure your windows beforehand.
we used Next Day Blinds for plantation shutters in the dining room (which used to be the living room, pre-reno, and is visible from the street). They came, they saw, they measured, they installed, we = happy, still, five-ish years later.
In all of the upstairs windows, last year I went on a rampage when John was away one night and installed these on all 7 windows -- easy peasey. (may not have exactly been these, as I don't remember if I went to HD or Lowe's, but they are faux wood wide slat horizontal blinds)
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202040508/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
which is to say -- depending on what you are getting, you may not need an outside company to do this. Much cheaper to do yourselves. Also check Smith & Noble catalog -- they have beautiful stuff.
"What is a week-end?"
we got our dark wooden blinds at Home Depot (or Lowe's), just standard, nothing custom, they were $40-$45 per window and they work fine. I love the link above to the $15 blinds, though!
thanks! this is all good info. i was hoping there were cheap options and the fact $15 options exist is awesome!
i want to fix the whole window treatment in our living room. we have a sectional in there now (yay Craig's list!) and the random red curtains that came with the house are starting to annoy me (i have been working from home this week, so just in the house more than normal)
None of our windows are standard sizes (or maybe they were standard in 1961), so we have gotten our blinds from selectblinds.com. They always have a 30% off code on the website and they have free shipping.
We've ordered bamboo shades (2 kinds), fake wood blinds, and thermal fabric roller blinds from them and have been very happy. One of the roller blind assemblies was messed up and they sent us a new one within days, and that's the only problem we've had.
They've been easy to measure based on their directions and installation was simple.
I am actually ordering 4 more soon - we are getting more fake wood blinds for our guest bedroom, a bamboo shade for DS's room and a thermal roller blind for our TV room.