Whatever your style or taste, Blind Designs’ collection of blinds offers something to suit everyone. You may know exactly what you want – or you may need a little help. The pointers below will help establish the criteria you need to satisfy your window-covering needs.
Function
Thinking about how the room is used will point you in the right direction. Take into consideration factors like how much time you are likely to spend in the room and at what times of the day the room is occupied.
In doing so you can establish your privacy and light-shading criteria for the room. You can afford to be a little bit more adventurous with choice of design and colour of your window covering in rooms where you spend less time, or that are transient zones.
The primary functions for a window covering are:
- Decoration
- Sun control
- Privacy
It will be useful to establish the priority of these functions in your application. By understanding which features are most important to you, you’ll know which product to select. A blackout roller blind may seem appealing as it provides total privacy and sun control, however it will also cut out natural light into the room during the day.
Colour scheme
Identify the base colours that you are using to decorate your room as well as the accent colours that you are combining with. Your base colours should tend towards the neutrals and your accent colours would normally introduce colour. Your window covering would normally follow the base colour scheme, however if your room has smaller feature windows you may want to introduce some accent colours as a window covering.
Blind Designs offers a free sample service so that you can create a mood board and ensure that your blind choice matches your tile or paint colour. Simply visit the website and choose up to five samples that will be couriered to your door.
Window size
Different types of blinds will function better according to the size of the window. Venetian and Vision blinds tend to work well on smaller picture windows. A wide-format blind such as an Allusion or Ripple Shade will work well on large ceiling-to-floor applications or on doors. Roller blinds and shutters tend to be flexible across all applications.
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