Vertical Blinds Buying Guide

Blinds are a great style option for any home. They offer a great way for blocking out natural light, improving the overall aesthetics of a room, while providing ample privacy. There’s many styles available as well, with one popular option being vertical blinds.

Vertical blinds are popular because they are made specifically for a room, meaning they will be measured to fit your home, ensuring they are a perfect fit for any room. As a result, they are one of the few blinds that cannot be bought ready made.

How they work …

Vertical blinds are designed to provide more control over the amount of natural light allowed to pass into a room. They are quite popular and are easily recognised by the long vertical strips of fabrics, often called vanes, which make up the blinds.

They are installed by fitting horizontal rails above the widow frame, which the vanes are then hung from. The vanes can be made to measure at various heights, so you can easily have them made to fit almost any window frame, being a popular option for patio windows.

A chain at the end of the blinds is used to control the vanes. They can be adjusted to many different angles, allowing you to control exactly how much light is allowed to pass through into the room.

Styles …

The vanes that make up vertical blinds come in a variety of styles and fabrics. This allows you to choose from many materials, colours and textures, as well as the ability to choose the thickness of the vanes.

These blinds can vary from basic materials that are plain coloured, to more intricate designs and textured fabrics, such as weaved, printed, and embossed vanes. The fabric can even be treated to provide metallic and PVC finishes, so there really is limitless style options when it comes to vertical blinds.

Even the rail can enhance the style of vertical blinds. For example, if you were to opt for a contrasting rail colour as opposed to a matching rail, you achieve a more visually striking style of blind that really stands out.

Advantages …

Vertical blinds are great for offering more precise control over the amount of light entering a room. As the vanes can be titled to sit at many different angles, they allow you to have different levels of light streaming through as well as having the option to have them completely open.

Additionally, vertical blinds are a great option for homes with large windows, especially floor to ceiling windows and patio doors. This is because they hang as low as needed, so can cover the entire window to prevent any daylight streaming through while also providing ample privacy when drawn.

They are also very simple to use! There’s a chain or cord at one end of the blinds that allow you to open/close them as well as titling the vanes to specific angles.