We have blinds now! No more cheap fan-folded self-adhesive paper blinds, and no more brown paper taped to the windows!
(In other news, I need to start taking quality photos again instead of relying on the iPhone for everything.)
I’m SO glad that we ended up just ordering through a local company who included installation in their price. They only charged about $200 more than we would have spent ordering from one of the many online sites, and that extra $200 was well worth the cost since they arrived and, with only 2 people, finished the entire house in under an hour and a half. That’s 22 windows, many of which are quite large. I know we could have done it ourselves, but I also know it would have taken a lot longer — not to mention some trial and error to figure out where to drill the holes, how to attach the blinds to the brackets, etc.
And now we have blinds, which really makes the house look more REAL, and less like a temporary abode. The only downside is that they smell. Seriously, the blinds STINK. Something about the paint they use, but they seriously smelled like natural gas when they first pulled them out of the plastic. We went out to dinner to escape the smell and thankfully by the time we returned they had aired out and it was hardly noticeable.
Stinky blinds. Did not expect that.
its funny, i live in a nice crime free suburban street, my house backs up to other houses and my backyard is surrounded by a 6 ft privacy fence.. yet at night when my shades aren’t drawn I get totally creeped out that someone is looking in.
another thought, i am not sure how your windows open. but on a couple of mine, the latches for the windows in the unlocked position will get caught in the horizontal blinds when you lift them up. it caused me to crack a slats. anyway, just watch out.