Faux Blinds?

[Isocene]

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[DayLaPaul]

Because not everything is cheaper online? I think the main advantage of buying online is getting those custom sizes and lengths that Home Depot doesn't carry.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

home depot can customize it for you. Just give them the measurements of the entire sill, and they'll cut it for you (top/mid/bottom widths..etc)

 

[nickbits]

If you buy stock size blinds they are cheap. If you get custom sizes they are expensive. The online place you referenced is for custom blinds. If you do custom blinds at home depot they are much more expensive.

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: nickbits
If you buy stock size blinds they are cheap. If you get custom sizes they are expensive. The online place you referenced is for custom blinds. If you do custom blinds at home depot they are much more expensive.

This. If Home Depot has the sizes you want/need in stock, then that is the way to go. If you have non-standard sizes or strange shapes (circles, ovals, rhombus) then it gets really expensive, really fast. Plus, different brands of blinds are of different quality.

I just spent $3600 on blinds for 8 windows and 4 french doors. I bought Hunter Douglas Honeycomb Duettes, and they turned out great. One thing that people forget when buying a brand new home is that generally they don't come with blinds...

 

[Miramonti]

Home depot and lowes have a couple options of faux blinds that they have instock and and will cut for you at no charge. I highly recommend their 2" faux blinds with the $118 installation package. It costs $35 to come and measure all windows, which is applied to your purchase, and then the $118 to come and install them all after the local store cuts them to spec.

 

[TruePaige]

I hate those fakers walking around with their dog and cane just so they don't have to leave Fido in the car at Wal-Mart. =/

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: jjsole
Home depot and lowes have a couple options of faux blinds that they have instock and and will cut for you at no charge. I highly recommend their 2" faux blinds with the $118 installation package. It costs $35 to come and measure all windows, which is applied to your purchase, and then the $118 to come and install them all after the local store cuts them to spec.

If you are even remotely handy with tools, installing blinds should be pretty easy....

once you have home depot/lowes cut them, you just install two brackets and slide the blind housing and snap the brackets shut...

 

[Isocene]

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[Isocene]

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[Fritzo]

HD sells a bagillion more blinds than any individual dealer. Who do you think will have the quantity discount going for them?

 

[Isocene]

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[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Originally posted by: jjsole
Home depot and lowes have a couple options of faux blinds that they have instock and and will cut for you at no charge. I highly recommend their 2" faux blinds with the $118 installation package. It costs $35 to come and measure all windows, which is applied to your purchase, and then the $118 to come and install them all after the local store cuts them to spec.

If you are even remotely handy with tools, installing blinds should be pretty easy....

once you have home depot/lowes cut them, you just install two brackets and slide the blind housing and snap the brackets shut...

Doesn't sound like you've done an entire house before. It's a process that's made easier by them measuring and being accountable for the measurements (top and bottom of window frames must be measured), them dealing with the store to get the blinds cut, getting the boxes back labeled for the right room, them dealing with the unpackaging and disposal of garbage. Also, numerous windows will be large and require 3 or 4 brackets etc, which takes more aligning correctly, back door vertical blinds take a little more time to set up.

Its not difficult to do it, but its very time consuming and tedious to do an entire house and is well worth the $118 to have everything done from start to finish by someone who does it for a living.

Originally posted by: Isocene
Home depot could charge almost the same price and I would go with them because it's around the corner rather than alone. Half the price just baffles me. I don't pretend to understand economics!

I found HD and Lowes the cheapest as well. Usually not many windows are only 23" wide (only our bathroom windows were that narrow) but even so the bottom level blinds (like the standard 2" faux wood) will be cheaper there than online.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Originally posted by: jjsole
Home depot and lowes have a couple options of faux blinds that they have instock and and will cut for you at no charge. I highly recommend their 2" faux blinds with the $118 installation package. It costs $35 to come and measure all windows, which is applied to your purchase, and then the $118 to come and install them all after the local store cuts them to spec.

If you are even remotely handy with tools, installing blinds should be pretty easy....

once you have home depot/lowes cut them, you just install two brackets and slide the blind housing and snap the brackets shut...

Doesn't sound like you've done an entire house before. It's a process that's made easier by them measuring and being accountable for the measurements (top and bottom of window frames must be measured), them dealing with the store to get the blinds cut, getting the boxes back labeled for the right room, them dealing with the unpackaging and disposal of garbage. Also, numerous windows will be large and require 3 or 4 brackets etc, which takes more aligning correctly, back door vertical blinds take a little more time to set up.

Its not difficult to do it, but its very time consuming and tedious to do an entire house and is well worth the $118 to have everything done from start to finish by someone who does it for a living.

Originally posted by: Isocene
Home depot could charge almost the same price and I would go with them because it's around the corner rather than alone. Half the price just baffles me. I don't pretend to understand economics!

I found HD and Lowes the cheapest as well. Usually not many windows are only 23" wide (only our bathroom windows were that narrow) but even so the bottom level blinds (like the standard 2" faux wood) will be cheaper there than online.

I'm with you there. Our new house has 32 windows. No way in hell was I going to hang all of those. A crew of 4 people from HD came in with special tools and had it done in an hour.

I would have had 2 done in an hour. Some of those blinds are complicated to put together- especially the Roman shades with their collapsing fabric. Well worth the cost.