Dicko&Vacant

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i NEED your help please!!!!

We are moving soon, and our new windows are huuuuuuuuuuuge in the front room, im being organised and ive measured up so i can get the blinds before we move in, 1 less thing to buy and all that, the problem ive got is the price of the buggers

Bay window is 195cm drop ( thats top of glass to bottom, excluding frame and sill )

Windows are 66cm each side and 132cm in middle.

I need some inspiration as to what will look good on the windows.

I hate nets with a passion, vertical blinds remind me of doctors surgeries, ive narrowed it down to wooden venetians ( we already have these but they wont fit the new window typically ) Colonial roller blinds,roman blinds or plain edged roller blinds, with curtains to finish the effect off.

Its a victorian terrace so i want to keep the period features as far as possible, but with a bit of modern in our furniture.

The lounge has the original plaster coving and a quite big ceiling rose ( not an awful one may i add ) and we are thinking of putting the picture rail back up to break it up a bit as ceilings are 10ft

So if anyone has a bay window can you please put some pics up of what youve got on your windows

PLEASE

Sarah

Christian and Beccy

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We've got vertical blinds in our bays. Will try and take a pic.

Dicko&Vacant

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thanks, i may change my mind about them if they look good i just think they suit flat windows more than bays, but its the inside that ultimately counts to me, couldnt care less if it looks pants outside, i dont sit there

Cheers

Dicko&Vacant

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anyone have bay windows in this day an age

turbo_3dr_tommy

What about roman blinds? there nice but no good if you want to stop people looking in as the walk past!

we have verticals to just coz

Dicko&Vacant

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ive put roman blinds on the list, just want some pics of em in bay windows so i can see how theyll look

turbo_3dr_tommy

What about roman blinds? there nice but no good if you want to stop people looking in as the walk past!

we have verticals to just coz they were there wen we moved in!

u can see them on this pic from the outside but havent got any from the inside

Dicko&Vacant

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they look ok in a small window, but with the windows being huge i dunno if itll look right?

turbo_3dr_tommy

sorry dont know wat happened to that last post?

u can sort of see them here please ignore the horrible decor i havent had time or money to change it i just close my eyes lol

turbo_3dr_tommy

i like this??

http://www.b4i.ie/images-alternate/w...bay-window.gif

Mrs T

i love wooden venetians they should look really nice

Spiky

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i have a 1920's house with LARGE bay windows

i did have netting and curtains before

now i have vertical blinds and curtains(that i dont close)

Dicko&Vacant

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any pictures????

http://www.b4i.ie/images-alternate/w...bay-window.gif

i like that pic of the white blinds i was thinking of dark wood but that looks gorgeous, i wouldnt want the pvc venetians though as they look too cheap

hmmmmmmmm ill have to have a look see what i can find

Dicko&Vacant

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just found a website that will do the white wooden ones made to measure for £150

that sounds like a good deal to me, just leaves other 2 windows at front upstairs, but they aint that important yet lol

Spiky

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this any good for you???

Dicko&Vacant

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thats great, thanks a lot

our window isnt a recess like yours, the full bay goes all the way to ceiling

do me a favour, get some more tomorrow when theyre open

thanks

Spiky

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will do be a better picture too, as it's a bit dark now

4x4 ste

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But please be carefull with cheap wooden venetians as they can pretty much warp within hours and all wooden venetians will come with a disclaimer saying there a natural product and it happens and there is nothing you can do about it.

Even the most expensive ones come with this disclaimer, But the more you pay the better the wood and the less chance of it happening ect.

Hope this helps, Steve

There are some pics on Stu's thread here.
https://passionford.com/forum/showth...d+professional

Dicko&Vacant

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cheers for that ste

dojj

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go to ikea
buy some blinds in different widths
cut them to length
fix
job jobbed

Dicko&Vacant

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ive already looked, they dont do any to the right length theyre all too short typically

Sarah

Dicko&Vacant

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btt

Thrush

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Dicko&Vacant

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thanks for that

dojj

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how short is too short?
they do fairly lenghty lenghts of blinds,, and you always have the option of extending them if you are good with a bit of string

i'll put up some pics of mine that i unpreffesionally installed to show you what they shouldn't look like if you get a man in to fix them up for you


the other option is, i think, stu had a fella come round and do his blinds dind't he?

or am i thinking about the wrong person here?

foreigneRS

if you read the thread properly, you'll know that you are right

dojj

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aha, i knew it was someone i'd heard discussing it at some point, so i guessed right

yay me

Dicko&Vacant

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actually i retract my statement, the ikea ones are long enough, just a bit unsure how i would go about adjusting the width, as the nearest measurements are
140x250 ( window is 133 x 195 )
80x250 ( window is 66 x 195 )

and they work out a lot cheaper than i originally thought.

I should really read things properly

Sarah

foreigneRS

you can get a special pair of blind scissors to cut each panel down. you can use normal scissors, but the special ones leave a rounded corner

dojj

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you can buy the ikea ones and trim down the sizes ratehr than add more onto the edges

then it's just a case of unknotting the cords and adjusting the number of slate you need to do a full drop and then trimming the cords to the desired lengths

simple really, the biggest problem we had was putting holes in the walls to fix them into position

use a chop saw to cut them down to the desired width as it's the easiest and cleanest method of doing so rather than with a handsaw or jigsaw

coziboy

if you want advice ask and ill do my best to help

Dicko&Vacant

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i will need some help trimming the blinds width to fit i know that, just hoping that the cords arent too close to edge or i wont be able to adjust em

Sarah