Creating a sumptuous expensive and look for your home can more often than not prove to be, well, expensive. The key to achieving this kind of feel without falling out with your bank manager is through accentuating the ordinary with well chosen details and accessories. Available in a variety of shades and grains, wooden blinds are an affordable way to add an element of luxury to your home. With wood being a timeless symbol of taste and decadence and blinds an up-to-date style statement, the combination of the two creates a unique and eye catching solution for window dressing.
Wooden blinds are also the perfect foil for the minimal look. Minimal is great but can sometimes look clinical and lack warmth without some natural elements. Not only will the natural wood soften a minimal look it will add some much needed texture and break up the snow storm of pure white. Cleverly, they also work in reverse. By adding wooden blinds to a traditional setting, their clean modern lines will update the feel of the room whilst still fitting in due to their wooden make-up.
Bringing the outdoors into your home is a reoccurring amongst interior designers of late. Moving to America’s Rocky Mountains and leaving the back door ajar for passing grizzly bears is one way of doing this; a much safer and certainly more design conscious method is through wooden blinds. The real beauty of them I that they allow you to choose just what type of outdoor scene you want. A blonde wood will give a very Scandinavian feel to your home. This alpine freshness is perfect for those wanting to keep rooms airy and light. Dark wood blinds on the other hand, bring all the mystery and charm of an English woodland scene whilst maintaining a modern look through the clean linear pattern of the blinds.
However the crisp, repeating pattern of the blinds is not there solely to look pretty, it actually serves a very functional purpose. The slat blinds can be angled an infinite number of ways which effectively gives you complete control over the amount of sunlight you want coming in through your WINDOWS. From full on sunlight to an indirect glow to a complete blackout, wooden blinds offer total freedom.
Sitting close the window in the recess of the sill, wooden blinds are completely ornament friendly as, unlike curtains, they don’t need to been drawn. The fact that they can be easily wiped down or pulled up to allow the window behind to be cleaned means wooden blinds are perfect for the modern lifestyle where we seldom have the time for anything more than a quick dash around the home with a cloth and a vacuum.
With wooden blinds there are no sacrifices to be made, they are both beautiful and practical, they require minimal upkeep and are both modern yet made of traditional a material. Like all blinds they are simple to hang and once up they are long lasting. Not only will they readily fit into any scheme, more often than not they will actually enhance it.
Terry Henman
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Can I use wood stain on white wooden venetian blinds?
Just had white wooden venetian blinds fitted but I hate them! want the natural wood look – Can i get natural wood stain or varnish type products to change the colour? (Yes I realise I have a very slow and messy task ahead – but I paid an arm and a leg for these blinds and have no other choice!)
Yes but you will need to strip/sand the paint off first.
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Sensible_man is correct. You will have to strip the white paint before you can use a stain. Any stripper you use might weaken the fibers in the cord used to make them open/close, raise/lower.Talk about a job!!! If you try to darken them as they are now, they’ll just look dirty. You’d be better off using paint instead. If you have 1 slat that never shows you could try it and see what you think of the results, but I’d lay odds you’ll hate it. I feel for you. Hope you find something that works for you.
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it is time consuming but it can be done,you will have loads of stain left though even just buying a litre!better to get the water based quick drying stain,if i were you id do it outside, lie it flat and as open as you can on some old newspaper ,do all the underside slats first though!
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treat them nice
treat them good
treat them how a lady should
they are ,nt made of wood
and they dont have a wooden heart.
that is if they are white.
you have no choice kid strip and bear it ugh
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I agree with the two answers…it will be a mess.
What do you hate about them? Are they too white and create a focal point? Is the window trim a dark colour? If so paint the window trim white. Maybe its time for a mini make-over….I know those blinds are pricey. Try to work with them.
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ALLDECOR Home Staging (Toronto Area, Canada)
Buy new blinds – Order them off the net BLINDS.com and this time you won’t pay a fortune
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I would try. Get an antiquing kit. The color can be applied over a previously painted surface. If the existing surface is a "plastic", it will not take stain, but you can use fibreglass "gel", that will work. Home Depot, Lowe’s, or any well stocked home improvement stores will be able to help you.
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I agree with AllDecor, these are expensive blinds and you dont want to experiment on them by trying to stain them, which could be a messy job, plus end result could be less appealing then to start with. I would suggest working with what you got. Putting dress curtains on the sides is an option.
White or ivory blinds in my opinion look very elegant.
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