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Ok ladies, I've been having a timber venetian fantasy for a very long time! But I've noticed they're not as popular as they were about 6 years ago.
Do you have them? Do you love them or hate them? Tell me everything you know!
What about insulation (do they keep the warmth in during winter)? Light? Cleaning/maintenance? And do they still look great umpteen years later?
Personally I prefer Plantation Shutters!!
But I do have timber venetians (white) and they look fantastic!! Mine are only fairly new (2.5 years) but I only need to give them a dust once a week. Insulation is so-so.
Hi MD.....
We have timber venetians in our back family room - about 3yrs old.....
I think they're the feature of the room (3 large windows....) i love them, we always have people commenting on them. We bought ours from Curtain wonderland, so DH installed them himself.
They do get dusty, but im a slacker and rarely dust them, although recently we've extended our home yet again and the dust on these blinds were thick - so thick i did have to wipe them over......but i had to do that with everything else too.
We have timber floorboards in our home...so i feel they work well. The particular room these blinds are in gets the morning sun, and keeps it out fine.....i dunno about the cold though. Our house is cold in winter coz we have it protected so much from the sun in the summer......so cant help you there....
Good luck !
I HATE them.
You can have mine. We are getting rid of them to put other curtains up there.
Nothing wrong with them, they do get dusty though, and in this humidity - they have a tendency to get mould on them (much like everything else).
The only thing we like about them - is that we can open them for the breeze, but still not let the sun in..
Other than that - yuck. can't stand them. take them. Please!!!!! :lol:
I love mine. Got them from Spotlight and they were not to exy. They do show the dust tho - but i am slack too and never dust!!
love the look, hate the dust. AND the tapping noise when its breezy nearly drove me insane.
maybe one of those battery operated spinning duster thingys would make it easier...???
They are very poor insulators in the winter if that is an issue for where you live. I think they have a thermal rating of 0.
For summer cooling the lighter the colour of your curtains/blinds on the window side the better.
If you are thinking about the energy savings you can make with different window furnishings etc, check out this website
I love mine! I have them on every window in the house except for the bay window at the front. Ours were exxy, we spent about $5k in total for the whole house, but they're very solid. I've had them for about 3 years now and never had a problem. They can get dusty, but that's never bothered me as I dust just as often as I vaccum.
We have them through most of our house and they look great. They were installed by the people who owned it before us, we've been there 3.5 years... They do get dusty, but dusting them is easy! You just close the blind and run a dusting mitt over it, it takes no more than 30 seconds.
I used to have a client who was a blind manufacturer and they actually told me that to keep your timber venetians looking good for ever, you should oil them once a year like you would a deck or outdoor furniture. Apparently the sun etc will dry out the wood, fade it and over time lead to them cracking. We've only done ours once since we've been there (it is a pain in the butt!), we used the spray marveer wood polish and they came up like new, but haven't bothered to do it since...
Love the look
hate the amount of light they let in when closed, they are poor insulators, they make an annoying tap tap sound if the window is open, they get dusty,
dd 1 broke the ends off the middle and lower pieces when she was 18 months was 'asleep' in her cot when we heared crack, crack, crack and came in to find bits of the blinds in her cot and a sheepish look on her face, needless to say we then moved the cot
we replaced all our blinds with cutrains bar the ones in the bathroom. The curtains are much better at keeping the light and heat out and I cant see the dust on them yet
Ours are held down at the bottom of the window and we've never had them swaying the wind. And ours hardly let any light in at all. Probably why my girls sleep in rather late in the mornings. But ours are very sturdy.
The previous owner put them in & I like them but think they would be better in the 'informal' areas of the house.
Aparently the best way to dust them is with an Ostrich Feather duster??
Like the look of them, but hate all the rest that goes with them. I found them a pain to dust no matter what I used and I also hated the banging of them when the window was open. I will never get them again.