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Blinds headache!

S Z
last year

Hi guys! It’s winter and the heating is on - I moved into this house in the summer so have only just realised this dilemma - my curtains are all long and all my windows have radiators underneath. I hate short curtains so I guess it’s blinds for me - however my windows don’t have much of a recess so do these have to all be installed outside the recess?

I was hoping to add cornicing but the windows are so high already - I guess having a blind outside of the recess will eat up into that room above too.

Any ideas on what blinds would suit these windows? I’m thinking Roman blinds? This is the living room but my bedroom has an identical one. The other side of the house has more of a recess so I can fit some inside if I wanted.

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  • Sonia
    last year

    All my Roman Blinds sit outside the recess and I think they look fine.

    Comments (10)

    • siobhanmcgee90
      last year

      Agree Roman blinds outside the recess would be perfect.

    • User
      last year

      It's autumn, not winter. Yes to Roman blinds 😉

    • Eileen Nixon
      last year

      Try shutters, shouldn’t be too expensive for a small window.

    • Carol Cahill
      last year

      You could try perfect fit blinds also known as intu blinds or directories blinds. 

      They fit into the window frame and don't take much light off. They are easy to fit. We've had these a few years now and they've  been a great solution.

    • Carol Cahill
      last year

      It should have said directorder blinds.

    • User
      last year

      I have both perfect fit and intu blinds. They are different. Intu don't have the external frame

    • stephandwayne
      last year

      We have perfect fit pleated thermal blinds- don’t take up much space on the window frame and keep in the heat well.

    • angiecad
      last year

      Roman blinds outside the recess are fine. If you hang them quite high above the window they don’t cut out the light when they are open.

    • PRO
      The Living House
      last year

      Hi S Z, roman blinds would work well, they look smart and are timeless. You could opt for a self stack rather than a waterfall stack it would block less light.


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