How to choose blinds?

The desire of modern man to live in comfort prompts him to invent various convenient adaptations, this comfort is providing. So, more and more popular jalousie - a special device designed to protect against sunlight, precipitation, dust, as well as to regulate the flow of air or heat.

Usually, blinds are installed on the windows facing the street. There are blinds made of special strips of material (wood, metal, plastic, cloth) - slats. By the form and arrangement of the lamellasvertical (lamellas are located vertically), horizontal, roller (roller blinds, lamellas are connected in a continuous cloth and wound on a roll) and protective (shutters) blinds.

In the home, horizontal and vertical blinds.

Going to buy blinds, you need to pay attention to a few nuances. First, it is necessary to determine: what kind of blinds will be used (depending on the overall interior solution in the apartment or office). You should remember the rule: horizontal stripes make the object visually somewhat wider than it actually is, and the vertical ones - a little narrower.

Great value in the choice of blinds has material, from which the lamellas are made. If the blinds are supposed to be placed for example in the kitchen, then it is important that the material is heat-resistant and waterproof, easy to clean. The color, variety and texture of the blind material also have a huge impact on the interior of the room.

Small rooms with small window openings are better decorate with light, light blindsto visually expand the space, making it more light.

When choosing blinds, you should also think about how, where will be installed blinds: from the inside or outside of the window. In advance it is important to consider and on which side the blinds (vertical) will move apart, whether the assembled blinds will prevent the window from opening and closing. To fix such problems after buying and installing blinds is rather difficult.

Length of blinds it is necessary to choose so that the horizontal ones do not lie on the windowsill, and the vertical ones on the floor.

The mechanism of the blind consists of several moving parts, so when choosing blinds there is a specialattention is drawn to the quality of these parts. Do they creak when moving? Are the lamellas smooth enough? Even small defects, for example, in the runner vertical blinds, are able to prevent the normal operation of the blinds.

To correctly calculate overall dimensions when choosing blinds, it is necessary to remember that:

installing blinds inside the window opening, it is necessary to subtract from the height of the opening 2 cm, so that the lamellas do not "trail" on the windowsill;