New Home - Need Window Coverings ASAP
Archives are a bit dated on this, so wanted to see if anyone has recent positive experience to share with the Costco window covering service provider (Graber), blinds.com, any of the local companies, or other service provider to handle a SLEW of window coverings including a large picture window that needs solar protection. Or how you handled dealing with a house that has no coverings from the get go. Thanks!
Oct 8, 2024
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I used selectblinds.com and blinds.com for our house. While I was waiting for those to arrive, I used command hooks to hold up curtains to cover the windows at night and when we were not home.
We've purchase both cellular shades and Roman blinds from Home Depot's "Home Decorators Collection" and have been very happy with quality, customization, and delivery.
The Shade Store is great! It’s probably not the cheapest route but they do a wonderful job.
We used blinds.com for the majority of our windows. They were really easy to order. Years later we wanted to order again and they were able to pull up our order history. We have only had 1 break but they replaced it for us for free. All the measuring and installation you do on your own, but it was pretty simple. We did 3-day-blinds for our big window and sliding doors and they were also easy to work with but more expensive.
We used blinds.com and had a pretty good experience. They were the cheapest of the options (we waited for a promotion). Happy to chat about our experience!
We had a good experience with Stoneside Blinds to cover 6 windows, including 2 sets of French doors that was a complicated installation. Everyone who comes out to your home is a Stoneside employee, not a third-party contractor, an aspect we appreciated because we took that as an indication that they treat their workers decently, the workers are professional, and the company stands by their work. In our case we needed the installer to come back to adjust a window treatment, and Stoneside scheduled him to return within a couple days and he did a perfect job. We shopped around for quotes and they were quite competitive. That, plus the quality and service (including the saving grace of not having to install the treatments ourselves) made Stoneside our choice. It’s been about a year since we worked with them and we remain very happy with their work.
Try Smith and Noble. We found them to have a good variety (not the most but certainly sufficient), and if you sign up for texts, you should get a 20 or 30% off coupon pretty quickly. They will measure the blinds for you so you know they’ll fit, but then you can choose self-install and do it quite simply with a drill to save a fair amount. We have 3 awkward arch shaped windows and they had a great solution for those.
I handled temporary window coverings with the Ikea paper cut-to-size stick on blinds. Unfortunately, the black out version works really well...which means that my bedroom still has them 2+ years later. Perhaps the recommendations you get will motivate me to find something more attractive!
One idea for some of the windows is to use a frosted glass privacy film - super cheap, super quick & easy to do and will give you privacy while you figure out what to do. It attaches to your windows with static, you just spray a bit of water on it and while one person holds it, the other uses a book or ruler to smooth it on. It comes in rolls so you can cut it to fit any window size - but small pane would be hard.
It honestly looks like your window is actually frosted glass, but they have all sorts of pattern choices. Of course you don't want this on all your windows like living room, but this means you only have to hang curtains or blinds on a couple of windows and use the privacy film on the rest while you are figuring out what you want to do because window coverings are so expensive and this is cheap. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=window+film+privacy&crid=1HXWCRKHWBQJ2&spref…