If you happen to have a window arrangement like this one, discover how a customer covered her windows using real wood blinds (including a custom-made wood blinds in a high peaked window).
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Room: A Master Bedroom With A Double Patio Door And Side Windows
Besides straight up and down wood blinds, a separate order came in a wooden crate:
Have you ever wondered how the controls work on one of these? On this kind of wood blinds, there are both controls for lift and tilt. The lift cords, however, don’t get used often or not at all (since the design of the blind creates an increased friction on them).
It’s possible to lift the bottom rail to where the window sides begin to angle towards the top. To let the stack down, a pull down on the bottom rail is necessary to overcome the friction. Therefore, if the window is higher up, a ladder or a stool is needed to do that.
Majority of customers expect to use these only by tilting the slats open and closed.
To tilt of the wooden slats, a left wand tilt is used (you may choose to have a cord tilt if you wish). The connection between the two tilt bars within the headrail looks like this …
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That's How The Tilting Bars Within The Headrail
Communicate With Each Other |
How do they attach in a peaked window?
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Installation Brackets In Place And Ready
For The Wood Blinds |
The same brackets that come with a regular horizontal set up fit this installation as well. Notice the silver support brackets about halfway up the sloping sides.
(Since there are no other extra brackets to hold the split top in place, we put a screw through the bottom of each support bracket to ensure the wood blinds stay in place.)
That’s the final look for the master bedroom.
(The double patio door windows had the horizontal mini blinds built right between the glass.)
Here’s a detail – a bit closer look at the a-frame wood blinds.
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A Detailed Pic – Left Tilt/Lift Controls With
Matching Valances Covering The Metal Headrails |
Comments on Versatile Wood Blinds In A High Peaked Window
Samantha Cheshire @ 11:23 am
Can you tell me if your Versatile Wood Blinds In A High Peaked Window
can actually be raised, so the occupant can have uninterupted views.In the same way as conventional blinds. We have two clients were we have used a large peaked window and both need window solutions. Could you please email me with your answer or send me a discriptive brochure.
Thankyou.
Blinds & Shades Tips @ 12:05 pm
Hi Samantha.
With this type of wood blind, a customer can usually lift the slats only up the the angles
of the window (before the sides start to converge into the peak.
Sometimes, lifting and dropping the slats using the lift cord has a bit more resistance
than a regular horizontal blind (because of the angle the headrails have).
Also, because of the headrail angles, it's necessary to bring to cords
A LOT into the window side in order to unlock the clutch – so that the slats
would travel from up to down (as opposed to a horizontally-mounted blind where
the cords hang perpendicular to the headrail).
Depending on how the blind is made, a client can also tilt the slats … or tilt slats only.
Tilting can be done manually – cord or wand tilters… or by using a remote (remote tilt option).
We've installed these blinds made by Levolor and Hunter Douglas – that's who
makes them.