Would You Like Standard Or Wider Slats With Your Wood Blinds Order?

Natural Wood Blinds With 3-inch Wide Slats

Wood blinds offer a classic look and natural materials bundled in a custom-made package that always covers windows with a timeless style.

Today, let’s talk about the benefits of choosing wider-than-standard natural wood blinds with a slat width more than two inches.

The standard slat width is 2 inches for common wood blinds orders. If you have window sills deep enough to accommodate wider slats, both your view and light control will be better.

Q: Why?

A: Slats wide 2-1/2 to 3 inches increase the open space between them by 25 to 30% when compared to standard 2-inch wood blinds. When you consider traditional mini blinds with 1-inch slats (regardless of materials used), the overall view improvement is significantly superior yet.

Because the slat width is larger, the total number of them covering the window height is smaller. And since there are fewer slats with rout holes in them, the less light enters the room. So, we now have fewer slats with more space between them … and fewer light gaps letting light in through them.

Q: How about for color choices?

A: The choices of darker wood materials yet further enhance the room-darkening properties of wood blinds. Darker wood stain finishes absorb more light than they reflect inside and out. Therefore, if you are choosing wood blinds to cover your bedroom windows, darker color tones will do a better job in dimming the room light for a better sleep.

Conversely, lighter wood slat finishes are an excellent choice for areas where you want more light coming in. The wider and lighter-in-finish the slats are, the more light enters and brightens the room.

Q: Do wider slats demand more cleaning effort?

A: If you’ve ever had the chance to dust mini or micro blinds, you already know how difficult it is to get in between the narrowly-spaces slats.

That chore greatly improves with a wider slat spacing. There are obviously fewer slats to dust, and it’s much easier to get between them with an electrostatic duster wand.

With modern UV-protection finishes on wood blinds slats, it’s quite easy to eliminate dust from them with a single pass using a duster wand. Scheduling this chore on a regular basis makes keeping your wider-slats wood blinds looking new forever a snap.