Timber Blinds - Buying Timber Window Treatments for Your Home

If you want solid and well-made window treatments for your home, timber blinds might be the decor choice to help you.  You can buy timber blinds that suit any décor style, whether you are looking to match a rustic look, traditional or even a very sleek contemporary design in your home, wood blinds can be found that will be a perfect match and blend right in.

They are a bit more expensive that some other types of blinds, but they are also easy to clean, energy efficient and long-lasting. Timber blinds shouldn't have to be replaced if you take good care of them.

Timber blinds are especially good for rooms with high humidity, large windows, French doors and/or wooden flooring. They are also ideal to help save energy bills. Timber blinds keep 50% of the heat in the room during the winter and 87% of the heat outside in the summer so the many you save on heating and cooling your home should easily make up or exceed the extra cost of buying genuine wood blinds.

Timber blinds are mostly manufactured to accommodate various standard sizes of windows. You may use this to your advantage by simply ordering the ones that suit your windows and install them yourself, with the help of online tutorial available on the site originally sold you the products – or from Youtube.

Here's a helpful tutorial to get you started. This tutorial also helps save your money as a professional installer may not be too friendly with your budget.

Prices of timber blinds usually start at around $40 and up for blinds with 1370 mm drop and $60 and up for blinds with 2100 mm drop; both having the width of 450 mm. When you can not find ones to fit to your windows, most sites offer professional resizing service.

Since timber blinds are more costly than fabric or vinyl blinds, you want to make sure that you are getting the quality you are expecting.  Beware of inconsistent quality. If possible find buyers guide or online forums where you can get honest, first hand consumers reviews. You will find that many of the wood blinds sold on Amazon have plenty of reviews with them so they can help you narrow down your selection.

Beware also timber lookalike products made of PVC. There are many faux-wood blinds on the market that look great and you may be tempted by their lower price. But keep in mind that Timber is chosen for blinds mainly because of its quality to withstand heat.

PVC , on the other hand,  buckle under the heat especially under the heat that is generated by expansive glass windows. Concrete reflects heat as well and if your windows are situated near one, your PVC blinds may not be able to last for long and will soon warp. PVC fumes are also dangerous and PVC should definitely not be exposed to the sun.

If you do want to save money by using PVC blinds, I recommend only hanging them on windows on the shady side of the house. In the northern hemisphere, this will normally be the northern side, but it depends on local geographical features as well. Then use your genuine timber blinds where your home gets the most sunlight – usually southern-facing windows.

Once you've chose the best timber blinds for your home, you should enjoy many years of shade and energy savings, as well as beautiful looking blinds that enhance your home décor.