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When I moved in to the condo, all of the windows had working mini-blinds, as well as curtain rods but no curtains. The blinds don't provide complete privacy - there are gaps between the side of the blinds and the window, and depending on how they're angled people can still see in from above or below my unit. The blinds also let a fair amount of light into the room even when closed. Both of those reasons make the blinds less than ideal, particularly when I have guests staying overnight in my living room. So last summer I bought curtains and added them, but kept the mini-blinds in place too.
However, in the two years I've been here, the rod that control the angle of the blinds has broken on about half the blinds, so now my only options are to raise or lower those particular ones. And then, a couple months ago, two of the blinds simply broke - while I was trying to raise them, the top frame part simply cracked. So I had to take those blinds down. Now I'm trying to decide whether to simply take all the blinds down and only have curtains, or to replace the broken blinds.
The window set with the (broken) blinds removed:
The adjacent set of living room windows, with blinds still in place:
Side-by-side comparison:
Any thoughts? I'm inclined toward removing all the mini-blinds for now, I think maybe it looks better. Maybe in the future I'd get a different style of blinds, not the cheap plastic mini-blinds.
However, in the two years I've been here, the rod that control the angle of the blinds has broken on about half the blinds, so now my only options are to raise or lower those particular ones. And then, a couple months ago, two of the blinds simply broke - while I was trying to raise them, the top frame part simply cracked. So I had to take those blinds down. Now I'm trying to decide whether to simply take all the blinds down and only have curtains, or to replace the broken blinds.
The window set with the (broken) blinds removed:
The adjacent set of living room windows, with blinds still in place:
Side-by-side comparison:
Any thoughts? I'm inclined toward removing all the mini-blinds for now, I think maybe it looks better. Maybe in the future I'd get a different style of blinds, not the cheap plastic mini-blinds.
