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Decorating a home or redecorating the existing house, the first thing come in to mind is Blinds. In the past for traditional look interior decorator always suggest wooden blinds. But now a day the trend is changed. Thanks to faux wooden blinds. As the name suggests it is wooden blinds but mixed with man made resins like PVC, Vinyl etc. Thus faux wood blinds are perhaps the best combination of nature and man made materials. |
Every one knows that our natural resources are limited. So anything that saves or preserve is always welcome. Using faux wood blinds one can indirectly participating in saving the tree. For environment conscious, faux wood blinds is the better choice, since the materials used in faux wood blinds is recyclable.
Basically faux wood blinds was invented while searching for some cheap solution for aluminum or wooden blinds. The cost of faux wood blinds is 2 to 3 times cheaper than premium quality wooden blinds.
Recently the faux wood blinds are available in variety of different colors ranging from dark to pastel, smooth to matt finish, and different width sizes ranges from 1/2'” to 3”.
Why I should use faux wood blinds?
There are numbers of advantages and disadvantages, which you should consider before taking the decision.
First of all decide where you want to use blinds. Since every room of your house require different types of blinds. Typical house may contain Living room, one or two bedrooms, dinning room, kitchen and bathrooms. The typical requirements of bathroom is, the blind should be water resistant and should not retain the moisture, it should not warp or bend in presence of heat and moisture, It should be long lasting, color should not fade for at least 4 years and it should be cheap. Only faux wood blinds fulfill all this requirements.
Now for Bed rooms, if you are using heater or air conditioner than blind should be good thermal insulator. The faux wood blinds are very good insulator, which saves on your electricity bill. At the same time the faux wood blinds with pastel color are more suitable and enhance the romantic or cool moods, which is typical of bedrooms.
Similarly for kitchen the ideal blinds have to withstand heat and splashes of oily substances. The faux wood blinds can withstand the heat and it is very easy to clean the splashes of oily materials falling on it.
Lastly the Living room must require beautiful color blinds preferably motorized. The faux wood blinds come in many eye catching colors and motorized version is also available.
Is faux wood blinds are the solution for all my requirements?
No. You should also know the certain disadvantages of faux wood blinds.
Since they are made from mixing the wood pulp and resins, which has a higher density, the faux wood blinds are heavier than wooden blinds. Depending upon the percentages of mix and the resins used faux wood blinds are approximately 60% to 100% heavier than wooden blinds.
Since faux wood blinds are flexible in nature it may require more ropes (ladders) so it should not bend.
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