Roman blinds offer a unique look to windows at offices. They are neat, easy to maintain and reflect a classy appearance hard to resist. Moreover they are highly efficient as well as energy savings go and are made up of eco friendly materials like bamboo, fibre or timber.
Roman blinds are the new style statements in office and residential buildings for they look great as well as have a practicality attached to them. Despite the fact that the market is flooded with curtain and blind options for shielding a room from sun, roman blinds have gained a lot of popularity. This is because these innovative blinds offer top of the line insulation that help in lowering the air conditioning and heating bills thereby saving lots of cash that normally would get drained out on electricity bills.
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These blinds are strips of thin materials normally installed from the interior side of the window in a horizontal or vertical manner. The materials from which Roman blinds are made up of vary across plastic, wood and metal sheets. That is why it is easy to manipulate these blinds for they can be operated easily and the rod holding the fabric together rolls up and down. Besides like ordinary draperies like curtains, the blinds can be easily rolled up to open the window, or released downwards to shade the room from hot sun. But unlike curtains these blinds look neat and luxurious as well as are easy to clean and have an element of sophistication attached to them.
The greatest advantage of using Roman shades is that these window blinds are timeless for they have been around since the roman era. Besides, they are available is a huge variety of fabrics which is why these shades last for years together. Besides they come in various designs and patterns like flat, looped, balloon or dog-eared for a soft and less-mechanical look. Moreover, these days, they are being made out of a huge variety of materials with timber blinds being the most popular variant in the thick roman blind category. When these timber units have a reflective backing, heat drafts are efficiently stopped from escaping out during the cold winter months. Ultimately the room temperature stays high and thereby heating costs are reduced. Some other advantages of roman blinds over ordinary window covers are as follows.
- There is flexibility in the range of materials and they also include venetian blind designs in which they are available. But regular blinds come in cloth like fabrics only.
- They are available in a huge range of colours, styles, designs and patterns. So they are in no way lagging behind regular curtains.
- Depending on the fabric selected, the cost varies making them a pocket friendly option. Besides, no fabric gets wasted unlike huge drapes in which meters of cloth is needed.
- They deliver an element of simple elegance and style alongside a neat and tidy look.
- They are available in a made to measure, ready to install form. So there is no wait period attached while installing customised roman blinds unlike tailor made drapes that takes weeks and months to get ready.
Thus roman blinds are not only elegant to look at but also deliver a unique look that is hard to obtain from regular drapes. For mixing and matching, one can install both Venetian or roman binds at home as well as curtains in different rooms. But the advantages of these blinds cannot be ignored for they have time and again proven to be highly efficient window coverings.
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About Author:-After being appreciated for years due to his work related to curtains, blinds and, carpets, the author "James Alson", has now decided to share his knowledge about roman blinds with us through this post