Wooden Venetian Blinds - A Classic Luxury Look

In the last 10 years wooden venetian blinds have become very popular. There are a number of reasons for this.

Firstly they combine perfectly with hard wood floor and laminate flooring. If you are going for the natural wood look then it makes sense to finish a room off with a wood blind.

Secondly this type of blind gives you huge control over privacy and light. You can use the pull cord to raise and lower the blind. I strongly recommend you only use the raise control for when you need to open a window or clean it.

What most people do is leave the blind down and just tilt the horizontal slats to the desired angle.

All the products that we supply are made from controlled forestry renewable sources. You can rest assured that the wood used is not part of the rain forest destruction we hear so much about.

Most wood slat blinds are made from basswood and stained to the different wood colours. You can also buy a range of painted wood slat venetian blinds. The most popular of these colours is white.

As well as the basswood blinds there is another Vogue range made of very lightweight polar wood. This means that you can have a single blind up to 3 metres wide. Because of the light weight slats the blind is still east to raise with the pull cord.

There are a select range of wooden venetian blinds that are made from the real wood. For example we have a Cedar wood slat and an Ash wood slat. These top of the range wood venetians are beautiful and unfortunately very expensive.

The 4 main slat sizes are 25mm, 35mm, 50mm and 64mm shutter style. Not all woods are available in all the sizes so that sometimes will dictate which slat you can have. Its best to have the right colour slat chosen first and then decide which slat size you would like.

Warping can be a problem in humid conditions. You really have to take on board the fact that eventually some of the slat will warp to some degree. Wood being a natural product is not predictable. We do not recommend using real wood blinds in bathrooms for this reason. Instead we have a small range of "Wood style" blinds that look like wood but are in fact Plastic made to look like wood.

Cleaning is easier with the larger size slats as you can get a duster between them easily. Ostrich feather dusters are by far the best type to use. You can also use a damp cloth to clean them if they are really dirty.

To finish off the look of the blind there is a valance piece that covers the top box and the brackets.