New Blinds!

My birthday present from the 'rents was money to put towards new blinds for my living room. If you've been in my house, you know how desperately they were needed. The old blinds were poop-brown, plastic, and falling apart. I replaced them with cellular blinds, that are an off-white color... and CORDLESS! Not only do they look a lot better, but my living room is a lot brighter now, too, which always used to be a problem.

Anyway, we ordered the blinds right around my birthday, the arrived a couple weeks later, and now we have them all installed! Here we are with only one blind installed, so you can see the difference between the old (on the left) and the new. Another huge difference is that these blinds are inside-mounted so you can see more of the awesome woodwork:




Two blinds!

John just finished the wall of four windows tonight, so I haven't uploaded any pictures of those, but... well, they look just like those two windows there, but imagine four side-by-side instead of two :)

They look REALLY good from the outside, especially at night. I almost missed pulling into our driveway earlier tonight because we were oohing and ahhing about how good they looked :)

And, if you're ever planning on getting blinds yourself. I recommend paying to have someone measure them, but installing them yourself. If I had done my own measurement, I would have apparently measured the wrong thing (my windows are more complicated than newer houses, though, I'm sure). But the installation? 4 screws per blind and no exact measuring. The measuring cost us only $35, but they wanted over $100 for installation. For four screws per blind! No thanks.