More on window treatments : should they match?

[ktzmoh]

Do you all think window treatments should match throughout the house?

Would it be weird to have plantation shutters in one room (living room) and blinds in all the other rooms? I think it wouldbe - and that we need to go whole hog or nothing with the plantation shutters - that the house should be consistent (though we could obviously add differnt color/style curtains to different rooms to spice it up). But H says he thinks it's fine to do different treatments in different rooms.

Thoughts?

[cajungal]

I think it's fine as long as the rooms aren't open to each other. Around here, a lot of homes have plantation shutters on the front windows only or maybe front windows + family room due to cost. We saw a lot of houses like that, and they looked fine.

[Susie]

I don't think they need to match.  On the main floor, I have panels in two rooms, a roman shade in another, etc.  I have considered plantation shutters, but only for one.

[wawa]

I don't think they need to match.

I think it'd look odd to have high end plantation shutters in one room and then cheapass mini-blinds in the next room - but as long as the feel of the treatments chosen flows from room to room then I don't see why you can't change it up.

[ktzmoh]

Feb 11, 2013 15:53:56 GMT -5 wawa said:

I don't think they need to match.

I think it'd look odd to have high end plantation shutters in one room and then cheapass mini-blinds in the next room - but as long as the feel of the treatments chosen flows from room to room then I don't see why you can't change it up.

LOL! I'm going to use this with H. Because this is exactly what we'd have. We'd blow our budget on shutters for one level and be stuck with the existing cheapass miniblinds upstairs because we can't afford nicer blinds or shades anymore!

Ok, so I guess it's not a big deal to change it up - but I still think I prefer to do some kind of blinds for the whole house rather than do a couple of our windows with shutters leaving the other windows alone.

[wawa]

Feb 11, 2013 15:57:41 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

Feb 11, 2013 15:53:56 GMT -5 wawa said:

I don't think they need to match.

I think it'd look odd to have high end plantation shutters in one room and then cheapass mini-blinds in the next room - but as long as the feel of the treatments chosen flows from room to room then I don't see why you can't change it up.

LOL! I'm going to use this with H. Because this is exactly what we'd have. We'd blow our budget on shutters for one level and be stuck with the existing cheapass miniblinds upstairs because we can't afford nicer blinds or shades anymore!

Ok, so I guess it's not a big deal to change it up - but I still think I prefer to do some kind of blinds for the whole house rather than do a couple of our windows with shutters leaving the other windows alone.

LOL!  That's what MH wanted to do too!  Except we weren't even going to splurge as far as plantation shutters.  He wanted to do 2" white faux wood blinds on the "public" levels and then cheapass miniblinds in the upstairs bedrooms.  Dude, what?  We just did all this work...and you want to put holes in our nice new trim for the crappy plastic MINIBLINDS?  Which my cats are notorious for breaking?  Yeah...no.  I'll just show the neighbors my naked ass until we find room in the budget for decent window treatments everywhere.

(I apologize if I've offended any mini-blind lovers.  We ripped them out of every window in our house, and my cats had destroyed half of them, so I'm disinclined to put them back in.  But I don't actually find them offensive or ugly.  Just non-functional for my house.  And many steps lower on the quality scale than plantation shutters.  They're the laminate of the window treatment world.  Functional and usually inoffensive, but that's about it.)

[tarheels]

I think the front (or whatever elevations are visible from the street) should all be the same. And I don't think it's weird to do lesser treatments elsewhere.

But have you priced plantation shutters? It was $700 per window when I got quotes in 2011.

[ktzmoh]

Feb 11, 2013 16:52:40 GMT -5 tarheels said:

I think the front (or whatever elevations are visible from the street) should all be the same. And I don't think it's weird to do lesser treatments elsewhere.

But have you priced plantation shutters? It was $700 per window when I got quotes in 2011.

I did. The rep came last week to measure and quote. Our rooms each have one very large window (as opposed to two or more smaller windows) so each room we do is in the 1K range. It's more than I want to spend. Doing just the two rooms facing the street with shutters and the rest with honeycomb shades or 2" blinds is still more than we want to spend on this project.

I'm going to pull for something nice, but not crazy spendy right now in all the rooms.

[boiler717]

I'm planning on doing plantation shutters in my office and DR (first floor, front, $1400/window quote so far (each window is about 6 feet wide)). Those will be the only plantation shutters in the house. The rest of the house will be 2" faux wood blinds or roman shades, depending on the room they are in.

[tarheels]

Feb 11, 2013 17:44:10 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

Feb 11, 2013 16:52:40 GMT -5 tarheels said:

I think the front (or whatever elevations are visible from the street) should all be the same. And I don't think it's weird to do lesser treatments elsewhere.

But have you priced plantation shutters? It was $700 per window when I got quotes in 2011.

I did. The rep came last week to measure and quote. Our rooms each have one very large window (as opposed to two or more smaller windows) so each room we do is in the 1K range. It's more than I want to spend. Doing just the two rooms facing the street with shutters and the rest with honeycomb shades or 2" blinds is still more than we want to spend on this project.

I'm going to pull for something nice, but not crazy spendy right now in all the rooms.

Oh, I misunderstood how you were arguing in your original post.  2" faux wood blinds don't have to be expensive.  These are nice and I've put them in 2 different houses.  www.walmart.com/ip/Canopy-2-Faux-Wood-Blinds-White/15435508

[perkyderky]

I think it depends on the layout of the home, the way it sits on the property, what you can see from the road, etc. The only windows you can see from our street is our living room (though we have a ranch--it's the angle of our home to the street that creates this phenomena) and we have functional curtains there. In our sunroom, the next largest room in our home (adjacent to LR), we have plantation shutters--we literally have 2 walls of floor to ceiling windows. Our kitchen doesn't have blinds at all on the windows, but in all our bedrooms we have 1 inch faux wood blinds--our 4 cats (3 of whom are technically still kittens) haven't come close to destroying them, as playful as they are. In our home, the spaces are defined and different enough that I'm OK with the varying coverings, but honestly, it's not something that I ever really thought about prior to this post either.

[teeah22]

We have shutters in the living and dining rooms and wood blinds in the rest of the house (including the upstairs rooms that you can see from the front). I never thought twice about it to be honest, they're all the same material and color so it looks cohesive.

[seriously]

I agree they don't have to match.  We have plantation shutters on our dining room window which is a triple in the front of the house and 2 1/2" faux wood blinds on all the single windows that run across the front on the second floor.  I think it looks great. 
We also have a plantation shutter in our master window, and the 2 1/2 on all the rest that are on the back and sides of the house.  We have a ton of windows!
Don't get me wrong I'd love shutters in all the windows, but that wasn't finacially feasible.