The Bali wood vertical blinds series is one of the most exquisite blackout window treatments ever. Wood looks good, it gives a certain warmth to a room, and that’s why many people prefer it to cheaper PVC solutions. The wood vertical blinds from Bali are surely expensive, but if you can afford them, they are an excellent way to cover patio doors or wide windows. When closed, these blinds provide total darkness, therefore they are suitable for home theater rooms or for conference halls.

The wood vertical Bali blinds are available in 15 stain touches such as Brandy, Dark Walnut, Maple, Regal Oak, Rustic Lodge or Wheat. Additionally, you can choose from any of the 7 paint finishes possible: Antique White, Birch White, Designer White, Pure White, Snowflake, Stark White or White Cotton. Unfortunately, Bali doesn’t provide free color samples for this line of products. However, if you need to see them, you can go to a retailer. This would be the way to go if you’re really interested in buying such blinds. Of course, you can see them on Bali’s website, but the shades of color always depend on the monitor settings, and may not reflect the reality.

Bali wood vertical blinds can have the vane stack position of your choice, either left or right or both sides, case in which they would open in the middle.

The valance style can be either traditional or a more contoured model called “Eloquence Valance”.

Cut-outs in your wood blinds are also possible, in case you need to fit them around architectural elements, window cranks, heaters or any other such obstacles.

We’ve talked a while back about sliding glass door window treatments, and the example I’ve chosen by that time to illustrate my point was the Hunter Douglas Duette 3/4″ Single Cell Sheer with Vertiglide Side Stack, which feature excellent insulation without the drawback of being opaque like other insulating window coverings are.

That article seemed to be appreciated by our readers, as we’ve got a lot of questions, mostly about other products in the Hunter Douglas sliding door treatments range.  We thought a brief overview of these blinds would be an excellent way to help you make yourself a better picture of your possible choices, if budget is not your main concern.

First of all, you need to know that actually there’s no special product line in the Hunter Douglas portfolio, targeting exclusively sliding glass doors. It’s just a specialty shape, or a design option, call it what you like, which aims at helping their customers understand better what they can create in terms of interior space design and decorating. These are the Hunter Douglas shadings that are suitable for covering sliding glass doors, as described on their official website:

• Silhouette window shadings
• Duette Architella honeycomb shades
• Duette honeycomb shades
• Luminette Privacy sheers
• Luminette Modern draperies
• Vignette Modern Roman shades
• Pirouette window shadings
• Skyline Gliding window panels
• Alustra Silhouette window shadings
• Alustra Duette honeycomb shades
• Alustra Luminette Privacy sheers
• Alustra Vignette modern Roman shades
• Alustra Woven Textures
• Alustra Woods
• Alustra Modern Precious Metals
• Nantucket window shadings
• Applause honeycomb shades
• Park Lane Privacy sheers
• Designer roller shades
• Designer screen shades
• Provenance Woven wood shades
• Brilliance pleated shades
• Heritance hardwood shutters
• NewStyle hybrid shutters
• Palm Beach polysatin shutters
• Country Woods Expose blinds
• Country Woods Genuine Woods blinds
• Country Woods Select blinds
• Country Woods Reflections blinds
• Country Woods Classics blinds
• Chalet Woods wood blinds
• EverWood 2″ blinds
• EverWood X-tra blinds
• WoodMates blinds
• Reveal with MagnaView
• Macro aluminum blinds
• Lightlines aluminum blinds
• Decor aluminum blinds
• Celebrity aluminum blinds
• Cadence Soft vertical blinds
• Somner custom vertical blinds
• Crosswinds wood vertical blinds
• Vertical Solutions Select

As you can see, there are plenty of choices, from sheer, transparent coverings to wooden blinds, which are extremely elegant and which can integrate very well into a classic interior design. You can find details about each of the above mentioned sliding glass door window treatments on the Hunter Douglas website. Maybe we are going to review some of them for you in our future articles.

Hillary’s Venetian blinds are made of high quality aluminum, specially treated to prevent UV degradation, meaning that their color doesn’t fade or change with time. This is an important edge especially if your windows are exposed to sunlight for more than a few hours a day. For example, if your windows are facing South, it’s most probable that they benefit a lot from the daylight, as they are almost never in the shadow. On the contrary, rooms with windows facing North will be the darkest in a home, so you may not need special, expensive window treatments, because sun and UV rays won’t cause too much damage.

One of the qualities Hillary’s take pride in when it comes to their Venetians is versatility. Besides the possibility of choosing between four widths of slats, 15 mm, 25 mm, 35 mm and 50 mm, you can easily match them with your furnishings, thanks to the wide array of fabric colors and shades available. For instance, one of the best choices for a bedroom are the Blue Venetian Hillary’s blinds, because of the tranquility they suggest and because of their good level of privacy, yet letting enough light into the room. Another aspect of the versatility of these horizontal blinds is the possibility to fit them to skylight and roof windows.

Pricing can be determined only after discussing with a Hillary’s blinds consultant, because all their window treatments, awnings and shutters are made to measure and they come with a large choice of control options, trims, poles or other accessories. This is why a price given before knowing more details wouldn’t be too exact. There’s an example on Hilarys blinds official website: a lady who paid as little as 144 pounds, which is probably less than $300 for Venetian blinds for her dining room, kitchen and bathroom. There are no details on how big her windows were, but yet you can make yourself an idea of what would it mean to buy Hillary’s Venetian blinds for your windows.