Wood blinds are very beautiful and they offer windows a natural look, so they are quite popular among home owners. However, faux wood is starting to gain advantage over the real thing, because of several advantages, one of the most important being the price. Wooden blinds are expensive, if you want to have the top notch quality ones, like Hunter Douglas, Levolor, Kirsch, Graber or Bali are manufacturing.

Wood blinds have the advantage of being available in more colors, nuances and finishes than faux blinds. Besides, they are lighter, so hanging them doesn’t require special hardware to support a lot of weight. In the case of wooden blinds, the slat size can go from those wood mini blinds which are smaller than 1″, up to 2 1/2″ which allow better view-through and which are suitable for larger windows.

Both wood blinds and faux wood ones can be motorized, so here we could say they are equal. However, wooden ones being lighter, they put less stress on the motor, so it may last longer than in the faux wood blinds case. This is only an assumption, as I haven’t really found any studies to prove this.

Even if you can afford to buy wood blinds, the only situation in which faux wood ones are better is high humidity. Wood doesn’t go well in rooms like kitchens and bathrooms, where the moisture variations could cause the wooden slats to bend or even crack.

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