What is the correct way to close your blinds?
Method A
Method B
I feel quite strongly about this.
Method B for aesthetics
Method A when the sunlight is putting lines across your screen.
Depends. Are you expecting attack from the air or from the street?
Depends what you want to achieve. Normally A.
B will let more outside light in though.
Depends. A to block the most light, B for a bit of shading without blackout. Both are valid but I would tend to use A
B for me. looks better so thats what you should see on the inside, same as curtains.
Also, B shows all the dust.
B
I’m a B person. Might try A though
Upper or ground floor? Upper use B as it stops people seeing in but lets light in.
A in a basement flat when people look down into your bedroom
B when you want a bit of light and privacy from street level
However my personal favourite was open and then stroke the bottom third into A so you get sunlight from the top half and no one can peer in from the street!
Method B with privacy no hole blinds
Method A when I need there to be as little light as possible, method B for looks and realising that invariably yet again I need to clean the blinds, and isn't it time I just got some curtains, like I always said I would.
B looks neater and more importantly saves a domestic
B. How is this even up for debate?
C: neither, cellular blinds that don’t have slats/cords etc
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/hoppvals-cellular-blind-white-10290626/
Surely this is one for the office facilities staff to decide ?
The opposite to the way the wife wants them (not a deliberate antagonistic action)
C: neither, cellular blinds that don’t have slats/cords etc
ahh the blind world version of the venus fly trap.
A signals to your neighbours that its time for the sleeper cell to arise, mobilise, assassinate Ted Heath, and replace him with a cloned imposter who will hand sovereignty of the British Isle over to the Soviet Union
B signals to the same neighbours that you've run out of milk
B. How is this even up for debate?
I’m with kayak on this. The other way is just a result of the design, you’re not supposed to actually use it unless you’re some sort of monster
A. if you must have blinds in the UK its to stop sunlight getting in for some weird reason
the correct answer of course is get rid of the hateful dust covered things
A but they should be designed so that it's the aesthetically correct choice.
My reasoning is hot air rises so why would I want to channel that towards the window?
My reasoning is hot air rises so why would I want to channel that towards the window?
This is relevant. I have seen advice that in winter, you should use A to keep the heat in. In summer, you might want to use B to try and channel heat towards the window.
I suspect it makes very little difference in reality - though perhaps it would if you angled the slats to 45°.
You can of course do A and B at the same time
if you must have blinds in the UK its to stop
sunlight getting in for some weird reasonpeople staring in to your living room like you’re some sort of roadside exhibit
At least that is why I have them. Just adjust the angle to let light in whilst ensuing people can’t stare in like utter dickheads. The only other alternative would be net curtains and I’m not a ninety year old lady. Living on a relatively busy street with no front garden sucks sometimes
Oh oh. It'll be bog roll next.
Depends what you want to achieve
Exactly.
Oh oh. It’ll be bog roll next.
Pretty sure we've done that more than once...
Hardly the place to come asking to settle an argument is it?
Jesus we've turned into Mumsnet.... without the knob, fanny, discussion obvs.
What sort of pervert would you need to be to go with option A? Clearly it should be option B unless you are either stuck in the bed or trying to wind up a normal thinking person.
Edit. Too late to edit my post. Stuck in the bed was an autocorrect, it was meant to say sick in the head. Anyways, the answer is B
B - who the **** does A.
Replace with curtains.
Depends on the size of the slats and how tight they shut, but A for function of stopping the peeping toms and keeping the light out. B for aesthetics.
Most posh chalets over here are upside down with ground floor bedrooms and the bears like to peer through B style blinds
The only other alternative
Translucent paper like roller blinds.
My front room is slightly below street level if I want privacy but still letting light in A works better. I don't think I ever have them in A position fully closed like that though.
Can you say slats on here?
My blinds must be special because I have B (obviously) and there is no way you could see in through the slats even if you pressed your face up against the window pane.
It's B unless you live in a trailer park, are married to your cousin, sleep with your sister and hang your toilet roll against the wall in which case it's A
A. if you must have blinds in the UK its to stop sunlight getting in for some weird reason
the correct answer of course is get rid of the hateful dust covered things
Clearly someone who lives somewhere where there are no nearby neighbours or a busy road with a lot of foot traffic who can easily look in the windows while you’re getting up, washing, and generally wanting to have some privacy.
The net curtains my mum favoured went years ago, the current blinds I want to replace with something a bit more stylish, but those IKEA things aren’t appropriate - I want to be able to control the amount of light coming in, along with privacy. As it happens, upstairs I have conventional Venetian blinds, downstairs I have vertical blinds.
A.
Streetlight shines in with B.
You close blinds to keep out external light. Light sources are up in the sky. Ergo it has to be A. If you're choosing B because it 'looks better' then what you need there is curtains.
Form < function. See also: hanging toilet rolls.
Can I take a wildly sexist punt on our sharky OP thinking it should be A and his missus thinking it should be B?
You close blinds to keep out external light.
Or for privacy.
