I am getting ready to order custom blinds and in the color/design we like, I can choose cordless OR top down/bottom up. We have windows that open from the top or bottom, so I like the top down/bottom up idea but I really don't want cords. If you have one or the other (or both) which do you prefer and why?
Thanks!
Katie L. - I wrote 'in the color/design we like' because the do not offer the cordless AND top down/bottom up in that design!! So I was just wondering if I had to choose one instead of BOTH...which you would choose!
Also should have added, we live in the country and it's often VERY windy (hence why I love the idea of top down because we open the tops of our windows quite a bit.
However, we have a 3 year old and hopefully baby in the next year or two...so the no cord thing is pretty enticing also.
Thanks all for your advice thus far!
I would do cordless. We put some nice ones in our rental unit, and they are awesome, and our tenant loves them. They are very smooth, and I don't have to worry about tangled up cords any longer. Furthermore, if you have small children, cordless are safer than corded blinds.
I am happy with top down/bottom up. Pricey, but it gives the light control and privacy that I like.
Like Katie, we have top down/bottom up cordless in our bathroom. I love them! I got mine at Budget Blinds.
ADDED: I see in your you can't do both with the design you're choosing. In that case, my vote would be for top down/bottom up.
My windows open from the top or bottom but that has never driven my choices. I have only one top down bottom up and that is in that stupidly large window that sits above my bathtub in the master bath. I love light but heck if the neighbors should have to see our bits. So you drop the top down high enough to cover the boobs and only raise the bottom enough so as to hide the bits. :)
The rest of my windows I have only bottom up some with some without cords. Two reasons, one I have never opened any of the windows and thought to myself god, I wish the blinds weren't there on the top, and two, there are two dangly cords that suspend the blind in the middle anyway so if you open the top of the window it is still going to be blowing around. Maybe not as much but it will.
Top down/bottom up. Too bad they don't have cordless. All of our custom blinds are wearing thin in the cords and it's getting on my nerves! :)
We don't have small children in our house these days, so cordless isn't really an issue for me. (Youngest was almost 5 when we moved here). We went with top down, bottom up in all our honeycomb blinded windows. (The formal living/dining have roman shades). They are great. We almost never use the bottom up. Only the top down.
My daughter uses the top down so she gets light in her room, without anyone being able to see IN her room. Son has recently started looking at the stars from his bedroom window at night (top down lets him put his telescope on his desk and not have to crouch on the floor). I use top down in my bedroom, and when I am walking around not fully dressed, I don't worry what anyone is seeing... b/c they can only see above my head, but it lets in plenty of light.
Breakfast table looks out onto the patio/pool. I often will drop them all the way down to almost the bottom (that way I have full view of the kids in the pool), but I almost never raise them from the bottom up to the top. I guess because you end up with that 3 inches of blind stacked at the top of your window, that once you've become accustomed to the "whole view" at the top, you hate having that stack of "heaviness" at the top.
It also means that I can lower them halfway down and get light in, without small visitors being able to see the pool outside and be tempted by it. :)
Hmmm, I'm confused. In our bathroom we have cordless AND top down/bottom up! You just push it down or up with your hand. So why can't you get both? We got ours at Blinds to Go. Like Nicole said, I love them because they give me the privacy I need in the bathroom but still allow for light (by pushing the top down to about neck level) I don't know why you have to choose between those options. Maybe there's something I'm missing.
