Recommendations for Window Coverings?
 

Got a lot of windows that I have to redo. Most are non-standard sizes. Any recommendations for a place that does blinds / drapes. Hopefully on the cheap....

What I know on blinds:

I don't know anything on pricing from places like budget blinds. Given that its franchise, I can't imagine its actually cheap at all.

Vertical blinds, for the cheaps...go to Lowe's. They cut in house for levelor blinds and you pick the vanes that you want from a selection they have in store. They are plastic, not fabric. I go there for verticals for apartment sliding balcony doors and its 30ish for the header(mine are really wide) and 15ish per pack of 13 vanes and I usually need 3. So, one sliding door for 75-85 dollars. No special order, which is nice. You can actually cut the header yourself with a hacksaw...its not rocket science. Had to the last time as their machine was broken, and I had a tenant moving in.

Now, you can stay in the verticals for everything and just pick the stock selection of headers and vanes to work.

You can do mini-blinds as well. I prefer the ones from home depot, and I find the service there to be better. They have a type that doesn't have that traditional shitty box mounting system that is fug, but an invisible mount that looks super slick.

I will warn you..the people at Lowe's go full retard on the cutting machine. They have been better the last times I've gone. I made one woman cry after she got all flustered after nuking the 3rd set of blinds on the machine, tells me she hasn't had a break, she's diabetic and management won't let her have lunch. Starts balling and walks away on me.

At Home Depot, they can't cut verticals in house but special order. For the same size doors(for an apples apples comparison) they were about $200ish if I remember correctly, but had a much nicer fabric vane. Oh, and it was about 2 weeks to get them in.

Fabric wasn't an option with tenancies, so I didn't pursue further.

Other than that, I do recommend you measure really carefully if you do it yourself.

Shades in Motion (a division of Do-Rite Installations)

A family owned company, SUPER sweet and professional. They did my parents house and price was very afforadble for what we got. What size is your house/apt, approx how many shades you need etc.

How we actually found them was they were installing new shades for a client that was moving into her apartment and was impressed by the quality of service and materials. So my dad asked him to visit the house and the rest is history! We also recommend them to our clients as well and they were well received.

NOT recommended:

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On a budget, you can try bright blinds. We got a quote from them for about 3000 for all roller shades, and this is for the entire house so about 20+ windows and some of them quite big, like 6X6