Yesterday I picked up some Levolor "Cellular" blinds. I'm not going to call them mini blinds, because that would imply they have blades. I suppose from a distance, you might think they were mini blinds, but in reality, they are sort of an accordian like composite paperish material on the exterior. The kicker is, the "Room darkening" models have a layer of aluminum foil sandwiched between the exterior outter material, and the interior outter material. 72" long is standard length, various width sizes with on the spot cutting to fit your interior dimensions of your windows. The machine automatically takes off 3/8" to allow the blinds some wiggle room in the frame. So, don't give them a measurement leaving a 1/4" on both sides or something, as you will be upset when they are cut to short.
Installation isn't bad, 2 brackets, and slap them in. It will be best if you have a small window header to fasten to. They aren't really designed for above and over mount.
Now to the results?
I was previously using light filtering vertical blinds. the problem was, in my room, with my RPTV facing the window, while viewing during the day, you would see the entire window in the reflective RPTV cover. Sure, I guess I could have removed the cover, and been "Better", but still the lighting was to extreme during the day anyway.
There is edge lighting that still comes in so the room isn't completely dark, but even with some indirect lighting from other room openings, front door, the lighting during the day has been reduced by a good 75% even with one of the blinds cracked open 3" at the bottom. (keep in mind, my windows are 72" long! I have 4 windows, 2 with interior dimension of 30", and 2 with interior width of 22". The cost for all 4 windows at Lowes was 140.00 custom cut to my width.
Unfortunately, not many "stock" colors are available, like white and beige. I simply went with alibaster, (beige), but in the room in daylight, they appear much darker unless you throw front light on them.
The UPC code on a 31" blind titled "Custom Size Now by Levolor Cellular Shades" is 2708883402.
Perhaps they will assist you with your lighting problems.
The only caveate, is, they are a little sensitive to bends and mashing them I would guess, since they are fairly delicate material. But they do have some resiliance, so just take reasonable care of them, and they should be fine.
Oh yeah, even with the peripheral light around the blinds, there's ZERO reflection on my RPTV screen now. I guess since it's not direct lighting, it doesn't cause a problem. Happy camper.
Lex
Cable Guy DVD Collection
Installation isn't bad, 2 brackets, and slap them in. It will be best if you have a small window header to fasten to. They aren't really designed for above and over mount.
Now to the results?
I was previously using light filtering vertical blinds. the problem was, in my room, with my RPTV facing the window, while viewing during the day, you would see the entire window in the reflective RPTV cover. Sure, I guess I could have removed the cover, and been "Better", but still the lighting was to extreme during the day anyway.
There is edge lighting that still comes in so the room isn't completely dark, but even with some indirect lighting from other room openings, front door, the lighting during the day has been reduced by a good 75% even with one of the blinds cracked open 3" at the bottom. (keep in mind, my windows are 72" long! I have 4 windows, 2 with interior dimension of 30", and 2 with interior width of 22". The cost for all 4 windows at Lowes was 140.00 custom cut to my width.
Unfortunately, not many "stock" colors are available, like white and beige. I simply went with alibaster, (beige), but in the room in daylight, they appear much darker unless you throw front light on them.
The UPC code on a 31" blind titled "Custom Size Now by Levolor Cellular Shades" is 2708883402.
Perhaps they will assist you with your lighting problems.
The only caveate, is, they are a little sensitive to bends and mashing them I would guess, since they are fairly delicate material. But they do have some resiliance, so just take reasonable care of them, and they should be fine.
Oh yeah, even with the peripheral light around the blinds, there's ZERO reflection on my RPTV screen now. I guess since it's not direct lighting, it doesn't cause a problem. Happy camper.
Lex
Cable Guy DVD Collection
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