Custom Zebra Blinds Downtown Guelph – Free Installation

They read modern, and that is the honest answer. What settles it is where the head sits. Recessed inside the reveal, the cassette disappears above the sash and you see fabric framed by the original wood. Mounted outside on the casing it covers trim people usually paid to restore. In heritage rooms we mount inside almost every time, and we pick a warm cream or bone band rather than a cool grey.

Usually yes, and we like keeping them working. The measurement that decides it is the clear depth in front of the folded shutter leaf. A zebra needs roughly five centimetres of frame depth for an inside mount, so if the shutters eat that up we go outside the reveal instead and set the brackets above the casing. The shutters then still swing closed behind the blind.

Keep the sheer bands lined up and you keep the view, softened about as much as a screen door softens it. Fabric colour matters more than people expect. A dark charcoal band cuts reflected glare off the water and lets your eye read what is outside, while a white band brightens the room but hazes the view on a sunny afternoon. We bring both to the measure so you can hold them up to the glass.

More often than in a house on a quiet crescent. Traffic grit and brake dust drift up and settle on the horizontal bands, and it shows first on a light fabric. A dry microfibre cloth run down the face every couple of months keeps ahead of it. Once a year, spot clean marks with a barely damp cloth and cold water. Skip anything with solvent in it, since it lifts the coating off the sheer.