Blinds--Fittings & Supplies

Blinds are typically fixed to their individual window by the use of custom fittings that will hold the blind in place.

Each different style and construction of blinds will require a specialised fitting to hold it securely in place. Different styles of blinds may include roller or holland blinds, roman blinds, venetian and mini-venetian blinds, and vertical blinds. Roller, holland and roman blinds use gathered strings or spring loaded rollers to raise and lower the blind itself and are most often fitted flush to the window from an overhead railing. Venetian and vertical blinds are rotated in synchronism by a series of linked cords and can be fitted directly to the window embrasure or contained within a pelmet or similar overhead boxed fitting.

Blinds can be fitted together with or in place of other window coverings, and in each case require different fittings. When holland blinds in particular are used in the home to provide light or heat insulation, it is common for them to be fitted on a triple railing behind both fabric drapes and sheer curtains. Following a lull in popularity after their 1980s heyday, vertical blinds are being revisited as a means of providing versatile and artistic multi-layer window coverings and even room dividers. Such fittings will use multi-channel rails to allow blind sections of varying opacity to be hung together.

Blind fittings and supplies are available both to both commercial blind manufacturers, home decorators and to handymen wishing to maintain or repair their own window treatments.