I've being looking for some black-out blinds for a bedroom in my house. Its a typical semi-detached built in the 60s - similar proportions to thousands of houses around the country.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've gone into most of the well known home furnishing/DIY/curtain chains with the intention of buying an off the shelf fit yourself blind, but none in any shop are large enough to fit my windows. The window in question is 6ft 4in wide. The largest size in stock in each of the shops was 6ft (c.180cm).
Some of the shops said you could get them custom made etc. etc. at much greater cost and hastle, but I dont want to go down this route if it is possible to get them off the shelf.
Now, I would have expected to have some difficulty getting the blinds if I had some atypically sized windows, but, as I said earlier, I live in a typical semi of a size and style that is extremely common in the greater Dublin area. Therefore I would have assumed that there would be a huge market for selling blinds that fit the windows. Whats more, it isnt even the largest bedroom window - one of the others has a 7ft wide window!
It seems to me that the large chains are only catering for the apartment market and recently built houses which are generally of smaller proportion than your typical mid-20th century semi. But, there are 100,000s of semis? Why not cater for them?
Anyone know of anywhere that sells 6ft 4in or 7ft wide black out blinds?
Over the past couple of weeks, I've gone into most of the well known home furnishing/DIY/curtain chains with the intention of buying an off the shelf fit yourself blind, but none in any shop are large enough to fit my windows. The window in question is 6ft 4in wide. The largest size in stock in each of the shops was 6ft (c.180cm).
Some of the shops said you could get them custom made etc. etc. at much greater cost and hastle, but I dont want to go down this route if it is possible to get them off the shelf.
Now, I would have expected to have some difficulty getting the blinds if I had some atypically sized windows, but, as I said earlier, I live in a typical semi of a size and style that is extremely common in the greater Dublin area. Therefore I would have assumed that there would be a huge market for selling blinds that fit the windows. Whats more, it isnt even the largest bedroom window - one of the others has a 7ft wide window!
It seems to me that the large chains are only catering for the apartment market and recently built houses which are generally of smaller proportion than your typical mid-20th century semi. But, there are 100,000s of semis? Why not cater for them?
Anyone know of anywhere that sells 6ft 4in or 7ft wide black out blinds?