Wooden Venetian Blinds - Spruce Up The Look of Your Home

Wooden Venetian Blinds look best in the windows of houses that are also made of wood. They are also well suited to brick and stone homes. Stone homes look particularly quaint and European with stone shutters. They can also spruce up the look of a home that has aluminum siding, adding some class to its look as well as some value. The darker the color of wood on a venetian blind the richer and more expensive the effect usually is.

Wooden venetian blinds add charm where the plastic or metal slatted kind can’t. There is simply an old fashioned charm to them that cannot be rivaled by the green or cream colored institutional type blinds. However those fifties type blinds do suit some office decors that are based on retro furniture and fabric designs from the middle of the last century.

Wooden venetian blinds are also the ideal compliment to decors that have a rustic, antique or prairie theme to them. They also suit some areas of a home that is Victorian, such as a closed porch, especially if they are painted a dark color. The reason that something so country looking can still suit something so formal as a Victorian design scheme is that the wooden shutter (which resembles a Venetian blind) was once quite common in the designs of old homes in Great Britain.

Cottages are also very well suited for wooden venetian blinds. They help keep out the heat in the middle of the summer and they also smell nice if they do heat up in the sun. Another benefit is that they can be completely closed at night to prevent your family from being spied on by curious bears. Wooden venetian blinds are a nice choice for a vacation home because they go with everything and are easy to care for.

There are also some Asian style decors that also suit wooden venetian blinds especially if the blinds are very spare and square in shape. Vertical wooden blinds also suit Asian styles of décor. Dark red woods, and woods that are painted black or bright cherry red are good choices for a home that has a spare Chinese or Japanese flair.

Country wood blinds also make the ideal décor for a farmhouse or a country house especially if it is decorated in the traditional old-fashioned country or rustic design schemes, which can include elements such as floral or checkered fabrics, stuffed couches and tables and wooden coffee tables. It is a good idea to match the color of the wood in the venetian blinds to another design element in your home such as the floor or the furniture. Therefore if your floor is pine, try to buy wooden venetian blinds that are made of blinds as well.