Archive for June, 2009

Kittens

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Visited a cat breeder in a village east of Bury St Edmunds to show her the roller blind colours in our catalogue for her conservatory. She wanted to change her vertical blinds for roller blinds because the cats enjoyed playing with the vertical blind weights and chains and had ruined them.

She kindly brought two newborn kittens from their mother to show me. They were inquisitive and very  cute but I wasn’t allowed to touch them in case their mother rejected them.

We have an on line roller  blind catalogue on our website www.baileysblinds.com (we dont sell cats but we know someone who does).

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Perfect Fit Venetian Blinds

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

063Becky needed something to dim out her ground floor bedroom because she had difficulty sleeping after her night shifts. French doors open out onto a patio area in the garden and she wanted something to provide shading on the windows without closing the curtains.

She doesn’t like vertical blinds and also felt that a large roller blind would be unsightly and impractical. I suggested wood effect 25 mm width aluminium venetian blinds mounted in Perfect Fit frames. This makes the venetian blinds appear to be part of the window.

We installed the blinds two weeks after receiving her order and she was very pleased saying that the blinds looked like shutters.They tilt and lift the same as venetian blinds do in conventional installations. If you need to know more come and see in our showrooms in Bury St Edmunds or Brandon or visit www.baileysblinds.com

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English rules OK (I’m afraid)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Venetian blinds in Sebert Wood Primary School

Venetian blinds in Sebert Wood Primary School

Some years ago I fitted some golden coloured venetian blinds for a young Indian couple who run a food wholesale business in Bury St Edmunds.

The customer was busy so his father let me into the house to install the venetian blinds. The father spoke perfect English and he said that he had driven lorries in India and said that his English had been of great help to him in India.

After travelling for several hours it was impossible to speak with the locals because their language would be completely different. If he was lost the only way to get directions was to find the police station. It is usually the only place in town to find somebody who will speak the same language, namely English.

To learn more about window blinds visit www.baileysblinds.com

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Back Door Blind

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

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One of my relatives recently had her kitchen replaced by MFI in Bury St Edmunds. The kitchen now looks light and modern. She is very pleased with the result.

She wanted to buy a new blind for the back door but thought it was impossible because there is not enough room for the blind between the door hinge and the wall return to allow the door to open fully. The solution was to install a perfect fit frame on the door and then  mount a blind in the frame which then becomes part of the door.

We installed a pleated blind covered in Madrid,  a Louvolite pleated fabric, which allowed us to install a matching Madrid vertical blind on the adjacent window.  We also offered a venetian blind but she preferred the pleated style.

If you would like to see our vertical blind or pleated blind catologues visit www.baileysblinds.com

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