June 16th, 2009
Becky 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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June 9th, 2009
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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June 9th, 2009
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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March 14th, 2009
The Cattle Market(arc) has opened for business in Bury St Edmunds.
Baileys Blinds of Bury St Edmunds have installed some roller blinds in the display windows of the Debenhams store. The roller blinds are mounted in cassette boxes which are painted to match the colour of the window frames.
We provided handles for the window dressers by cutting semi circles out of the roller blinds using a sweet tin left over from Christmas.
Look out for the Baileys Blinds sticky labels in the Bury St Edmunds Debenhams store or visit www.baileysblinds.com.
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March 13th, 2009
Baileys Blinds supply and install blinds in Haverhill in Suffolk.
One of Baileys Blinds customers in Haverhill look after two search dogs. One of them detects drugs while the other is trained to detect mobile phones.
Mobile phones are prized assets in jails and the prison authorities are keen to detect and confiscate as many as possible. The sniffer dogs can smell the lithium batteries inside the mobile phones and can easily find the phones. It goes without saying that the prisoners do not like the search dogs.
I have been back to Haverhill to fit vertical blinds and roller blinds in the dogs house several more times. They are happy in their work.
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March 12th, 2009
Some years ago I was asked to supply and install a vertical blind for a lady in Thetford near to the Pine Close shops.
As I was fitting the vertical blind I noticed a fish tank which I assumed contained a hamster or some other kind of pet rodent. When I had finished fitting the blind I asked her what lived in the tank. It was her pet snake! She then got the snake from the depths of the tank to show me. He was a lovely tan brown colour and probably about two feet long.
He looked a bit groggy and seemed unimpressed with being shown off by his mum. She went on to explain that the snake ate mice (already dead) which were frozen and had to defrost naturally. You never know what lies hidden behind the vertical blinds in Thetford.
We supply and install vertical blinds in Thetford. You can see blinds in our Brandon showroom or at www.baileysblinds.com
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March 11th, 2009
We have recently registered the domain name www.stowmarketblinds.co.uk to show people in the Stowmarket area that there is a blind manufacturer based nearby who offer top quality window blinds at competitive prices.
You can look at fabric colours through the links on our web site. If you would like some prices telephone or visit our showroom which is a short drive away in Bury St Edmunds.
We look forward to seeing you.
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March 4th, 2009
I went to fit a roller blind in a village outside Bury St Edmunds. It was a large house with a small lake and outbuildings. The house keeper answered the door and asked whether I knew where to fit the roller blind. I didnt know and neither did she so she showed me into the drawing room to wait while she fetched the owner.
There were several paintings hung around the wood panelled drawing room. I was to find out later that some of them dated back to the eighteenth century and that they were portraits of the owners ancestors. They had escaped to England to escape persecution in France.
The owner soon arrived and took me to the room to fit the roller blind. I told him that I was fascinated by the paintings. He said that when I had finished he would show me the paintings again and explain who was who.
I fitted the roller blind and we went back to the drawing room. The owner spoke about each painting and gave me some background about each individual painting. Then came the most amazing thing. He showed me a photograph of his youngest son and then pointed out one of the paintings which was about one hundred and fifty years old. I was apparently looking at an oil painting and a photograph of the same individual only they had lived one hundred and fifty years apart.
Identical ancestor and descendant twins born in different generations.
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February 19th, 2009
Baileys Blinds were asked by Gavin (and Dominic) of Patton Fit Out from Ballymena in Northern Ireland to supply and install some window blinds in the new Debenhams store in the Arc development in Bury St Edmunds. The blinds screen the shop front whilst displays are being changed. The display designers would rather reveal their creation to the public when it is complete and prevent people seeing the shop front under construction containing naked mannequins and in an untidy mess.
The windows are very tall (about four metres) so instead of using conventional roller blinds operating from top to bottom Gavin from Pattons asked Baileys Blinds from Bury St Edmunds to supply and install roller blinds which pull up from the ground. The blinds clip into brackets attached to the shop front about two metres from the ground.
The rollerblinds were covered in Guardian White flame retardant fabric from Louvolite and were installed inside cassette boxes from Global International which were painted in light gray to match the shop front. (The choice of colour was nothing to do with Gavin).
Baileys Blinds completed the installation on time without disruption to the operation of the Bury St Edmunds Debenhams store which was receiving stock before opening in March 2009.
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February 18th, 2009
Have just fitted some vertical blinds for a lady in Bury St Edmunds who keeps pet rats. When I arrived some of the rats peeked out of their beds inquisitively. I was allowed to have a hold and a stroke of some of them. They were very well behaved and did not mind being handled.
In the same week I also saw some chinchillas in another house in Bury St Edmunds. They are much bigger then rats but not as inquisitive or tame. Makes a change from cats and dogs!
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