Blinds Between the Glass and Children

If you have children, four legged or two, you will understand that it is impossible to keep anything clean. The walls are all muddled up with hand prints, the toilet lids all close funny because they are slammed down and each and every blind or window treatment has been tugged at, chewed on, or used as a napkin. This is why I am convinced that they came out with windows where the actual window treatments are incased between the glass. No more replacements needed from chewed cords or broken blinds. They are sealed up nice and tight and nothing is getting to them. Nothing can ruin these. Fool proof is what I think they are.

My first bad incident with blinds starts with my children and ends with my spouse burning a hole in the carpet. My children think they need to know what is going at all times. One day when we were outside raking leaves my daughter pulled the blinds up to peek outside to see what we are up to. Then she tries to release the shade with no luck. They are a little tricky those mini-blinds. The cord was stuck in the mechanism at the very top. So she does what any great kid would do and climbs a chair to fix it. In the process of bringing down the mini-blinds she broke one. My spouse being the OCD one decides we can not have blinds with a broken piece so she gets the box of replacements and sets out to replace the broken blind. Of course it happened to be one in the middle so we take the blinds apart, string them back together, and try to replace the bottom portion. The cord had started to fray so my spouse decided to take a match and melt the cord so that it would slide in easier. Now you see why I have a burn mark in the carpet. What a debacle this experience was. This is why I whole heartedly believe blinds between the glass were invented.

Also, those pesky little four legged creatures have a way of destroying blinds. I haven't met a cat or dog yet that sees something dangle that they don't think is a toy for them to play with. Once they attack the ball they are for sure going to chew on it and pull it. I have come home many a times and found the little wooden ball off our roman shades and a sweet kitty face telling me she did it. The other problem is the shade is then destroyed and in need of some reshaping because her paw has caught on the cord. I am sure that is how the blinds end up in the middle of the window.

That is why I am replacing the windows and blinds in our home with windows that come with the blinds sealed right in them. I know I will make the extra cost up in sanity, and carpet saved. The look will stay sleek not chewed and broken. When we have people visit I will not have to dust blinds, I will not have to wash curtain all I will do is lift the blinds between the pains of glass and let the company in.

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