With Select Blinds, you have to be cognizant of their sale schedule – they are one of those brands that perpetually has sales. However, I did see many Instagram tagged posts with the exact blinds, so I ordered and hoped for the best.
So on my first set, I had to take a chance and order them sight unseen. The only downside with their samples is that some of their more expensive and popular wood woven styles were out of stock. Above: This booklet for their faux wood blinds comes with every sample order Had I gone with the online colors only, I would have definitely picked a shade that was off. I ended up with 9 different linen samples for our roman shades - better safe than sorry. These were extremely helpful for color matching (there is simply no way to tell online) and for understanding textural differences. I highly recommend that people order samples! Their samples ship quickly, I received mine in just a few days each time. This is a fairly long review, you can jump around to the most relevant sections with the links below: While Select Blinds has reviews on their site, they are text-only – I really wish people could submit photos as well. If you are in the market for DIY installation blinds, I hope you find this review helpful. So I decided to order one set to test… since then, I’ve installed their shades in three additional rooms in various styles! Select Blinds came highly recommended by Redditors, and they had the initial style I was looking for – top/down bottom/up honeycomb cellular shades. Apparently, the vast majority of window products are very similar and there is no need to pay a mark-up unless a brand like Hunter Douglass has a very specific material that you just can’t live without. The internet (aka reddit) further convinced me that self-installation was the way to go. Window frames are always surrounded by 2×4’s, so I wouldn’t have to worry about finding a stud (an issue I’ve had in the past when installing a closet system).
However, a colleague convinced me that it was very simple, even for someone as inexperienced as I was. Initially, I had no intention of installing our own blinds.
When we moved into our place last year, we had zero window coverings – no wonder the photos looked so light-filled! So, we quickly stuck up some temporary paper blinds, which covered the majority of our windows until this year.