Beyond Know How

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One place that people often don’t consider when looking for window covering solutions is the flea market. Flea markets are a great place to pick up some bargains, and they are a good excuse to get the kids off the computer and out into some fresh air. Pack a picnic lunch and you can really make a day of it.

I recently purchased the perfect set of cheap roman blinds from one of our local flea markets. They were a dark purple and work perfectly in our lounge room that gets a lot of afternoon sunlight. The beauty of shopping for blinds at flea markets is that you will find styles that you won’t find in your average retail shop. Another benefit is that you can haggle on the price. Most people with stalls at the markets expect their customers to try and get a cheaper price, and there is nothing wrong with asking for a reduced price. It’s well worth having a look.

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Adding blinds to every window of your house can be a more expensive job than you think. When you think about it, most houses have at least five or six windows; some have as many as ten or more windows.

If you figure that a decent blind will set you back $100, and multiply it by the number of windows in your house, you could easily be spending between $500 and $1,000 dollars just on window blinds for your house.

Which is why, if you have any sense, you’ll be shopping around for some great deals on cheap blinds or, as the trade much prefers to call them, discount blinds.

Cheap doesn’t mean low quality though, if you know where to look. Make sure to check out things like discontinued stock, or clearance sales to make sure that you don’t just get low quality blinds that are made in bulk.