Headrail. The uppermost part of your blind, it's where the control mechanism is located and where the blind attaches to the wall or ceiling.
Valance. The valance is a decorative piece that covers the headrail of blinds/shades.
Bottom Rail
The bottom-most horizontal piece on blinds and shades.
At the top of any venetian blind is the headrail where the control mechanism is housed. Our wooden blinds also include a decorative valance that matches the slats.
Headrails are essentially the part of the blind that houses the operating system – a.k.a. the mechanisms that make our blinds go up and down. The type of window treatment you select, whether that is wood blinds, roman shades, cellular shades, or shutters, will determine what the headrail will look like.
Vanes. The slats of a vertical blind are called vanes. They hang vertically from the track. They can be made out of fabric, aluminum, or vinyl. Most fabric vanes can be inserted into groovers for additional privacy and light-blocking for an additional charge.
Blind Wand and Cord Tilt Controls Menu
Often the question comes up do you prefer the wand or the cord tilt control for your wood, faux wood, or aluminum blinds.
A top fix lets your blinds hang within the recess, saving space and creating a streamlined, snug fit when you fit the brackets to the lintel at the top of the window. The fit you choose depends on a number of factors, including what kind of blinds you chose, the amount of room you have and even personal preference.
The structure of Venetian blinds is a simple one: they are horizontal slats made from either wood or metal and suspended on ladder cords. They can be easily adjusted to let in more or less light, and they're easy to raise and lower.
They are brackets designed to fit vertical blinds and roller blinds with a back bar into a suspended ceiling.
In this context window blinds include almost every type of window covering, whether it is a hard or soft material; i.e. shutters, roller shades, cellular shades (also called honeycomb shades), wood blinds, Roman shades, standard vertical, and horizontal blinds (also called Venetians).
Top-down, bottom-up shades are exactly what they sound like — a window treatment that you can raise and lower from both the top or the bottom. Or you can also use a combination of both. The goal with a top down, bottom up shade is to meet all your privacy needs while still giving you access to natural light.
A pelmet is a framework mounted over the top tube of the blind that conceals and protects the blind material and internal components.
Window blinds can be installed to either the recess of the window know as a “Top Fix” or on the face of the wall known as a “Face Fix” .
Top-down bottom-up window treatments are perfect for rooms that require more privacy, yet still, need natural light. When the top half of the shades or are opened, neighbors can't see people inside, but the sun can still manage to get through. This kind of privacy is unmatched by other window treatments.
Many vertical blinds have a connecting chain running along the bottom of the slats to help keep them in sync. If this chain becomes worn or snagged, it can break. Sorting this out is as simple as getting a new chain and replacing the old one.
Cord cleats keep dangerous, dangling cords out of the way of playful children and pets. Cord cleats are easily attached to the wall on either side of the window. They're used to wrap the window covering's pull and/or tilt cords around them, keeping the cords tied neatly up and out of the reach of grabby little hands.
Wand tilt mechanisms are used in horizontal wood, faux wood, and Venetian blinds to rotate the slats of the blind open and closed.
Vertical window blinds are louvred blinds with slats that run vertically. This is why they're sometimes known as vertical venetian blinds, because they have the same slatted style, but the louvres run vertically (top to bottom) instead of horizontally (side to side).