Made to order
Custom blinds, cut for your window and not the nearest stock size
Wood, faux wood, designer metal and vertical blinds, built to order at the shop on Highway 16 and fitted by the same people who measured them.
Chapter 01
Where a stock blind gives itself away
The tell is almost always light. A blind cut to the nearest standard width leaves a gap down each side of the frame, and at seven in the morning that gap is a bright stripe across the wall whether you wanted one or not. The second tell is the headrail on a wide run: carry a stock rail past about six feet without the right support and it bows in the middle, so the slats stop sitting level and the whole blind reads crooked even when it is hung true.
There is a material problem too, and in this part of Arkansas it shows up fast. A real wood slat in a kitchen or a bathroom takes on moisture, and once it does it cups along its length and never quite comes back. South and west windows do something similar with heat, especially behind glass that gets full afternoon sun. None of that is a fitting fault. It is the wrong material in the wrong room, chosen because it was what the box happened to contain.
Fabric and material samples mounted on the workshop wall in Pangburn
How we build them
We measure the opening ourselves rather than work from numbers sent to us, because a window that is a quarter inch out of square at the top needs to be built for that, and you cannot see it in a photo. While we are in the room we match colors in the light the room actually gets. A white that looks clean under showroom fluorescents can go grey against a north-facing wall, and that is the kind of thing you only catch on site.
The blinds are then made to order on the premises in Pangburn. That is the part most people are surprised by: the shop and the workshop are the same building, so an arch, an eyebrow or a bay does not turn into a compromise or a special order that takes a month. Thirty years of trade experience sits behind that bench.
Choosing between the four families is usually quick once the room is described. Wood for living rooms and bedrooms where you want the grain. Faux wood for kitchens, baths and anywhere with steam or splash, because it takes the moisture without cupping. Designer metal where you want a slimmer slat and a harder edge. Verticals for sliding doors and tall glass, where a horizontal blind would have to be enormous to work. We carry Graber, Alta, Timber Blind and Shutter and Kirsch, so there is room to move on both look and budget.
Chapter 03
Living with them, and what the warranty covers
Blinds are low maintenance but not no maintenance. A dry dust along the slats every few weeks does most of the work, and a damp cloth on faux wood handles the kitchen film that builds up near a cooker. What is worth doing is tilting them fully closed one way and then the other now and again, because that is how you notice a lift cord starting to fray or a tilt wand going stiff, well before it lets go.
If something does fail, we handle the warranty work ourselves. There is a limited lifetime warranty on the products, and because we made and hung them we are not sending you to a manufacturer's phone line to describe the problem to somebody who has never seen your window. We are licensed and insured.
If a blind is fighting you every day, that is usually the point to consider motorizing it instead of replacing like for like, particularly on tall glass or anything over a stairwell. Call (501) 230-2631 and describe the rooms and the window count, and we can tell you which way is worth it. Estimates are free.
Suzie's Blinds. Licensed and insured. Limited lifetime warranty on products. Call (501) 230-2631.