A blinds/curtains combination can add real presence to a window, assuming you get the right match of fabrics and styles; with the results often being quite show-stopping when you do. Vertical blinds go with curtains and look “right” as it were within many styles and design ethos’s; however, as vertical blinds are one of the more modern styles of blinds, this might not be in-keeping with a period property, classical or traditional style, or shabby-chic type of interior. With the blinds hung inside of the window and the curtains over the top, you can close the curtains over the blinds or open them and leave the blind closed to filter light.

This option is suitable for both 89mm and 127mm blind panels holding up to 30 blind Slats for top fixing Vertical blinds fitted inside a window or door recess. While you can use colour and pattern effects like stripes on other types of blinds to draw the eye along the vertical, vertical blinds and curtains have a natural synergy as the top-to-bottom hanging louvres of the blind follow the vertical folds or pleats of the curtains in a very symbiotic manner.What is it about vertical blinds that makes them a good pairing with curtains, and why do vertical blinds go with curtains in most people’s opinions? This mainly comes down to the fact that vertical blinds are the only type of blinds that hang vertically, the clue being in the name! Suitable for both 89mm and 127mm blind width panels holding up to 30 blind Slats for top fixing blinds inside a window recess. For the purposes of answering this question, I am going to take “can I put curtains in front of my vertical blind” to mean putting the curtains inside of the window recess, and the blind behind them in the room itself, hung over or outside of the window recess and so, curtains. While you can probably physically do this as long as your window recess is wide enough, the real answer is no; this won’t work.

Do vertical blinds go with curtains? Yes, depending as always on the sort of finish and style you’re trying to achieve. Mixing prints is always somewhat risky territory in both clothing fashion and interior design, and generally, mixing prints on a pair of curtains hung with a patterned vertical blind stands a better chance of being a “miss” than a hit. You can also contrast the colour of blind and curtains respectively too, which works particularly well if your room has a two-colour theme or you’re working with a main colour and an accent colour. Can you put vertical blinds and curtains together in any room? In this blog post I’ll cover the most common questions we get about pairing vertical blinds with curtains and making it work; starting with explaining why vertical blinds and curtains look good together and moving on from there. Do vertical blinds go with curtains?It will both look odd to have curtains in front of or inside of the blind, and it also negates the purpose of the curtains in large part too. Yes, vertical blinds pair well with curtains, allowing you to get the best of both worlds; the opulence and potentially, classical styling of curtains with the control and adjustability that only comes with light-filtering blinds like verticals. Do vertical blinds go with curtains if one or the other has a print or pattern on it? First up, having both your curtains and blinds patterned with a different print on each of them doesn’t tend to work, or at least, needs to be handled with extreme care and will only work even then within quite a narrow range of styles. In style terms, there are no rooms that a vertical blinds/curtains fusion won’t work in. Can I put curtains in front of my vertical blind?