So this was a double casement (which most of mine are)? Since I have stained woodwork, I guess I would definitely have to go with stained wood or faux wood blinds.

Carolyn

I have casement windows & all my blinds are mounted outside the window and cover the trim. When lowered, the blinds rest on the handle. I just pull them up to open the window.

OOPS, sorry, meant to say mine are all INSIDE mount. My roman shades are outside mount.

Mine are outside mount and I just raise them up to open the windows or if I am lazy slip my hand up to open the lever and then crank them open.

Some of the faux wood stained blinds look really fake. Can someone recommend a brand that has a quality looking valance and the faux wood doesn't look so fake (kind of like plastic)? Thanks for all the help. I've been out of the decorating mode for WAY too long :)

Carolyn

Yes, the window was double casement. That's why we had to remove the handle, because the blind could not rest all the way into the inside. The middle wood trim prevented that. We wanted the outside trim to show. The single casements don't have that problem.

We couldn't find a stained Faux wood blind for our current house, so we went with the real thing.