I'm interested in the answers/suggestions too. I wonder if I could get away with mixing shutters and blinds in the same living area. That might be pushing it. (Blinds for a double height living area with void, and shutters for single height dining room windows and sliding doors.)
Amcox, I think you could mix the two. Shutters would look so lovely for those windows. (I'm assuming the top arch section would be uncovered?)

You can definitely get away with mixing faux wood blinds and plantation shutters. It is very common, here in the Midwest, to put plantation shutters on the front side of a home and faux wood blinds on the back side. They look very similar from the outside of the home. As far as your arches go, we also put a lot of sunburst shutter arches on arches widows above faux wood blinds. Your definitely headed in the right direction. Just make sure the colors are very similar. LiteRise is a great option offered by Hunter Douglas. By far our most common cord operation on most window treatments. The one thing to consider is with the faux wood blinds, liteRise can become very heavy depending upon the height of your windows.

Thank you so much! I would really love to get the LiteRise feature. Unfortunately, with 50 doors and windows, it's not an economical option.

I'm giving myself two options.

1. All shutters on the front portion of the home (office, sidelites and dining room) and all others blinds

2. All blinds throughout the entire home.

I'm too nervous about having shutters for the arch and blinds on the lower.

Decisions Decisions

LOL! "Two Blind Guys", you've made the decision even more difficult, by adding such a beautiful picture. Thanks! ;-)

Oh, one other question - For cost cutting measures, would it look too much off the marker (using your picture above), if I had blinds on the bottom windows and shutters for the arch area?

I think that on the same window you should keep the product the same, ie, not mixing shutters and blinds.The colours and textures are too close to each other to mix them.

Lisa,

That's my concern, as well.

I bought plantation shutters for my arched windows then blinds for my other windows. This worked very well for years. Once the blinds wore out due to use - I replaced them w shutters albeit 18 years later!

Is there a blind option for the arches?

Do you even need to cover the arches? You could just put blinds on the lower part and leave the upper open? I've seen that done before and it looks fine. Better I think than mixing. Unless you need both covered for room darkening in a bedroom.....

With shutters or blinds in the arches, won't you end up covering up the stained glass? I suppose that could be what you want. (I've only ever seen arch window treatments that were basically fixed - so you wouldn't be able to open them enough to show off the stained glass details from the inside when you wanted to.)

@ReMax - Lisa - that's what I was thinking. I'm dealing with a house with upper stained glass panels at the moment, although they aren't arched, and what I'm considering is shutters just on the bottom plain glass part. It's a living room so there's no regular need to completely block off the light, but we might eventually splurge on a projection TV system, and if we do that then you do need the room to be dark. I'm thinking to solve that problem I might actually just go with blackout roller blinds and build a little box out of trim to mount up at ceiling level to conceal the roller blind when it's not in use. When they are in use, no one is going to be looking at the window treatments anyway, so if they're not particularly exciting visually, who cares?)

The arches aren't stained. I can't visualize the arches not being covered.

Decisions - Decisions

I'm sure their must be some pics on Houzz of windows similar with blinds and the arch exposed. I've seen it often, looks just fine.

We have an operable window treatment for your arches, called the Adjust-a-View. www.adjustaview.com

What needs to be determined is whether or not you want to cover the arches. We have many customers who don't cover the arches at first and then call back months later and add them because a lot of sun tends to come through them. It really depends upon the sun exposure in your home. The difference between the faux wood blind arch and the shutter arch (the photo I posted) are very subtle. They look almost the same except one is an adjustable sunburst and the other is a stationary slat. Below is an example of the Hunter Douglas Everwood faux wood arches. The shutter is a little bit nicer because you can set the lovers to a certain position that you want where the faux wood is preset.

@ Two - the HD dealer that I'm working with is quoting the wood blinds at the same as the faux. Does the wood fade more than the faux? Is the warranty the same for wood and faux?

The warranties are not the same for the faux wood and real wood blinds. Both have a 7 year warranty on cords but the faux woods are guaranteed not to bow, warp, or yellow for the lifetime of the blind. Ask your dealer to brief you on any of this or if you have questions feel free to give us a call.

I have a large arch with windows under. I do not have anything on the arch. Left it open for light a visual simplicity. Depends if you mind the light. Yes I think shutters and blinds can mix.

Oops, I was seeing the stickers on the windows as some kind of stained glass detail on my little phone display. Serves me right for not looking closely enough. :)

I think arches exposed looks fine - for me it depends on, as mentioned, the light issue. How often are you going to want to be able to really open things up for maximum light into the room? (The way my parents' house is oriented, if any of their front windows had arches they would NEVER be covered because the whole area around the house is pretty well shaded. Any natural light that comes in is great, you just need the privacy of covering the lower part of the window sometimes.)

LOL! Thanks!

I'm waiting on the warranty question to be answered regarding the wood blinds, oppose to the faux.

I have my answer on the warranty. The wood blinds aren't protected from warping, fading, etc. I still may have to mix wood and faux about the home, due to the location (garage, etc.)

The nice thing about the Adjust-A-View is that when it's open, you have a nice unobstructed view. Contact us at: omegamfg@lakefield.net and I can give you details.

With the Adjust-A-View the cellular shades lay flat and parallel to the sill when open, each side falling to it's respective side. Therefore you see a lower shade profile when open.

The Adjust-A-View operates with a continuous loop beaded pull cord or motorization with an IR plug in power supply.

I have hunter Douglas faux and real wood in my house. 7 years ago I had a sinking feeling about the faux and refused. If I did it again I would choose all faux from this company. The top return (with sides) is nicer on the faux and they have held up great and you can not tell!!!! I would never do the real wood again even though I was set on my ways visioning cheap yucky plastic. The faux is easy to clean and again I am a believer now and can imagine things have come even further since I had these installed.

@ Joelen - I absolutely love your comment. That helps me so much. That makes my decision very simple now. There's no better way to advertise or assistance, than by experience and word of mouth.

Thank you!

I will have the PowerTilt on the top row of windows, because they are out of reach.

You really can't beat the warranty and durability of the Everwood Faux Woods offered by Hunter Douglas. Real Wood is beautiful and great for rich stains but for whites and off whites, Faux Wood is definitely the way to go. PowerTilt is a great option for those hard to reach upper 2nd story windows. Glad the project is coming along nicely.

can I have one window in the room (a different wall) with white wooden shutters and other bay window with hunter douglas pirouette or siloette blinds with the horizontal lines and clear mesh fabric on other window. All other windows in house have white wooden shutters also/

I'm not hearing anything about shutter or blind size. My shutters are 2-1/2" and I'm being told that 2" blinds will look best with them because of the thickness of the shutter vs the faux blind. any comments?

Can you mix shutters and roller shades in an open concept home?

My townhouse is an open concept with 3 french doors across the back. I would like to use 3 1/2 inch plantation shutters on the side window (large window with three panels) and woven bamboo shades on the doors to give the room texture and enjoy the view. There is also a small window above the kitchen sink where I would like to use the bamboo shade so I don't block the view. Is it okay to mix the plantation shutters and shades with the open concept? Thank you.

I ended up mixing shutters and hunter Douglas silhouettes and it looks great. I think shutters and wood blinds would look great together.