Richfield Studios 2" Room Darkening Blinds

These are the easiest to install of any blinds I have put in--and I have recently installed a good number of them! The blinds simply "click" into the brackets and the brackets do not absolutely have to be at the exact END of the blind (so long as they don't interfere with pull cords). This reduces the agony involved in spacing the brackets "just right." The wood grain looks very nice, too. The only pain is that the brackets are packaged inside a recess in the blind's top; you can spend a good deal of time just trying to get them out of there. I can see that this style of packaging was done to reduce space, but it's a bit of a headache. Overall, however, these are wonderful blinds at a very decent price.

If your looking for black out shades, these aren't for you. They do block out some more light then my previous thin blinds though. Overall for the price, they are a good deal. They look good enough for the price. If you want true black out shades it will cost you a lot more money. See pictures.

The don't even look like wood. They look like butterscotch colored plastic...cheap butterscotch colored plastic. I pulled one out of the box and it wouldn't even release. I didn't bother opening the other three that I bought. I returned them to the store the next day.

Mounting hardware is just two metal brackets, which are difficult to remove from blinds where they are stored while shipping. Brackets are difficult to align perfectly to get the blinds set properly...I have 4 of the 6 sets of blinds improperly mounted, but working enough to where I (hope) they won't fall out of the window sill. The blinds "click" into one side, but don't click safely into the other bracket. Looks somewhat crooked, but I got tired of trying to do it over & over, drilling all these holes to re-mount the pathetic brackets. Blinds were "wood pattern" but NOT faux-wood. The thick material used to have the wood appearance is not used; it is simply 2" wide plastic pieces just like the normal generic mini-blinds for sale at the store. Maybe I didn't read the description properly, but I thought I was getting the thick faux-wood blinds. The rod in the blinds is plastic, I'm not sure if that's durable or not- even the cheapest plastic mini blinds at WalMart come with a metal rod for the operating mechanism... The blinds look good really because they are replacing yellowed, dingy and broken blinds. Otherwise I'd be more upset. I am pretty irate for the fact that I could have spent a few extra dollars and bought the actual faux-wood blinds; just thought I was saving some cash buying these. Would not buy from this company again.

I had first purchased a more expensive blind and only did 3 windows because of the price. These were bought in the store. Went online to see if I could get the other window sizes and found these blinds at half the price. Measured and ordered for 11 windows. They came in earlier than told and were up for Christmas. Neighbours walking by stopped to tell us how great they look. They are room darkening, close tightly, easy up and down and simple to install. The blades are faux wood looking and the chestnut colour is perfect with the wood we have. Ordered another one for a bigger window. Would be nice if they came in a shorter length but guess we can not have everything for the price. We will shorten them and keep the extra blades just in case. Gave durability excellent rating but not sure yet as they have only been up a week. If that feature meets the other promises, we should not be needing the extra blades we will take out. Was able to take down all the curtains I had up over them because they are so nice to look at and do not need to be covered up. Made the rooms look bigger too which is nice in a trailer. Neighbour is buying them for their place after coming in and having a hands on look and I will get for my windows at home. So far, blinds we ordered were half inch shorter in width than stated and they fit our windows perfect, example window 29inches, ordered 29 inch blind and it is really 28.5 so fits perfect for inside bracket measure. Same with the bigger sizes we ordered. Can not say enough about how great these blinds are and unless you tell people what you paid, they are none the wiser.