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May 31, 2023

Blackout Blinds for Student Dorms

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Blackout Blinds for Student Dorms

Student dorms are much like apartments in that they’re primary purpose is housing for a whole lot of people at once. However, student dorms have some special needs that regular apartments don’t. When picking out blinds to furnish an entire dorm building, here are some things to consider.

One Room for Everything

One of the biggest things to consider when outfitting dorms with blinds is that students living in dorms, generally, have one room for everything. Their bedroom is where they’ll sleep, eat, study, hang out with friends, and more. While there are often other spaces for some of these things, they’re communal. If someone needs time alone or a space free of distraction, their room is it. Because of this, all of these unique needs must be taken into account when choosing blinds.

Study Spaces Need Light Control

Because students will be studying in their dorm rooms, they need light control to prevent screen glare. Additionally, it’s nice to be able to use daylight while reading a textbook or writing in a notebook. Slatted blinds may allow a little bit of that, but not nearly enough. 

Schedules Get Hectic

One reason why standard blinds fall short of what the average student dorms resident needs is the lack of blackout capability. Being a student is complicated. Sometimes you find yourself up all night studying and want to sleep the second you get back from class the next day. Unfortunately, classes don’t usually end when the sun goes down. Coming back at 3pm in desperate need of some good sleep is difficult with the sun shining right on your bed.

The solution? Blackout blinds. Blackout blinds come in many forms, but the best form of blackout blinds for student dorms is the roller blackout shade. By simply pulling the shade down, a student can plunge their entire room into complete blackness. This is ideal for a student with a bit of a hectic schedule – which, let’s be honest, is most of them.

Easy-to-Clean, Hard-to-Damage Blinds

Some additional benefits to roller blackout shades is that they’re easy to clean and hard to damage. That means, when the dorms get cleaned each summer between every new batch of students, they make the job that much easier. The shade can simply be pulled down, sprayed with an all-purpose cleaner, and wiped down. That’s an awful lot easier than getting each slat with a duster, or trying not to bend them while using a cloth.

What’s more, they’re also hard to damage. Because roller blackout shades don’t have small parts and aren’t aluminum, they don’t get bent out of shape. 

The Perfect Blinds for Student Dorms

If you’re interested in outfitting your student dorms with roller blackout blinds, Domir is the place to go. Domir Blinds is a blinds manufacturer in Toronto. That means, when you order from us, you get the lowest price possible – especially on bulk orders. Let us know if you have any questions about our ordering process. We look forward to hearing from you.

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April 30, 2023

Roller Shades for Office Windows

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Roller Shades for Office Windows

Keeping an office functional requires many considerations. In the modern era, one such consideration is lighting control. Maybe 80 years ago, more light was a better thing. It would have made it easier to see that paper you’re hunched over. However, these days, we’ve all got computer screens – and those are no friend to sunlight. Here are some reasons why roller shades are the right choice for office windows.

Clean, Sleek Look

Roller shades have a lot of benefits, visually. First and foremost, they have a very clean, sleek appearance to them. Their simplistic design fits well in an office space. If your office aesthetic is utilitarian, they fit right in. If it’s not, well, they don’t distract from whatever fabulous decor you have displayed. They’re a great, no-nonsense look for any office.

Plus, a simply design like roller shades for office windows is great at preventing distraction as well as light leaking. They completely block out what’s going on outside when closed. 

If you incorporate side channels, not even the very edges can give way to the afternoon sun. That can make all the difference in employee focus. After all, slatted blinds have holes in them for their ladder strings. Even one of those tiny holes can put a bright sunspot right in the middle of someone’s computer screen. Roller shades remove that risk completely.

Blackout and Screen

Blackout roller shades are the perfect choice if you want to banish sunlight for good – at least when the blinds are down. Pairing them with side channels and lowering them completely is like removing the window. However, if you’re not aiming to remove all of the sunlight, we’ve got another option.

Roller screens come with all of the simplicity of design that blackout shades do, but without the sun-banishing effect. Roller screens, instead, filter light. This prevents direct sunlight from getting inside and, instead, offers an ambient glow. If you work in an office that thrives on a bright, airy space, this is a great solution.

Corporate or Home Office

Roller shades are great for office windows in corporate buildings or in home offices. All of the benefits are present in both spaces. However, something extra to consider for home offices is that these shades are easy to clean and offer privacy as well. Roller screens are possible to see outside through, but prevent others from looking back in. These one-way screens are perfect for enjoying the view without screen glare or nosy neighbors looking back at you.

Buying in Bulk From Domir

If you’re shopping for blinds for a corporate office, you have the added benefit of saving a lot of money from ordering bulk. Domir Blinds isn’t a retailer; we’re the manufacturer. That means you don’t have to pay all of that extra overhead retailers tack on to pay their employees. With us, you get the lowest possible prices for our products. Ready to outfit an entire office building? Give us a call and we can get started on your order.

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April 30, 2023

The Best Blinds for Elderly Residents and Homeowners

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The Best Blinds for Elderly Residents and Homeowners

Growing old comes with a number of new needs and difficulties. For some, it means it’s more difficult to reach and pull something like a blinds cord. For others, it means they need another hour or two of sleep each night to stay awake all day. These are just natural parts of getting on in years. However, those difficulties can make the kind of blinds you get that much more important. So, here are some blinds that work best for elderly care home residents or elderly homeowners.

Blinds with Total Light Control

If you have a hard time reaching and pulling on a cord, what’s the obvious solution? Blinds that don’t need to be opened and closed all the time. If you want to control the lighting in your home without pulling the blinds up and down, you can achieve that with the Ninet.

The Ninet is a special Domir Blinds design that combines slatted blinds with a fabric exterior lining. When kept “closed” with the slats open, sunlight is free to travel nicely into your home. However, UV is filtered, there are no direct sunrays to glare off glasses and screens, and you maintain your privacy. 

Adjusting the slats inside the blinds is easier than lifting or lowering the blinds entirely. Adjusting the slats can lower the amount of light coming in, all the way down to nothing. You’re in complete control of the amount of light, all without having to put your biceps to work.

Automated, Remote Control Blinds

Speaking of lifting blinds being difficult, there’s an even easier solution. Any set of blinds bought from Domir Blinds can be automated. Not only does this allow you to live free of blinds cord pulling, it also means more design options.

Our automated blinds turn your nearest smart device into a remote control for your blinds. So, if you’re ready to put those blinds down for the night, just navigate out of the game you’ve been working on, go to the Somfy app, and tell your blinds what to do.

What’s even better than a remote control? Not having to do anything at all. Automation takes remote control one step further. If you always put your blinds down at 6pm, you can simply tell the app to do that for you. Then, every night at 6pm, the blinds will go down. Want them back up at 8am? It can do that too.

Why You Should Buy Domir Blinds

If you’re in the market for new blinds and aren’t sure where you’re buying yet, we do recommend ourselves – naturally. However, there are reasons why Domir is the best option – especially if you’re buying blinds for an entire assisted living or retirement home. Because we’re the manufacturer, you can bulk order blinds from us and save a lot of overhead. Department and hardware stores have to pay their employees somehow. That somehow just happens to mean charging you more. So, if you’re interested in learning more, we would love to hear from you!

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March 28, 2023

Luxurious Curtains That Are More Than Curtains

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Luxurious Curtains That Are More Than Curtains

Want to cover your windows with something elegant but effective? Say goodbye to blinds and say goodbye to traditional curtains. You can have the elegance of luxurious curtains and the light control of blinds by making one simple purchase: sheer vertical blinds. These blinds from Domir Blinds have everything.

They Look Like Curtains

Like the soft, elegant appearance of curtains? Sheer vertical blinds may be called blinds, but they’re made of fabric and look like luxurious curtains. Not only does this provide you with an elegant cover for your windows, it also means customizable colors. Unlike hard blinds, curtains are perfect for exercising your love of color. Colored fabrics are gentle and personal – inviting all of your guests to step into your visual world as soon as they step into your home. Sheer vertical blinds are as customizable as standard curtains, but come jam packed with more features.

Three Layers of Light Control

The defining feature of sheer vertical blinds is that they come in two layers. The first layer is a sheer piece of fabric that allows in ambient sunlight from outside. However, it filters the UV from that sunlight and prevents direct rays of sun from bothering you. So, no more screen glare, sunburns, damaged plants, sun-bleached fabrics, or any other headache caused by UV.

The second layer of fabric is a thick, blackout material. Closing this layer prevents any light at all from entering your window. Therefore, you can have it all – complete exposure, filtered exposure, or none at all.

More Privacy

Did you think that’s all there was to these blinds? Fortunately, there’s more where that came from. That sheer layer we mentioned does more than filter sunlight, it also creates a one-way privacy effect. Therefore, you can cover your window with the sheer layer, allowing you to enjoy the sunlight and complete privacy. No one outside can look in, but you can still enjoy the views from your home.

Increased Insulation

Many people may not realize it, but there’s more to blinds than light control. Blinds are also important for window insulation. This is especially true for windows that aren’t well insulated by themselves.

Sheer vertical blinds are perfect for insulating large windows. The sheer fabric may not do a lot, but the blackout layer is great insulation. Protect your home from outside cold by closing both layers and adding another degree of temperature separation between you and the great outdoors.

Buy Domir Blinds

If you’re in the Toronto area, Domir Blinds is the perfect place to order your sheer vertical blinds. Domir Blinds is a manufacturer, which means you can cut out the middle man. What does that mean, exactly? Well, department and hardware stores buy blinds from us, then sell them to you for a higher price. Skip the higher price tag and buy them straight from us. When you shop Domir, you can easily outfit your entire house in one easy order. Just give us a call if you have questions, need a quote, or would like some help ordering.

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