There are many blinds you can get that are made out of a variety of different materials.  A lot of people, however, like the ‘wooden’ look – whether it is faux or imitation wooden blinds, or real wooden blinds that are made out of hard woods such as basswood or cedar, or even bamboo.  The question is, once you have decided that you want the ‘wooden look’ for your home, should you buy faux wood blinds, or do you want to go for real wood blinds, which, it must be noted, are a bit more expensive than the faux ones, depending on the kind of wood they are made from.

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Faux wooden blinds and real wooden blinds do not look all that different from each other.  You will not be able to instantly tell, from a distance, whether the blinds are made from wood or faux wood. Faux wooden blinds do have the advantage of being cheaper than those made from real wood, which can be a plus if you are looking for cheap plantation shutters or cheap wood venetian blinds.  They also have the advantage that you can hang them pretty much in any room you want without being worried about damaging them, whereas with real wooden blinds, you have to be careful not to expose them to too much humidity or the wood will warp and get ruined.  That means that hanging wooden blinds in the kitchen would not be really very smart, nor would hanging them in the bathroom.  If you live in an area where the weather frequently gets humid, you may find getting real wooden blinds to be out of the question.

The one distinctive advantage that wooden blinds have, however, is that they are lighter than faux wooden blinds, as incredible as that sounds.  That means if you cover a large window with wooden blinds it will be easier for you to pull them up and down than if you bought faux or imitation wooden blinds.