Combi Blinds with Wooden Floors: Ideas for a Modern Filipino Home - Pasig installation

The ultimate formula to making or perfecting a Filipino’s house is its transformation into a home. A home where family members could feel safe and taken care of and properly accommodated. This being the case, and aside from having nurturing family members, Filipino homes should constitute interior and decor aiming for this type of comfort, privacy, and safety. Fortunately, we have products such as blinds, carpets, and drapes to aid in transforming houses into homes. In today’s article, we will dive deep into a common yet very effective mix and match of combi blinds and wooden floors installed for our Pasig client’s house. 

Combi blinds, also known as dual or zebra blinds because of their appearance, are a modern type of window covering. They work like most blind types and also let you control light and enhance a room’s aesthetic. The blinds are made from a fabric with stripes that alternate between see-through and solid sheets. This fabric rolls around a tube or a casing at the top of the window. Using a chain or cord, you can raise or lower the blinds and line up the stripes just how you want. 

Tailored Light and Privacy: Why Combi Shades are the Ideal Choice for Any Room - Makati Project

One evident way to stay in the market is to adhere and listen to customer preferences. To be more accommodating to clients, businesses left and right manufacture and advertise their products as something customizable. This way, customers are more enticed to purchase and are assured that an item is worth the price. Other benefits of personalization or tailoring products include having a competitive advantage as a business as well as encouraging a creative and innovative environment.

What better way to illustrate this point than to expand on combi shades for this article?

Combi shades, from its name, have double-layered fabric, making it the wise choice for flexible lighting. These blinds are made up of sheer and solid fabric, alternating against one another for a more tailored light and privacy. The control mechanism attached to combi shades is either a loop chain or a stick.

Pleated Combi Shades Wine Color - Lucena City Project

One of our client is blessed to have a vacation house in Lucena city, Quezon province.  A small vacation property to accommodate their family's holiday vacations and to be away from the busy life of urban living in Metro Manila.  They use to prefer curtains as window cover however they realized later on that whenever they arrive at their vacation house dust already accumulated in their curtains.

To avoid this maintenance issues, they purchased pleated combi shades with wine color since blinds and shades in general are easier to clean and maintain.  Compared to curtains, blinds and shades have a smaller surface area where dust and insects can stick.  It is also generally easier to clean by just using small vacuum cleaner or wet damp cloth.

Curtains and draperies require diligent maintenance, ideally should be replaced and put to laundry after a week or two due to settling of dust.  Mosquitoes and other insects sometimes also lurks on it.  So for houses that are always empty like when residents are frequently away, curtains are not actually advisable unless you have a full-time care taker of the house.