I appreciate Blinds.comfor partnering with me to learn about the importance of safer window coverings! Not only did they help me to update the look of the house, my children are now safer, too. Learn more about child-safe window coverings and how you can win a $100 or $2,500 gift card from Blinds.com.
Like every expectant parent, whenever my husband and I were preparing our home for #1, we did everything the “book” said to do. We installed locks on the cabinets and drawers as well as removed any sharp corners. We inserted a 1,000+ plastic prongs in the outlets. We removed all those cute trinkets around the house that gave it character that could possibly be found in a little one’s reach and ultimately their mouth. We tied up every blind in the house so there wasn’t a string that the baby could get caught in and choke.
Basically, we prepped the house for Reo Recon. And man it wasn’t pretty.
Stepping into many other friends’ homes, the same window-tie up method has left a pretty ugly mess of their blinds and that’s if they actually did anything. Many people don’t even know that having corded blinds or shades is a real hazard to a home with kids.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, about once a month a child between 7 months and 10 years dies from window cord strangulation and another child suffers from a near strangulation.
However, with so many options now available, parents can completely remove the risk by choosing many of the child-safe styles on Blinds.com, like the ones I just installed, the Levolor Accordia Light Filtering Cellular Shades in Whisper.
While when I first began looking, I didn’t know where to start or exactly sure what choices were “out there,” but I was able to use this helpful quiz to guide me through all the options available like cellular shades vs. honeycomb shades. If I needed even more help, I could also chat with an agent for free assistance to ask questions. With free shipping and free samples, Blinds.com can guide you through every step of the process to ensure you make the right choice for your home! And even if you make a mistake like I did with my Levolor shades, their pledge is if a Levolor brand product doesn’t fit (no matter whose fault it is) Levolor will remake your blinds or shades for free. Blinds.com offers the same promise with our SureFit guarantee to cover ANY product sold on Blinds.com! Incredible policy!
While replacing your window coverings with cordless blinds or shades is the only real way to remove the strangulation risk, there are several tips available from Blinds.com than you can do NOW to make your home a little safer. For instance, if you have an older home like me, you can actually order a free window cord retrofit kit from www.windowcoverings.org.
If you are in the business of shopping for replacement blinds for your home or childproofing your home for your first child, now’s a great time to buy window covers during the Safer For Kids Collection sale, running all October long! And to sweeten the deal, Blinds.com is also offering $100 Blinds.com Gift Card to one MamaChallenge reader to help you find your perfectly safe window coverings.
No matter how good the deals are, if you have 35 windows that need new window coverings, you’re going to need more than $100. Thankfully, Blinds.com is also hosting a giveaway for $2,500 Gift Card on Blinds.com, so make sure to enter their contest to increase your odds of winning, while decreasing your risk of child safety issues!
If you win $100 Blinds.com Gift Card, which room of you house will you use it in?
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How awesome is that? We have the tied up string version in our house.
Love it! I am so sick of trying to put the strings high on our blinds – and we have 3 windows we need to reblind…
If I won I’d give our Master Bedroom a makeover, it has no privacy and the light interference is way too much in the longer Fall days! I never knew there were so many styles of blinds!
I like the Bali: Bali Economy 2″ Fauxwood Blinds
We have a den/play room that needs new blinds and shades.
Every room in my house needs new shades. We have the old style, and they’re all busted and horrible looking.
I have blinds like the ones in your first photo. We need to replace a few though because of an issue where my son decided to get crazy with markers.
Our daughter’s bedroom or our dining room!
I would love to redo my living room! Both of my kids are always playing with the pull strings on ours.
this would be Great in our new house especially in the kids room/ play room
We would use them in every room that was accessible by our kids!
I’ve seen these at a friends house and loved them. Made for a safe play area with little ones instead of the fear the crawling baby will pull on the string.
I would absolutely love to get blackout roller shades for our bedroom!!! The sun comes up on that side of the house and we like it pitch black!
I absolutely love that they have cordless features! I would replace our Livingroom windows. I hate the cord in there. We have wood blinds in half of our house, I think the rest needs to catch up with the times. 🙂
i will use it at the living room
I would use it for our living room.
With a new little one on the way, I need to add blinds to our 3rd bedroom so it can become a nursery!
I would use this to get blinds for our bedroom.
We desperately need new blinds in our living room. The animals (and kids) have broken so many of the slats and they are now hideous. I love how safe these are for children!
I had no clue that blinds were so dangerous. I am glad that there is a safer option.
We tied the strings up but knowing the potential is still there makes me so nervous, I’m going to have to get some of these.
I would put it toward new blinds for my living room.
I would use the $100 GC to buy a large blind for my picture window. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Since our 1 year old grandson is currently living with us, we definitely need to change out our blinds for those that don’t have the pull strings. He is into everything. I wish I could afford the wood blinds. They look so nice and only have a wand to open and close the set.
I think I’d change the blinds in the front room. They’re so hard to use and they stick so I have to pull them down by hand.
We close on our new house next month, I need blinds everywhere. I love these, we have kids and pets so safer is a great option.
I really love this post. Most people don’t realize just how dangerous regular blinds can be.
There are so many choices for blinds out there, and they all look better than the standard ones.
We’re thinking about getting new blinds. Our old ones are so ugly, and they’re so hard to clean!
Oh I would love to use it for my bedroom!
We were always tying up those strings in our house. Love these!
It’s scary, all those injuries you hear about from something so simple as blinds!
For my kitchen!
We just moved and with the exception of one window in my living room and my kids room, there’s no blinds or curtains. lol. Need to get on that! This would help a lot! A good quality blind really does make a difference in your heating and cooling bill! Thanks!
I would put the Faux Wood Vertical Blinds in our living room!
I love the woven wood grommet panels!
I could use it for my dining room. I have no blinds in there!
I’d love new blinds fr the two windows in our bedroom
I would use it for our living room.
great giveaway! i would put blinds in my living room. there is one window that needs something.
I will use this in my office
Its a toss up between my bedroom and my living room.
This would be used for new blinds for my living room.
This would actually be for the new house we’re going to build 🙂
We need blinds for the family room and my sons room
I would use the Gift Card for Blinds for my bedroom.
I would use it for my kitchen!
I would use it for our bedroom and our livingroom! We definitely could use some better quality blinds in those rooms!
If I won I would get new blinds in my kids bedrooms.
I would put blinds in my living room!
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I would put them in our living room because the shades we have now have seen better days! 🙂
I would use it for my bedroom windows.
The living room needs updated big time!!
I need to replace the blinds throughout out entire house but I would probably start in the family room or my bedroom.
I would replace all my blinds which are falling apart.
I would use them in the family room.
I would use this for blinds in my bedroom.
I would put them up in my bedrooms.
I would use the gift card for window coverings in my kitchen. My windows have no treatments in that room
I would use them in our living room or family room!
We need blinds on the stairwell windows. 🙂
I would use this on my bedroom
Id buy the congo spice shades
If I won I would use them in the new baby room. This would be so awesome
The computer room for sure
Would love to use in living room. Needs update!
I would use it in my living room and kids room
I would get some honeycomb shades for my spare room.
We have the Levalor Room-Darkening shades in the living room and master bedroom and they are AWESOME!
My living room needs new curtains
I would use this for my living room windows.
I would use it for my living room! Thanks!
I would use this giftcard for blinds for my bedroom.
id use it for my bedroom
I will use this gift card for the blinds in my bedroom and my son’s bedroom. Our rooms only have one window a piece.
I think I would use it in my homeschool/craft room. We need blinds everywhere since we just moved.
I would use this in a bedroom.
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I will use them for my home office. It has several big windows.
I would use it in my living room 🙂
We’d use this in our master bedroom.
I would use this in the kitchen!
I would love new blinds for our bedroom.
I would use it for my bedroom.
I would put them in my toddler son’s room.