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?
Robin (Masshole Mommy) says
How awesome is that? We have the tied up string version in our house.
Molly says
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…
Jenna Wood says
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!
latanya says
I like the Bali: Bali Economy 2″ Fauxwood Blinds
David says
We have a den/play room that needs new blinds and shades.
Jennifer says
Every room in my house needs new shades. We have the old style, and they’re all busted and horrible looking.
Daisy says
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.
Tammy Litke (@threedifferent) says
Our daughter’s bedroom or our dining room!
Olivia Hamilton says
I would love to redo my living room! Both of my kids are always playing with the pull strings on ours.
Kerry says
this would be Great in our new house especially in the kids room/ play room
Amber Camm says
We would use them in every room that was accessible by our kids!
Kristin says
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.
Janel says
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!
Amber Edwards says
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. 🙂
jose gueits says
i will use it at the living room
Jessica says
I would use it for our living room.
Jill @ Real Life Notes says
With a new little one on the way, I need to add blinds to our 3rd bedroom so it can become a nursery!
Kimberly says
I would use this to get blinds for our bedroom.
Stefany says
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!
Pam says
I had no clue that blinds were so dangerous. I am glad that there is a safer option.
Tosh says
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.
Marilyn Nawara says
I would put it toward new blinds for my living room.
Amy Desrosiers says
I would use the $100 GC to buy a large blind for my picture window. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Dee Mauser says
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.
Liz Mays says
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.
Jennifer Williams says
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.
Jen Temcio @ Dapperhouse says
I really love this post. Most people don’t realize just how dangerous regular blinds can be.
Kelly Stilwell says
There are so many choices for blinds out there, and they all look better than the standard ones.
Debi @ The Spring Mount 6 Pack says
We’re thinking about getting new blinds. Our old ones are so ugly, and they’re so hard to clean!
Laura J says
Oh I would love to use it for my bedroom!
Brett says
We were always tying up those strings in our house. Love these!
Stacie says
It’s scary, all those injuries you hear about from something so simple as blinds!
Lyndsey says
For my kitchen!
Dominique says
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!
Danielle Porter says
I would put the Faux Wood Vertical Blinds in our living room!
jennifer says
I love the woven wood grommet panels!
Stephanie Phelps says
I could use it for my dining room. I have no blinds in there!
Mary Beth Elderton says
I’d love new blinds fr the two windows in our bedroom
DeAnna Keller says
I would use it for our living room.
katrina g says
great giveaway! i would put blinds in my living room. there is one window that needs something.
cyndi br says
I will use this in my office
Jessica Pinkard says
Its a toss up between my bedroom and my living room.
Diane Cooper says
This would be used for new blinds for my living room.
Tatiana B. says
This would actually be for the new house we’re going to build 🙂
Wendy Pesce says
We need blinds for the family room and my sons room
Tammy Woodall says
I would use the Gift Card for Blinds for my bedroom.
Holly Mitkowski says
I would use it for my kitchen!
Tonya Bohannon says
I would use it for our bedroom and our livingroom! We definitely could use some better quality blinds in those rooms!
Amber says
If I won I would get new blinds in my kids bedrooms.
Angela Saver says
I would put blinds in my living room!
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Connie says
I would put them in our living room because the shades we have now have seen better days! 🙂
Holly E says
I would use it for my bedroom windows.
Deanna Middendorf says
The living room needs updated big time!!
Randi says
I need to replace the blinds throughout out entire house but I would probably start in the family room or my bedroom.
Helga/billsn beaks says
I would replace all my blinds which are falling apart.
Mary Happymommy says
I would use them in the family room.
Darlene Owen says
I would use this for blinds in my bedroom.
Leigh Anne Borders says
I would put them up in my bedrooms.
Michele Cupp says
I would use the gift card for window coverings in my kitchen. My windows have no treatments in that room
Jocelyn says
I would use them in our living room or family room!
Wendy R. says
We need blinds on the stairwell windows. 🙂
meredith says
I would use this on my bedroom
kathy dalton says
Id buy the congo spice shades
Alysia dufraine says
If I won I would use them in the new baby room. This would be so awesome
liz l says
The computer room for sure
Sarah M says
Would love to use in living room. Needs update!
Raina DelRio says
I would use it in my living room and kids room
Tina W says
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!
Audra says
My living room needs new curtains
Cheryl B. says
I would use this for my living room windows.
Diana Flynn says
I would use it for my living room! Thanks!
Alison Gibb says
I would use this giftcard for blinds for my bedroom.
Amanda Sakovitz says
id use it for my bedroom
leeann boggs says
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.
Kemi Quinn says
I think I would use it in my homeschool/craft room. We need blinds everywhere since we just moved.
Rebecca says
I would use this in a bedroom.
claire says
bedrm
Les Johnson says
I will use them for my home office. It has several big windows.
Sarah Cool says
I would use it in my living room 🙂
Wehaf says
We’d use this in our master bedroom.
Maureen says
I would use this in the kitchen!
Kayci Stanley says
I would love new blinds for our bedroom.
Thomas Murphy says
I would use it for my bedroom.
Yolanda S says
I would put them in my toddler son’s room.