When you visit a window blinds store you often wonder whether to select Venetian or Roller blinds for your windows. Frankly, which of the two you select depends on precise functionality you require. Here's how you select between the two:

A roller blinds is made from a single piece of fabric that is rolled around a cylinder and usually attached to the top of the window. When you need to unfurl it, you just pull it down and latch it onto a hook attached to the bottom of the window.

Some roller blinds are spring loaded while some are not. The spring loaded ones will auto-retract the moment they are unhooked from the bottom window. So the spring loaded roller blinds are either open or closed. The non-spring loaded variety ... Read more »