Metal or Plastic?  

Plastic. They're cheaper, easier to maintain and the more innovative brands also come up with really stylish designs. The metal one's, i feel are so hard to maintain because they could bend and lose their original form. Although of course both have advantages and disadvantages. One disadvantage for the plastic ones is when they are not maintained properly, you can never get them backtotheir original color. The colors becomes dull and since its plastic, no amount of bleaching cleaning would make them look brand new again. But then you got them cheap, right?

i have plastic blinds on every window in my flat. i like plastic blinds better than metal as they are easier to clean

Hello my friend what I like and I want them but they are too expensive. I want the wood blinds. They make your house look so nice and I love to fix my house up. Right now I have the plastic ones. They are so cheap.LOL What can I say I have expensive taste.LOL

I have blinds on all my windows but they are neither metal or plastic.....I use to use the metal ones until they had that big lead poisoning scare from them and the plastic ones break to easy.....mine are wood and also my favorite....they don't break if you 'peek' through them and they are so easy to wipe clean

I have the vertical blinds in my front living room.but I have the fabric kind.I don't like the plastic because they break to easy and get dirty to fast.fabric kinds never break

I don't have blinds, I have shades and curtains. But I love the wood blinds, they are expensive so I would only purchase them if I had my own home. I would not buy them for an apartment because they probably would not fit in another place. I have had plastic blinds and they are nice and cheap and easier to take care of then the metal ones. Take care...

i love the plastic ones ...they seem to last longer than the metal ones ..plus for clean up take them out spray them with the waterhose and a little degreaser and rinse ...let dry and boom look good as new ... the old metal ones tend to bent oo the the paint cracks and then they can start to rust...I really like the new wooden ones ...but I think they are going to be a problem to keep clean as they are so much wider then the others ..but they look very nice ...

We use plastic, because, well, actually there's several reason. They're cheaper, QUIETER, (ahem, sorry, i've got a four year old that already makes enough noise for a small country) Easier to clean, don't have to worry about rust, and....are they recyclable? i don't know if i can list that without actually knowing. And the metal are probably recyclable too..hm.. All in all, plastic. How bout you? Metal or plastic?

I have a mixture of metal and plastic in my home. In two rooms where black blinds were what was needed in terms of decorating, I ordered black metal ones. In the one room where white was okay, I have a plastic one! The rest of my windows do not have blinds at all. All my blinds are horizontal blinds.

omgosh it's so funny that you would bring up this topic because what has happend to our plastic blinds in our bedroom is something that I have never seen before in my life! We put the plastic on our windows the kind that you shrink with a blowdryer and i guess from the heat of the sun and the plastic the blinds melted! Can you believe it? I attached a photo of it. LOL! So I would have to say I think I prefer the metal ones after this.