Budget Blinds
One way to get all of your window treatments done on a reasonable budget is to decide well in advance exactly, what your goals are in each room of the house. You may need very elaborate and beautiful blinds in the dining room where you will be entertaining a great deal. But then you might be able to get away with some very inexpensive but functional mini blinds in bedrooms or bathrooms where it will be "just family" and you don't need your blinds to be high fashion.
By being pragmatic and practical about what the goals you wish to achieve with your blinds, you can cut down on the costs tremendously. For example, if you narrow down the amount of windows that need high fashion blinds and find perhaps that you can go with covering half of your windows with mini blinds, that one decision can have a huge impact on your budget for blinds.
Mini blinds have the value of being tremendously effective and durable and being a great bargain at the same time. If you have a lot of expenses with your interior decorating program, you could go with mini blinds for all of the windows and then go back and replace them with more style conscious choices one by one as the budget allows. This is a prudent approach that gets you the blinds you need without pushing your budget over the edge thus keeping you from finishing other important aspects of your interior decorating scheme.
Another way you can bring down the costs of getting new blinds for your home is to avoid retail situations. As it true with a lot of expensive items, the used market is an active place where you can get some good deals for very little. Often when someone buys a used home, they may wish to outfit the entire house in new blinds. So if they want to get rid of the old blinds which may be perfectly functional, that old set might go up for sale on one of the better online auction sites like EBay or Craigslist. Craigslist is a particularly good resource for you to find used blinds because it connects you with others in your community who want to sell their blinds so you can go to where the blinds are currently installed and measure them and inspect them for damage before buying the goods.
Just make sure you bring that same savvy as a shopper that you show in other purchase decisions to this next step in your home remodeling of buying blinds. By looking for good deals and knowing how to shop the online stores, you often can get a very good set of blinds for you home far below retail.