Curtains or blinds?

In the area of dressing up your windows, I would be torn on whether to use curtains or blinds. Blinds need to be utterly presentalbe. I would say the same for curtains but you basically have more pattern and design choices for curtains. If you could afford a Hunter Douglas, well and good! But if not, you have to go and get a presentable set of window blinds.

The reason I am writing about this is because windows are a part of most restaurant structures and dressing up your windows is part of your ambience.

You might even choose to use neither. However, this is an important decision specially in tropical countries. Curtains make a place look soft, comfortable and homey. Blinds on the other hand, make a place look spic and span, neat, modern, clean cut.

As to which is more practical, blinds give you one-set of a look. Curtains give you more flexibility. If you wash your curtains, you probably need another set of curtains while the other set is drying. With blinds, you clean them up, wipe them dry and they are done.

However, what would be the most important factor or question to answer is if a curtain or blinds are what you need for the ambience that you want to create.