Budget Blinds serving Morgan Hill

January 2009, 6 years ago, we purchased a home in Los Banos; I called Mr. Scagliotti at Budget Blinds in Gilroy, for a consultation. I knew that I wanted Plantation Blinds, but could not imagine how they were going look. Mr. Scagliotti spent time with me and reassured me that the windows were going to look lovely. After 6 years our plantation blinds still look as beautiful as the day John (Mr. Scagliotti’s installer) put them in. I am so pleased! The service was excellent, the product and workmanship are exemplary. My windows are beautiful inside and outside. Blinds make your house look more beautiful!

Well, I did get the blinds, but they are a less than good quality, installed after too long a wait, with questionable quality of installation — holes drilled to nowhere. Ed was rude to me– very poor customer relationship.
I did save a couple bucks, but overall, nah!

I have now had two experiences with budget blinds in Gilroy. Not sure if he is the same person serving Morgan Hill and Gilroy. Budget blinds were recommended to me from a sales agent for our new home in Gilroy. When Ed came out I found him to be rather impersonal, a little impatient, and felt rushed through the process. I recall him getting upset and frustrated when my cell phone rang. In addition, he had said the he would provide temporary window shades (those one’s you buy at home depot) and when I asked for them after the purchase, I felt like I was bothering him to even get them. Moving forward, we are moving into a new home and I thought I’d try to contact them and spoke with his wife — who over the phone seems very nice. I told her what I was looking for and knew she already had the measurements (shutters). She told me I would be remarkably surprised at the price I would get, as I had small windows. When I got the quote it was minus two windows and two arched panels, and quite frankly, I thought it was high. I politely responded back asking informing them that I had gotten a lower price and if they could come down a bit, as their bid was much higher than a vinyl shutter, and I got a short, brief, impersonal response back from Ed, basically telling me that shutters are expensive and tried to say if I wanted to go with Vinyl go on ahead. I felt his response was incredibly rude, not helpful, and characteristic of this guy. Did he even try to work with me? No! Was I a return customer? Absolutely! The only reason this guy gets business is because of his name being given by the new home representatives. In this day and time, people have to earn my business. As a customer — repeat customer — I deserve respect, as does everybody. There are too many options out there and I will take my business elsewhere.

What a pure disappointment. We chose this company for custom roller shades, based on 3 reasons: competitive prices, perceived variety of fabrics, and perceived integrity of owners. They sell shades by Horizons Shades.
There were originally mistakes in the measurements the owner took. It took us a few calls back and forth try to sort it out, with not a very welcome attitude from the owner.
First delivery, included wrong sizes/​frayed edges/​disgruntled installer and overall an unfinished job. After 2 – 3 weeks of trying to prove them the sub-​standard quality, they had to re-​order the entire job. 5 weeks later, the correct material arrived but they had no installer to hang the work. It took another few weeks of calls and begging and cries to hang the blinds.
We finally had an installation in place, 5 months after the original order date.
We hate the quality of material. The edges keep fraying and look unfinished. The hardware is very primitive and ugly. The material doesn’t roll up straight and it’s a constant challenge try to open or close them, they are never raised evenly. The valances looks like they were tailored by kids. A total disaster.
The owners are good people, I’m sure, just not able to run this business and are afflicted by a terrible material to sell. The lady owner is reasonable and she acknowledged the bad quality but the goods are so terrible that’s they are not salvageable. This is not a service I could recommend to anyone.

Contacted this company to install blinds on a home I intended to sell. Owner came to the house, did his sale presentation. We agreed to go with the company because we were pressed for time and didn’t want to shop around. A choice we later came to regret.
The experience I had with this company was so bad, it would take an essay to do it justice… But for the Unilocal consumers out there, unless you enjoy dealing with a hot-​headed owner who will threaten to sue you for mistakes he made not only in measurements, but in his installation timeline, don’t do business with this company! Fortunately, his wife has some business sense and was able to salvage this transaction short of a lawsuit. My wife and I thanked God that our blinds were installed and we could finally part ways with this business. It was THAT bad…

I just purchased my first home in Gilroy, CA. The home was new construction and did not come with blinds. The sales lady at the development suggested I call Ed Scagliotti at Budget Blinds to get a quote.
I really wanted shutters and knew they would be expensive so I decided to measure my windows and get a quote from Lowes, thinking that they would be cheaper. Lowes made it extremely difficult to get a quote (employee was clueless) and the numbers I got were really high! Most importantly you are required to measure your own windows which can be a little nerve racking. So I decided to finally give Ed a call.
Ed went to my home, measured my windows and then set up a time to give me a free quote. During our meeting Ed showed us all of the different options we had for all of our windows and sliding back door. He showed us the cheapest, middle and most expensive options. Ed was extremely knowledgeable about all of the window treatments and really helped us out during our decision making process. We ended up choosing all shutters except for the guest rooms and guest bathrooms. For those rooms we got standards blinds. (saved us quite a bit of money!) He informed us that shutters take 6 weeks and he would call us when they came in. While we were walking out, we were chased out by Ed who informed us that he had a cancelled shutter door slider that would fit our sliding glass door perfectly and match all the other treatments. He sold that to us at cost!
The shutters did indeed take almost exactly 6 weeks to arrive! The installer came in and spent ALL DAY carefully installing all of our shutters and blinds and cleaned up after himself. He also spent time showing us how each one worked. One shutter was accidentally ordered for a window we did not want to cover. Budget blinds was more than accommodating and did not charge us for the unwanted window treatment.
I am so happy with the finished product and definitely recommend budget blinds!
I’m sure you are all wondering about cost. I got 11 windows covered with shutters, 5 windows covered with standard blinds and my sliding door shutter for less than $ 4600.00.

I made arrangements for a consultation to get an estimate. I am looking to replace all my window treatments… about 25 in all. Ed comes in and immediately recommends a low end, cheap blind… without even asking me questions. When I told him what I was interested in, Roman Shades, he had difficulty finding them in his book. He then asked what my budget was and when I threw out a number he basically said that I couldn’t afford what I wanted and started to show me the low end stuff again. I told him that part of why I needed the estimate was because I had no idea how much new window treatments would cost and I was going to base my budget on the estimates that I got. He then told me that he could not give me that information, that his wife was the one who handled those items… she was in Morgan Hill and he tried to call her. After a few minutes of telling her where I lived… he informed me that they were going on vacation and if it would be OK to call me when they got back the following week. I said that was fine. That was over 3 weeks ago. I guess my Money isn’t as good as those who live in Morgan Hill… BTW, their office is here is Gilroy… but they «serve» Morgan Hill… I guess they cannot afford an office there.

This is really a review for the Gilroy Budget Blinds but i was unable to locate them on Unilocal.Ed and Linda are the best!!! We just had one of our honeycomb blinds break and with the lifetime warranty, they replaced it no charge within 1 ½ weeks of me calling it in! Thank you so much and we are soooo happy with our purchase!

I ordered some blinds from them and was totally ripped off. I told them the exact size I needed the blinds to be and they made them too small. I have used 3 day blinds for over 25 yrs with never a problem. I used budget blinds because the office I used to use for 3 day blinds closed and I now have to call a 800 #. Big mistake. They not only made a mistake they refused to fix it. I’m out $ 540 and have now gone back to 3 day blinds. They were very rude especially when I showed them the size on my receipt is not the same of the blinds. They are all 2 ½ in short in the width. There excuse is they always reduce the size to make them fit but I specifically told them I already did that and the size I’m giving is the size I want.

While the prices might be competitive, if you question Ed on any aspect of shutter design, to describe what you actually want, he doesn’t like it, and he turns rather unfriendly… I chose not to use them, I don’t want to be spoken to in a condescending manor, nor do I want to be dictated to.

I first learned about Budget Blinds from watching Undercover Boss on CBS. I’ve always kept the name in the back of my mind for a future home. Finally, at the end of July, my wife and I closed on our first home in Morgan Hill. With it being a brand new home, there were no window coverings at all and we felt we were living in a fish bowl. We knew we needed to get some sort of window coverings.
Since I’m not much of a handyman, my wife and I decided to hire a company to install them. At a recommendation of a friend, we called JC Penney. The rep came over and sat with us and eventually gave us an estimate. For 10 windows and 1 custom drape they wanted $ 3,300. We both almost fainted. Even with removing the drape the cost was still $ 2,200. Thanks but no thanks.
A couple of days later Ed from Budget Blinds stopped by to show us his goods. We had no idea what to expect but were willing to listen. He quickly got down to business and show us a few samples of blinds and we never brought up the drape in the bedroom. He measured the windows in the house and then proceeded to see down with us to go over the estimate. To our surprise, it was almost a $ 1,000 cheaper. He explained that if we ordered 10 or more windows that there would be a bigger discount, which we did.
About 3 weeks later the blinds finally arrived from the factory and the installer arrived to hang them. Ryan, the installer, was very pleasant and professional. He spent around 3 hours hanging everything and left no mess.
The blinds themselves are great. They are sized PERFECTLY and very easy to lift up and down. We chose faux wood with a wood finish, which looks great and the valance looks very stylish.
One of the blinds, was defective and when I contacted Ed he immediately ordered a new blind without asking any questions. The replacement blind finally arrived and Ed’s wife Linda personally delivered it to our home and it works great just like the others.
My wife and I have already recommended Ed and Budget Blinds to one of our friends, which we’re expected a gift card for. Not too shabby.
We are very pleased with our decision to go with Budget Blinds. The service was great, the price was great, and the blinds are great. THANK Ed and Linda!

The owners are really good and professional. I recently had an issue with the blind and they responded very fast and addressed my concerns within a few hours. I had an issue earlier related to installation which that can happen with anybody but they are honest and do their best to address your needs.
I would do business again and recommend budget blinds to anybody.

We got a quote from them, but I was not wow’d. A lot of the neighbors used this company because our home builder gave us a voucher. They seemed reasonable in cost, but he didn’t seem thrilled to spend time talking to me about options. It’s like he just figured he would do the house because I had the voucher. I’ve never had to put blinds in a house and really wanted some options and to see samples, etc. he had a small book of samples that he brought in, but other companies that came to give quotes brought actual product to show us. The responsiveness was great for how fast they were able to come out, but still. He left and I didn’t feel comfortable with the way he approached the situation. As a first time (new) home buyer, we have a lot of expenses and when I asked questions about different cost options or when I stopped to call my husband to ask a question about an option he seemed halfway annoyed with my ignorance. I’m a software engineer… I know nothing about blinds or shutters! Throw me a bone :)

We recently purchased a home in the area and after comparing the fees and professionalism of several national companies, big-​box retailers, and online retailers we selected Ed at Budget Blinds.
There are many positive things to say about Budget Blinds, but here are our most favorite:
1. Ed (our rep) was responsive — willing to come measure within 48 hours after leaving a message at his office. The other vendors kept changing their appt. dates, the big-​box retailers couldn’t get their scheduling system to work, and the online folks said «Good Luck with the Measurements! — See our video on YouTube.»
2. Ed had some great ideas on what would work for our particular window designs and there was no pressure to cover «all the windows.» He even came back a couple times to verify colors with my wife and re-​measure a window we thought would be difficult to cover with shutters.
3. The pricing was reasonable. It was not the least expensive, but we wanted to support a local business in the area and receive the benefit of the warranties that Budget Blinds offers. Regarding pricing, Budget was better than the Big-​Box retailers, which surprised me.
4. Ed was knowledgeable on manufacturing techniques and standards of all the products he represented and the current condition of competitive brands we thought were the «Gold Standard» from the last time we purchased blinds in another state (10 years ago).
5. The office staff on the phone at Budget blinds are ALWAYS friendly and knowledgeable — Ed has a great team of folks supporting him.
6. The service from the installation team was excellent — they moved efficiently and picked up trash as they worked, leaving the place better than they had found it. They managed not to wake our baby even after installing nearly 20 blinds (double thumbs up for that)
I have no buyers remorse from working with Budget Blinds and would gladly recommend them to anyone in the market for blinds.