Budget Blinds of Santa Cruz

We’ve used them twice now and we’re very happy with the consultation process, the price, and the final installation and results. Very professional and easy to work with!

These guys are great. Their prices beat the competition, their measurements and installation were flawless, including one complicated window in our very modern house. If there’s a flaw in their process, it’s that you may need to nudge them to find out if your blinds are ready if they’re super busy with other work. But they show up when they say they will, they do the work and they’re nice people. We were totally satisfied.

Eric and Judy did a great job. They installed a difficult corner blind in my bedroom which I was told by Advanced could not be done. It looks great! They also installed Hunter Douglas blinds throughout my entire home. They beat Costco/​Home Depot and Advanced Blind’s bids. In short, this is a small company with excellent service and good pricing. I highly recommend them over the others aforementioned companies. Love my new Hunter Douglas shutters!

Eric and Judy are the best! We’ve worked with them on three projects, large and small, and each was an effortless collaboration. Not only are they well versed in product knowledge and design, they are always available. Each phone call I made was answered or returned promptly. We recently moved from Santa Cruz to San Jose, and Eric took it upon himself to call and correspond with other franchisees to make our collaboration on this side of the hill possible. Eric and Judy are the epitome of kind, professional and caring business owners, and we will use them for any future projects without hesitation!

Eric and Judy are the best! We’ve worked with them on three projects, large and small, and each was an effortless collaboration. Not only are they well versed in product knowledge and design, they are always available. Each phone call I made was answered or returned promptly. We recently moved from Santa Cruz to San Jose and Eric took it upon himself to call and correspond with other frachisees to make our collaboration on this side of the hill possible. Eric and Judy are the epitome of kind, professional and caring business owners, and we will use them for any future projects without hesitation!

I am thrilled beyond words at how happy I am with my new shutters. This family owned business, a husband and wife team are dynamos! The service is incredible, the workmanship stellar. I highly recommend them, and in my opinion, I haven’t experienced better customer service. I have tried several other local companies and was not this satisfied. It is not only nice to support local companies, but feels even better when they are generally really good, honest, sincere, and kind people that strive to do the best work possible, with the goal being your satisfaction. I am grateful to have met and know Eric & Judy and highly recommend utilizing their services.

I could not be happier with both the service and product provided by Eric and Judy at Budget Blinds. After buying a new house, and needing window coverings for the entire house, I had two different companies come out for estimates. Prices were very close, but Budget Blinds easily won out in customer service, as Eric spent the time to educate me, help me select colors and was generally a pleasure to deal with. He was also able to offer me a single honeycomb blind for a very wide window, which the other company could not. Because of my budget, I started small — ordering coverings for only half of the windows, but Eric was patient and never pushy. He came out a second time when I was ready to move forward with the next batch of windows. He and Judy just came out today to install those, as well as a beautiful window film (looks like frosted glass, but better) Eric suggested for a 10-​lite exterior door. It is the perfect solution for that door. I highly recommend this company — professional, punctual and they have a great product.

Wonderful service, quality workmanship! This husband and wife team just finished installing my shutters and I am thrilled. These two are very experienced and were a delight to work with. Couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Price was right too!

My experience with this company could not have been better! Having just purchased a new home with no window coverings, I needed to get window treatments up ASAP! Eric and Judy worked with my schedule and were professional and accommodating. They offered a wide variety of products and were able to stay within my price range. Eric was very helpful in helping me select the products that worked best in each room and there was never any sales pressure. I am very pleased with the quality of the blinds for the price I paid. I highly recommend Budget Blinds, a great experience!

I’m very disappointed. Expensive, many mechanical failures and they only partially stand behind thier product once installed. I bought $ 10,000 of blinds… this only covered 6 windows!(I guess the name Budget is a joke?).One blind covered nearly half the window when open fully… so he charged me $ 75 to come revise the botched install… and he left huge holes in the drywall for me to fix! The blind in our master does the same, but I’m afraid to mention it. His plastic cord keeper broke with only mild use… and he charged me $ 40 extra for that! One of our vertical blinds broke an internal string… he did come out to fix it once, I’ll cross my fingers for it’s
wife and I were so shocked I called Eric personally. He was so mean to me, I said I would go to Unilocal to tell others. He accused me of Blackmail! LOL! Unilocal is a tool for one customer to educate others, way more accurate and useful than advertisements.

In September of 2010 my wife and I completed a remodel of our home in Felton which also included all new window coverings. We looked at some different companies but we were also looking for a local company that knew what their products were. After speaking to a few different outfits we decided on having Budget Blinds of Santa Cruz/​Scotts Valley do the work. The owner, Eric and his wife Judy were very knowledgeable and very fun to work with. Eric knew what would be the best shades for each window and he had plenty of different styles to show us. We also had remote controlled shades installed in our skylights. Eric made sure that everything worked right. We knew we had found the right guy because we ran into a glitch with the remote controlled skylight shades not operating correctly. It turned out to be a Hunter Douglas defect and Eric got on the phone and spoke with Hunter Douglas as well as his Budget Blinds corporate people. It took a little while for Hunter Douglas to replace these shades because they realized that their 3^rd party manufacture of a electronic component was not working out. They promised that when they redid this electronic problem that we would receive all new skylight shades. They said it would probably be about 4 months. Eric told us to keep the existing shades and when the new shades arrived that he would come back out to reinstall them. Eric kept his word and in May of this year we had our new shades up and running. Installing these shades was not all that easy because the skylights are up about 15 feet and Eric worked pretty hard. We have been extremely satisfied with the results and especially with Eric and Judy’s knowledge and expertise. I highly recommend Budget Blinds of Santa Cruz for anyone looking at buying new window coverings for their home. Also they are local and fair on their pricing as well as making sure that you are completely satisfied. Thanks for the great work.
Stew Hill

We ordered cellular blinds for our home and received an awesome warranty with the blinds we ordered. 5 years, that’s incredible! Eric came out to our home & gave us an estimate at no charge, and we live quite a ways out. We felt with the quality, installation and great customer service, that we received a good price. Definitely recommend checking Budget Blinds out if you’re doing any comparisons.

Don’t let the name fool you… while the prices are definitely competitive, the service, quality and care you get from Eric Osmun and his wife, Judy, at Budget Blinds of Santa Cruz is top of the line! We selected window treatments for almost every window in our home– from stylish, yet functional, black-​out shades to gorgeous curtains. We were so happy with all the choices we were given, as well as the helpful advice. Three years later our window treatments still look great and we’re treated like friends whenever we’ve contacted Eric and Judy (like when the hamster chewed the blinds!). I highly recommend Budget Blinds!