had blind been fitted by the company, they would have used from a variation of readily to hand, window-mount brackets long enough to clear the window handle, rather than drop from above. There were none volunteered - fair enough - but no choice of these at purchase stage. Transpired inset was solid stone so being a DIY buff, fudged up to wooden brackets to fix to window, to which were in turn fixed the brackets provided - no prob to me, but perhaps would be to others.