How To: Turn Mini-Blinds into Roman Shades.

Face it: No one ACTUALLY likes the look of mini-blinds, but many of us simply continue to let them hang cause they're there, and they do their job, and it's easier than starting over. So, check out this tutorial: Jenny from Little Green Notebook offers a how-to for turning your mini-blinds, already sized and hardware hung, to create custom Roman shades.

Simply determine how many folds you'd like, cut out all but that many of the slats, glue on y » READ MORE

July 25, 2009

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Blinds with Built in Solar Lights

These vertical blinds by Yoon-Hui Kim & Eun-Kyung Kim hold a little secret, a solar lamp. Here's how it works: the blinds, which are closed during the day, are outfitted with tiny solar pads mounted on the blinds' vertical slats. As the sun goes down, the pads lighten, revealing a luminescent floor or table lamp or even a chandelier. Why not just use some phosphorescent material? I'm guessing it might not cast as much light as the solar option, » READ MORE

November 13, 2008

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1 Window Shade 3 Ways

My Home Ideas shows us 3 clever ways to take a plain window shade from ho-hum to heavenly. This shade was covered in fabric,

these were painted,

and these were covered in wallpaper.

For the entire tutorial for each project, visit myhomeideas.com. And for inexpensive roller blinds, you might want to check out Ikea's selection.

September 19, 2008

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Step one - the kitchen blind

A super simple how to this one. Making a roller blind with an excellent cheat involving the purchase of a blind kit from John Lewis. The aim here isn't to achieve mechanical perfection from raw materials - it's to let us pick a fabric we love, rather than one we kinda like.

Step one - the fabric

Sticking and stitching and hanging next... when i find the pics which I thought were already out of the camera! oops.

January 13, 2007

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DIY Computer Punchcard Window Blinds

Maybe your old computer is so slow that you have to pay the dump to haul it away.  But if your old computer is so old that it runs on punchcards, how about turning those punchcards into blinds?  

November 16, 2006

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