Monday, October 26, 2009

Hate your mini blinds?


I was inspired by several bloggers to turn my little girls ugly $3 mini blinds in to Roman Shades. It was either that or invest in the wood blinds (feaux) which would add up to about $50. Umm, this fabric sitting in my storage bench? Free! Free wins in this house. I did have to go buy some fabric glue. This one, Fabritac, cost $4.97.
For a real tutorial click here at Little Green Notebook and check out her blog too! But here you get the idea.


I took off the bottom piece of the blinds, cut the tilt strings (not the lift string!) and took off all but 6 slats. I spaced the remaining slats apart about 9 inches.


I used this glue to glue in the hem of all 4 sides of my piece of fabric, then proceed to glue the fabric to both the top and bottom piece of the blinds, and to all 6 slats.



I trimmed the top with some coordinating ribbon but it doesn't stand out too well. I would love to add black out fabric to the back. I think that would make them look higher quality and keep out more light.

Overall, I am happy with them! They are much cuter than the plastic mini blinds and this project took me about 2 1/2 hours. (I'm not good at measuring). For more pictures of Payton's big girl room click here!

I am submitting this on Kimbas DIY day, thanks for looking and go check it out!



Photobucket

5 comments:

  1. Love that idea of using old blinds to make roman shades! And the free fabric is very cute...great job!

    Tamera@doubledelight

    ReplyDelete
  2. I have seen this done before, and everytime I think 'why didn't it think of that?'. My old blinds have all gone now but I am sure there will be more blinds in my future and then I will use this trick.
    Love the funky green color!

    ReplyDelete
  3. this looks fantastic! now i wish i had mini blinds that i could convert to something cute!

    ReplyDelete
  4. They looks great! Very pretty and cheerful fabric. I've seen this posted on a couple blogs and I have a window I keep meaning to do this to.

    ReplyDelete