February 26th, 2010
I love this! I HATE the paper roll shades that we have in our living room and dining room, but don’t like to leave them unrolled at night because I like my privacy (especially with all of the foot traffic around our house due to it being right on the park). I also pretty much despise the mini blinds that are in the family room. Our window treatment budget is, oh, zero dollars, though. I am totally going to try making Roman Shades out of the mini blinds in the family room and if they work out for me, I’ll go find cheap mini blinds for the windows in the living/dining room and transform them into Roman Shades. Super exciting!
| Shades can often cost you an arm and a leg (especially custom fabric shades). |
| a way to repurpose the old {ugly} mini blinds |
Here are the basic instructions. If you need more details, feel free to comment or email. |
–Supplies–
Tape measure
Scissors
Fabritac (or comparable fabric glue – NOT HOT GLUE!)
Mini blinds (like the $3 Target mini blinds)
Fabric (yardage depends on the size of your window)
Trim (optional) |
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You are making me very proud. All of your crafty ideas. Keep up the good work.
GREAT IDEA. I messed up the first shade so here I go again……….duh
thank you for thhis idea. I need privacy so I think this will be fine.
do i cut off the extra slots at the bottom. my windows are small and the blind is way too long. If i put the fabric face down on the floor do i lay the blind down with th convex laying on the outside of the fabric and if so how do i glue the curve ide of the mini blind to the fabric. thanks, HELP