Here is what the blinds looked like when I first put them up. They extended about 3 feet beyond the bottom of the window and the cord went all the way to the floor.
The first thing I did was measure the window and cut the blinds about 4 inches below the length I desired.
Next I pulled out all of the extra bamboo pieces. This leaves the nice long pieces of string that I used to attach the bottom piece.
Finally, I attached the original bottom piece to give the shades a little bit of weight and a nice clean look.
I finished the shades by cutting all of the excess strings and shortening the pull cord.
There will probably be a lot of home decorating projects on my blog over the next few weeks, but that doesn't mean I am not knitting. I am working on the avocado leg warmers during my down time. Here is a picture of my progress.
5 comments:
avocado -- yum! if it's not lime green, it's gotta be avocado green!
yeah, after reading your post saying lime is the new orange I was so glad I skipped the orange. I might be a little trendy for once, or at least my lower legs might.
That's funny. Yeah, I'm obsessed with lime green right now (though I'm sure that's obvious by what I choose to wear). Though orange will always have a place in my heart, I just never thought I'd choose another color over orange until I met lime green. Now I belong to lime green, though if it turns out to be un-trendy to like orange, I might go back to orange cause I'm like that.
Thank you so much for this post! I had no idea how to shorten my matchstick levolor natural woven wood shade before. I saw this linked from ehow, and the pictures really help clear up my questions. The only thing is I also have to worry about how the shade is more complicated than this, where it folds every 4 inches, so I think I may have less choices of length if I want it to look similar to the original look. Also I wonder if I can attach the bottom without wrapping the string around the bottom like that. This is a little more complicated than I thought when I bought them from Lowe's!
On those blinds I wrapped the string like that because that is how they were originally constructed. Another set I re-sized had little drilled holes that I used. Basically, you want to reattach the bottom the same way it was originally attached.
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