How to make wooden blinds .

 Are you thinking of replacing your window treatments? Or do you have windows that do not have covers or are covered with cheap mini blinds that you want to upgrade in order to get them a nice country look? But you might be of the opinion that wooden blinds are just too expensive to afford.

Hence if you are short on money but still don’t want to compromise with the usability and look of your window treatment, making your own wooden blinds can be the best solution. If you have basic woodworking skills, you can easily make the perfect looking blinds for your house window.

Once you complete making it, the wooden blinds will give you a wonderful sense of enjoyment and accomplishment. That you may not get by spending a lot of money in buying wooden window blinds from a store.

Below mentioned are the steps you need to follow in making a wooden window blind.

1. First of all, you need to measure the width and length of the window you want to make the blinds for. But you need to measure it from inside the window frame. And after that cut the conduit an inch shorter than your measurement. Then set aside the number of slats you require to cover your window.

2. Keep the slats side by side to line up the long edges. Although The heights of the slats can be a bit different the width of the slats on its long edge should be roughly the same.

3. Drill hole in each slat that should be big enough to hold the string twice.

4. Now you need to cut the string that is a little more than twice the length of the window, that you are planning to put the blind in.

5. Now you need to thread a string on each side of the blind through the first slat. Loop it through the slat and thread it from the hole again. Then take the string through the next slat and loop it around through the same hole. Continue the same procedure on each side of the blind.

6. Once you reach the last stat, tie the string in a double knot, and cut it off. Remember not to tie the knot too close to the end slat as you will have to hang the blind through these looped knots.

7. Then you will have to measure and mark two points inside of the window frame, that resembles the hanging loops at the blind top. Then screw two cup hooks into the window frame.

8. At the very last step, all you need to do is just turning the wooden blind around so that only a bit of the string entering the holes on each side of the slats come to your view, rather than the entire string running across them after that just hang it in your window and you are ready to go.

 

 

Things you will require

Just visit the local grocery store and ask them if they have wooden crates that they want to be recycled. You can further paint or stain the slats to acquire your desired look. But if you want to do so you must get it done before threading the string into it.

The bottom line

After going through the above-detailed step-wise description on how to make the wood blinds, you can make and design your own window blinds without investing huge amount of money in a window treatment store. With a bit of hard work and applying a few creative ideas, you can easily get your dream window treatment, even if you are running short of money.