and in this episode I'm hanging some blinds and welcome back to moore approved
I'm James and we'd be installing some two-inch faux wood blinds the process
itself is very simple and easy and it makes dramatic difference in any room so
if you've always wondered how to install blinds or you're thinking that I really
need to install some blinds in my house but I don't want to go through the
entire process to do so it just looks so complicated and stressing that's not the
case it's actually very very simple to do and very easy you just need a couple
of basic tools a cordless drill is preferred you're also going to want a
pen or a pencil obviously you're going to need a tape measure and you're going
to need a set of blinds before you go out and buy your blinds just take a tape
measure measure the inside of your window from this point to this point and
then top to bottom after you've done that you can go to the store and make
your selection the measurement for my window is 33 and 3/4 inches wide and 58
inches tall so I went to my local Home Center and I picked up a set of faux
wood blinds these are 34 inches wide by 64 inches long and the actual width of
these blinds out of the box is 33 and a half inches wide so that's going be a
perfect fit on the inside of my window now you're going to want at least an
eighth inch gap on either side of your blinds when it's hung in the window
otherwise they may bind up and not open and close properly in most cases your
windows are going to be standard sized so when you see the 34 by 64 that's
going to roughly be the size whatever window you have you just want to double
check and make sure now if you do have an oddball size window you can go to
your local Home Center with the exact measurement and one of the people there
will be able to custom cut the blinds to size for you which isn't a big deal
and you can get on with your installation so let's open this box up
and get these mounted so once you have your blinds out of the box go ahead and
locate your mounting hardware your little brackets here and then just slide
those onto either end and you're going to use this as a guide to determine
where you're going to be mounting so after you have it up in the window go
ahead and take yourself a pen or pencil and then just make a line of where that
bracket is going to be sitting
and I want my brackets to be right on the edge of the window and I'm just
making a line down on the bottom of where it's going to mount to so I'll go
ahead and pull the blinds I'm going to go now I'm going to take my first
bracket and a little piece of tape match this up to the lines and then secure it
into place when your bracket has loosely held into position now this gives you
two hands to put in the screws take your first screw line it up
after you get the first one in place you can remove your tape and put in some more
screws one down one to go
now that our brackets are in place we can go ahead and hang the blinds just take
your blinds set them into place and then close your snaps you're all done now
from the valance all you have to do is take these little brackets slide the
blind out just slightly clip them into place on the opposite sides push the
blind back into place secure the clips on the front and on the back of this
valance there's a little trough and you just have to pinch the outside of those
brackets and it'll stay in place I like to set the top in place first and then use
my thumbs to press the bottom of the brackets into that lower trough for the
final step all you have to do is hang this and that's it it's all installed it's
quick simple and easy I figured I'd share that with you guys since I was
doing it anyways so if you guys have never hung blinds
before you can see how easy and quick it was to actually accomplish it if you guys
have any questions please feel free to leave them below give me a thumbs up if
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I'm James until next time see you then