I'm here today outside of my mom's house because she has these beautiful skinny little
windows, which a lot of people in this area have. I have them too.
And unfortunately as great as they are for letting nice light into your house they
also allow people to see directly into your house, which is a bad idea on so many levels.
Finding blinds this narrow was not easy.
What we did was order 10 inch wide blinds off of Home Depot online, and when
they came in, we took them back into the store to have an inch cut off of either
side, which they will do in the store as long as you purchased them from Home
Depot online. And I'm sure other home improvement stores that sell blinds
would do the same thing. They were hesitant, though, to trim them because
they were afraid if they trimmed off so much on either side, that it would
interfere with the mechanisms at the top, and render the blinds inoperable, but
that did not turn out to be the case.
Now the first thing I did was made sure that
I had all the appropriate hardware, because you don't want to get started on
a project and find you don't have all the right stuff.
I knew that I was dealing with a very narrow wall on those windows, so I had to
make sure I had enough small screws to use. And in fact I had to go out to the
garage and get some additional small screws to work with. Mark the holes where
you need them to be. Pre-drill some holes,
And then get your screws in...and drop one
CRAP!
Tighten them up with a drill. And then just repeat the process on the other side.
Just pop that baby in there, push those clips down, and they're up!
Unravel the cord and untie it.
If you find that your blinds are a little too long and you
need to take a couple of these levels out, it's really easy.
You'll see that there's two little caps here at the end. You just need to carefully lift those.
Now I'm gonna pull these out. There it is. Okay untie the knot nope alright pull
this out. Let's slide this out carefully. And then you can pull out as many of
these little rungs as you need to. You're gonna slide this bottom piece back in.
These two lines on each side? You're gonna want to take those and stick them
through these holes again. I'm gonna put this through through the cap and tie the
knot there cuz that will make it a lot easier for me to deal with again if I
ever feel like I need to get into this again. You're gonna want to take these
extra little pieces here and tuck them into the hole. Pop this cap back on there
and there you go! Pop in the little caps on the sides, which will help to hold the
blinds down, using the clips. You're going to want to place those clips where they
need to go, and mark the hole. You always want to double check. They say:
"Measure twice, cut once" and that is absolutely true.
Once you're sure you've got it in the right spot, mark the hole. Pre-drill some holes. Be very careful to not drill
all the way through the wall if you're working in the situation like I was.
Add the screws, and then of course you repeat the process on the other side
Place it into the clips.
We ran into a little bit of an issue with the decorative cover that goes over
the top of the blinds. The side pieces were a little too long because of the
way the blinds were recessed into the window, so we did have to take those back
and get those trimmed. Alright, then you want to attach the rod so you can open
and close them. And there you go!
This was so easy that I came home immediately,
ordered my own, and installed them next to my front door.
And I took a time lapse video of it!
Those curtains hung on these windows for TEN YEARS and I hated every minute of it.
And I'm really kicking myself now for not taking time earlier to put those blinds up.
On another note, if anybody knows how to fix the seals on the
insides of these windows without actually dismantling the entire door
Please comment below! I would love to hear it.