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Making Roman Blinds

  • 02-12-2010 10:11am
    #1
    swirley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Hi,
    Just wondering if anyone has tried to make their own Roman blinds? I have a new window in my kitchen and I need a blind for it. Hickeys quoted me €260 euro for a roman blind....rip off! Surely it wouldn't cost that much to make one!! I was looking at utube videos and it doesn't look that hard. Anyone tried it? Any tips would be great!!


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  • #2
    looksee
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    I made a kitchen window blind for exactly the same reasons as you, but it was a long time ago.

    I used heavy cotton, you fold the blind to make channels to the back. I got some narrow, thin laths and pre-drilled them for the cords - a hole at about the quarter and three-quarter points on the laths.

    Make and finish the bottom edge of the blind (I did scallops) then make channels at about 30cm intervals up the blind, with one at the very top.

    You have to thread cord (get proper window cord, you need about five times the depth of the window, don't cut it, work from the two ends) through the fabric and the lath and I can't remember whether I used eyelets in the fabric, or just pushed through it. Eyelets would be tidy but they would be a bit bulky when you have a whole lot of them pulled together. They would also be very difficult to do accurately.

    Screw a couple of small screw eyes (for net curtain cords) into the back, bottom edge of the top lath, then:

    thread the two cord ends through one of the screw eyes. Take one cord down the blind through the holes in the laths and fabric on the back of the blind. Take the other cord across to the second screw eye and down the blind as before.

    Fix the top lath to the window. At one side put in another screw eye - into the window frame - and thread the folded cord through it to open and close the blind.

    The short answer (:D) is yes, if you can work neatly and figure it out as you go, they are not difficult.


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