With Valentines Day on a Monday, I didn't really get much of anything done. The one thing I did was to shorten the blinds in Matt's son's room.
I had no idea that you could even do that until I was digging through the projects tab on Young House Love. However I didn't see a tutorial, and it has been over a year since we installed the blinds. So with no instructions for shortening them on hand I just dove in and gave it a shot.
Tools needed:
(Yes really, this is all I used. I could have used a screwdriver but I didn't want to walk to the basement.)
I didn't need to take a lot off the bottom as you can see here. They mentioned small clips at the bottom of the blinds, these are what I found. I used the nail file attachment on my nail trimmers to pry the little button thing out of the hole. There is a string that goes through the button, that is what moved the blinds up and down, and the thinner grid of strings that rotates the blinds to let more or less light in.
Once you have all the little button things out and the riser string out of the center of the unnecessary slats just slid them out to the side. You will need to take the large bottom slat and move it up to it's new rung.
Once all the riser cords are tied and even you can trim the excess with the nail trimmers. Tuck the strings back inside the hole and pop the button back in.
What do you think? Better, worse, almost the same?
