How to make blinds with your own hands

Жалюзи – функциональное решение, которое подойдёт for almost every window. With their help it is easy to ventilate the room, to dim the sunlight. They are not heavy, they will not occupy much space, which is very convenient for small rooms.

Blinds are horizontal, vertical orroll. For offices wear-resistant products with plastic lamellas are used, designed for a large number of openings and closures. Blinds of fabrics are best purchased for a country house or apartment. Wooden products look great in saunas and baths.

Despite the apparent complexity of the design,making them with your own hands is not difficult. How to make blinds with your own hands, what advice do specialists give, what tools to use for work? This will be discussed in our article.

Types of blinds

From paper

For them we will need: ruler, wallpaper, awlo, weighting agent, scotch tape.

• We measure the window. Cut a piece of wallpaper width and length is more by 40 cm than the dimensions of the window itself. If necessary, 2 strips can be glued together with adhesive tape.
• We measure out 7 cm and wrap the accordion. Apply
• Hole accordion from 2 sides
• Thread the thread and attach it to the mounting tape
• Bend the bottom with a fan
• We put weighting. We decorate the wallpaper to your taste.

Fabric

• We measure the area of ​​the window and take the material 2 times more
• Fold it in half and sew, turn out, sew the outer seam
• We wrap the material with a block and fix it with a furniture stapler.
• At the bottom of the product we make a seam for weighting
• We attach the tape to the top bar
• Install it on the window.

Out of thread

• We make blanks of the required length. Top and bottom fasten to scotch tape
• We put hooks for fastening
• In the upper lath pierce holes, through which then we extend the cord
• We hang the blanks from the yarns
• The bar is fixed to the free section of the cord.

From bamboo

• Top and bottom of blanks are fastened to glue or scotch tape
• We put hooks for fastening
• In the plate, we drill holes and draw the cord
• We hang lamellas
• To the free section of the cord we attach the bar

What you need for the manufacture of blinds

In the master class, we will talk in more detail about the process of making paper blinds and about the tools that we will need.

• Wallpaper, paper.
• The meter ruler.
• Scissors.
• Pencil.
• Stationery knife.
• Awl.
• Rope.
• Lighter.
• Scotch tape (double-sided scotch tape).

Instructions and tips on how to make blinds with your own hands

Wallpaper is selected for the color of the interior of the room. If you want, you can take a white wallpaper for painting and choose the right shade or apply an interesting print, ornament, decorate with contrasting ribbons.

For a large window, it is better to buy a meter roll of wallpaper or glue two strips. An interesting design of the window: these are two strips of wallpaper hung at different heights.

It is not necessary to immediately draw the entire roll, it is recommended to try to bend six or seven strips to see what happens as a result.

Vinyl wallpaper in the process of work can be straightened. To avoid this, you can hold the fold carefully without pressing a stationery knife.

To facilitate rope passing, the diameter of the lace and the awl should be approximately equal.

Full process description

• We measure the height of the window.
• We mark out a roll of wallpaper, adding a plus of 30 centimeters so that the wallpaper easily and beautifully pleated.
• We make strips. Straighten, retreating 3 cm from the edge.
• Gently bend the edge. Passing from above with a pencil.
• We bend the planned strips with an accordion.
• Fix it with a pencil.
• Cut the piece to the end of the cut.
• We fold the accordion and plan the center.
• Shilom presses a hole in the center of the workpiece.
• We singed the edge of the rope so that it would not break up during operation.
• Thread the cord into the hole.
• Combine the left and right bottom edge, fold, making a frill.
• Seam sticking adhesive or adhesive tape
• Fastened to the window with scotch tape. And you can hang on the eaves.
• You can adjust the curtain with a lace.

What types of blinds are most popular

Rolling

They are attached to the sash.Design: the cloth winding up on a shaft. This is a single canvas. Material: non-woven fabric, fabric. Pros: well protect the room from light; stylish solution; easy to install.

Horizontal

Used both at home and in office cabinets. Material: plastic, wood, metal, bamboo. Pros: beautifully decorated window; ease of use; easy to care for.

Vertical

This type of blinds loses its popularity becausewhich is too standard and dull. If you decide to purchase this type of blinds, then the best option would be blinds with drawing the image. Pros: ease of use.

Pleated blinds

This type of blinds is only gaining popularity.Usually used to decorate non-standard windows (arches, round shape). Pros: this material does not stretch, it does not warp during operation; stylish appearance.

Draw conclusions

Making blinds with your own hands is not at all difficult.enough half an hour to decorate the window. Choosing the option of paper blinds, it is worth remembering that they are quite fragile and lift and lower them slowly and smoothly, so as not to damage. Wash such curtains, of course, impossible. But they can be replaced with new ones when they are polluted, without making holes in the family budget.