Blinds from wallpaper by own hands

In winter, we strive to fill the apartment with light and heat, then with the onset of the heat you want absolutely the opposite effect - to hide from the scorching rays of the hot summer sun. At this time, actual appliances are air conditioners, various Roman curtains , foil or blinds. Economical and enterprising people are trying to create protective devices from improvised material. In the course is cardboard, plastic waste, cloth flaps. Of course, do not forget about the wallpaper, the remains of which can be found literally in every apartment. In just an hour and a half you will receive. If you show your imagination and take advantage of our simple advice, you will get good horizontal paper blinds created by yourself.

Blinds with their own hands - master class

1. As a material suitable thick wallpaper. It is desirable to find those that are used for painting. They are thin enough, but they do not let in the light.
2. Tools here will need simple - scissors, sharp office clerk, ruler or tape measure, a strong cord or a clothesline, a punch, an awl.
3. How to make blinds from wallpaper? All such works usually begin with measurements of the width and height of our window. It should be borne in mind that further we will create an accordion from paper, which will "steal" the paper a little. Therefore, it is necessary to cut off the wallpaper in height with a margin. It all depends on how you fold the paper. In the event that we are folding the material with a width of 3-4 cm, then at a window height of 1 m 20 cm, a piece of wallpaper with a length of 1 m 50 cm is needed.
4. For convenience, it is worthwhile to make unpretentious markings, noting places of bending and future punctures.
5. We bend the wallpaper to make a beautiful and pretty accordion.
6. We put our workpiece in one straight stripe.
7. We need this in order to pierce all the layers of the accordion with an awl with one hand movement or make a hole with a punch.
8. The hole is carefully expanded.
9. Through it we pass the linen cord or a beautiful ribbon, through which the mistress will open the blinds from the wallpaper, created with her own hands.
10. Straighten the accordion.
11. In the upper part we tie the cord and fix it with adhesive tape.
12. At the bottom of the product, cut off the extra cord, but leaving a little of its length with a margin for subsequent manipulations.
13. From below we will fold the blinds so that a beautiful and magnificent peacock tail is formed. Make it simple. Approximately the five most recent creases we glue together and fix two-sided adhesive tape.
14. On the cord set the lock.
15. We shorten the ribbon or twine to the desired length, the very end of it can be decorated with a bead.
16. Blinds for the windows, which we made with our own hands, are fixed by means of double-sided scotch tape.
17. In the interior of such beautiful things look very attractive and original, no worse than something bought for a lot of money in building supermarkets.

There are several varieties of such products. It is possible to install them not with one cord, but with several parallel routing cords. Then the product will be more like a factory product. Only the fixator you have to find already on two holes. All other actions are made absolutely similar.