How To Cut Bamboo Blinds/Shades
2 Materials
$50
1 Hour
Easy
What do you do when you find bamboo blinds/shades on clearance but they are too big for your windows? You cut them of course! This simple tutorial will show you how!
Bamboo blinds can be cut with a miter saw and it's so simple!
Before picture: We had to have some shades in our living room because of the glare during the day. I love the open look of the windows but for functionality we needed some shades. I scored some bamboo shades on a huge clearance (85% off!) but they were too big. After letting them sit around in our house for months, I finally got them cut and hung.
Step 1: Measure how much you need to take off.
Step 5: Drill new holes in your wood so that you can hang your shades up.
Step 6: Hang your shades. We choose to cut the two outer shades on both sides. We also choose to cut both sides of the two outer shades. You can see above that the left shade is smaller (about 6 inches total) than the middle.
This picture shows the "cut" side of the bamboo. It's not noticeable at all!
This shows how the three sets of blinds sync up together.
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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Love this look! So much warmer than blinds.
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Looks great, love your room and how inviting it looks!
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Looks great to me and sometimes function is the most important thing. Could you use stain to touch up the cut ends to help them blend better? Just a thought!!
Could you use a brown/black magic marker or furniture scratch pen to touch up the ends? I like the look of this for my craft room... Definitely giving it a try. Now all I need to do is learn how to use power tools other than a drill.......
Your blinds look great, just wondered what you did with the cords for the middle blind