The last time I pulled down the cheap vinyl roller blinds in my bedroom, they smelled so bad I had to leave the room. It is hard to tell what sort of toxic fumes they were emitting. I had a thought about ordering some custom shades but that thought disappeared when I saw the price.
Let’s see if this could be a successful DIY. I had a piece of fabric that was large enough but I didn’t like how bold the pattern was. Solution, use the back side. I took the existing shade and threw away the vinyl but kept the rod. There was a lot of measuring and ironing. I used stitch witchery to bind the edges.
I also changed the shades from inside mount to outside mount. Because I had wooden valances that I didn’t want to take down, it required a lot of tools to finally attach the hardware.
Tada! With the sun coming through you still see the pattern but it is very muted.
I need to check from the outside tomorrow and see what it looks like from that direction. I am not quite finished. I need to get some doubled sided tape to attach the fabric to the pole. I just used scotch tape to test it out. And I need to get something to use as the bottom bar. So far, I have just used stuff I already had. The same thing on Blinds.com for the three I just made, would have been over $1000. I am counting this as a DIY success.
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