These shades look great don’t they? I love them. I use them in my kitchen and my bedroom to block out the heat from the sun. But guess what. They are completely see through. Guess what else. My kitchen AND BEDROOM face a main neighborhood road, and we don’t have a privacy fence. What’s that you say? That you knew these blinds were see through? That I should have known that since I can see right through them to my yard during the day that I should expect the opposite to happen at night? Well good for you for being so smart. And I bet you only use them in non-private areas (like not your bedroom) too.
Well, smarty pants, I decided to devise a way to keep using my blinds, since I like them so much, without giving everyone who drives by a show. For about 5 dollars I was able to buy enough muslin to cover the backs of all five of my shades making them completely private, but not much heavier.
In case you are also as dense as me and are now panicking over your shades, I’ll tell you what I did:
1. I removed the knot where the strings attach to the shade but was careful to study how the knot was tied so I could do it back later. I unthreaded the strings but didn’t pull them all the way out of the pulleys and everything.
2. Working in about 4 inch strips I used A LOT of hot glue directly on the shade and then pressed the muslin to the shade with a tool…not my hand…cuz it’s hot.
3. I made sure to measure and cut holes for the loops to go through BEFORE I hot glued over them.
4. Then I rethreaded the strings and, rehung my shades, and ran around in my underwear for the rest of the night….which I guess isn’t different than any other night of the week, only this time all those people weren’t hanging around the backyard.
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That is awesome.