DIY Life

While shades and blinds come in all lengths and widths, wooden Roman blinds tend to be 72 inches long, no matter how wide they are. When I cleaned the filthy blinds in our old apartment, I totally neglected the Roman blinds, only because I wasn't sure how to clean or shorten them.

I wish I had known then about DIY Maven's tutorial on how to hem wooden shades. I could have made my 6 foot wide kitchen window blinds look new again, using hot glue and Tacky Glue, and Maven's step by step instructions and follow along pictures to shorten them to a manageable length.

All you have to do is mark the shades at the length of your window, do a little cutting, gluing, and folding of the shades, rehang them, and stand far enough away from them to admire your hemming handiwork.

I actually like wood blinds and shades much more that vinyl blinds, and now I will buy them for each room in my home, now that I know how to make them shorter, and can do it in just a few minutes.