One Room Challenge {Week Five} – How to Install New Blinds

Welcome to Week 5 of the One Room Challenge! If you’re non certain what I’m talking about, yous may desire to popular over to my Week 1 post, where I lay out all my plans for the space. The curt version is that I am participating inwards a half-dozen calendar week challenge, hosted yesteryear Calling It Home, where I am renovating a room inwards my domicile from locomote yesteryear to bottom! I chose to function on our mutual frigidness together with outdated invitee sleeping room to reach it a fresh novel look. I’m SO glad I did! This calendar week nosotros got our novel wall mural upward (hooray!) together with our novel blinds position upward – I’ll demo yous how tardily it was! The room is lastly starting to receive got shape! 

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I demo yous how to install your ain blinds inwards 3 quick together with tardily steps, but starting fourth dimension I’ll reach a quick recap of our sleeping room progress!

The vogue I chose for the room is modern industrial. In my design plans, I highlighted a gorgeous fake brick wall to assistance convey life together with texture to the room. I LOVED the thought of a brick wall amongst my  industrial design.

Walls Need Love has an amazing alternative of wallpapers together with murals amongst gorgeous designs together with patterns. As shortly every bit I saw their White-Washed Brick Mural, I knew I wanted to purpose it!

We position it upward over a couplet of days, together with I love the agency it transformed the room. It actually gave the infinite a whole novel feel. I’m fifty-fifty more excited to decorate the room now and play off of the aspect together with experience of our fake brick wall. There is a flake to a greater extent than bluish inwards the wall mural than I expected, thus I’ll receive got to mix upward my decor ideas a flake to a greater extent than to necktie inwards the bluish tones inwards the mural together with the dark-brown tones inwards the pigment colour. Should live a fun challenge!

Last week, I talked nigh getting the cut back all finished. Well friends… it is lastly up! Doors, windows together with ledges are all finished! The novel smoothen lines together with brilliant white color are perfect.

You tin sack run into that our basement sleeping room had a pony wall along the ii of the walls. I decided to position the brick upward on the locomote yesteryear part of these walls. Both are exterior walls together with I thought it would reach the illusion of a brick wall on an older house. LOVE how it turned out!

Onto the blinds! The starting fourth dimension time I ever did a business similar this, I position it off for ages. I had no thought how tardily it was – together with yous tin sack relieve some groovy coin yesteryear doing the install yourself! Here are your 3 tardily install steps:

Step One

Do a dry out represent together with determine where yous desire yous blinds to sit. You desire everything to live inwards place, but non attached amongst screws. If yous produce the dry out represent without the blinds inwards place, yous volition non receive got a skillful thought of how far frontward the blinds volition come. We wanted our valence to sit down only inwards front end of the trim. When yous receive got it where yous desire it, grade a delineate on both sides at the dorsum of the box.

Step Two

Next, agree your halt brackets inwards place, lining them upward amongst the delineate yous only drew. Using a pencil, grade the holes that yous volition live screwing into. Use a grade to brand certain that your bracket is sitting horizontally.

Step Three

Drill holes into the spots that yous only marked. Then screw the brackets inwards place. If yous are drilling into wood, drill the hole slightly smaller than the screw you’ll live using. If yous aren’t going into woods cut back or woods framing, purpose wall anchors or other hardware together with follow the directions supplied.

That’s it! Now yous only slide your blinds into the bracket, slide your valence on top, together with admire your novel blinds!

I select these beautiful faux woods blinds from Sheer Illusions because they are affordable together with reach off a to a greater extent than high-end look.

I can’t believe how far this room has come upward inwards exclusively 5 curt weeks!

This calendar week I likewise tried my paw at a couplet of DIY projects. I’ll live sharing tutorials on these inwards the weeks to come, but I thought I’d reach yous a sneak peek at a couplet of my DIY decor pieces…

DIY Decorative Black Orb

DIY 3-Wick Concrete Candle

This is the FINAL calendar week of the challenge together with nosotros receive got a LOT to do! I’m non certain how much nosotros volition instruct done, but wishing us luck!

Don’t forget to honour to a greater extent than great Industrial Ideas by next my Pinterest Board.

Here’s how nosotros are doing on our lengthy Industrial Guest Bedroom To-Do List:

• Clear room


• Paint walls


• Paint ceiling, trim, together with doors


• Install novel flooring


• Install novel trim


• Install pendant light


• Buy a novel rug


• Buy novel bedding


• Put upward fake brick wall


• Buy novel pendant light


• DIY novel bedside lights


• DIY side tabular array refresh (done!)


• Install novel blinds


• Make DIY Valence


• DIY headboard


• Build DIY sideboard


• Build DIY Towel Rack


• Find/thrift room accessories


• DIY or purchase novel artwork