# Fear my amazing windowblind hanging sk1llz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103 "2009-05-20T19:27:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/1 "2009-05-20T19:27:52Z")
[Before](http://www.friedo.com/bbefore.jpg) [After](http://www.friedo.com/bafter.jpg) So, when do I get my own home improvement show? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/2 "2009-05-20T20:32:28Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > So, when do I get my own home improvement show? The tryouts for it are at my house, when I finally get around to getting some new blinds. Oh, and you have to hang curtains for the show, too, that’s mandatory. ETA: You should know we’ve got some new unobtrusive camera technology, so it will look like nobody’s filming you at all. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/3 "2009-05-20T21:14:41Z")
You’ll get a decorating show when you glue fabric to each slat so that it makes a nice pattern when they are closed, or stencil a pattern in gold paint. And not a minute before. (Nice work!) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/4 "2009-05-21T04:52:27Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > You’ll get a decorating show when you glue fabric to each slat so that it makes a nice pattern when they are closed, or stencil a pattern in gold paint. > > And not a minute before. I was thinking more Bob Vila than Martha Stewart. Perhaps I should replace them with a set of antique rosewood shutters from a demolished lighthouse just off the shore of Maine. I still have one more window to do, but it’ll have to wait for tomorrow as I am completely exhausted. That first one took _almost half an hour_. I had to put in nearly nine screws. What am I, a machine? ---
**Author:** ![Alastair\_Moonsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Alastair\_Moonsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alastair_Moonsong)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/5 "2009-05-21T05:16:04Z")
I was expecting a hilarious goofup or something; they look nice though, a big improvement! > [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > Oh, and you have to hang curtains for the show, too, that’s mandatory. Yeah, but do the drapes match the upholstery? ---
**Author:** ![MalHavoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@MalHavoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MalHavoc)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/6 "2009-05-22T00:49:37Z")
> [@Alastair\_Moonsong](#): > > I was expecting a hilarious goofup or something; they look nice though, a big improvement! > > Yeah, but do the drapes match the upholstery? That’s terrible… lol (btw…It’s supposed to be carpet, not upholstery, but I guess that wouldn’t work in the case of bare floors). ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/7 "2009-05-22T03:05:32Z")
Very nice. We need some new blinds for the kitchen windows. I tried to float the idea of vertical blinds (I’m sick of the horizontal ones, and _someone_ always eventually breaks off the twisty adjuster thingamabob), or short curtains. Or maybe just a color besides _green_. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/8 "2009-05-22T05:52:58Z")
I had a house full of vertical blinds; throwing them out was much more fun than installing the God Cursed things. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/9 "2009-05-22T12:50:54Z")
> [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](#): > > Very nice. We need some new blinds for the kitchen windows. I tried to float the idea of vertical blinds (I’m sick of the horizontal ones, and _someone_ always eventually breaks off the twisty adjuster thingamabob), or short curtains. Or maybe just a color besides _green_. What about Roman shades? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/10 "2009-05-22T14:04:22Z")
Boy, that brings back memories. Five or six years ago, my wife’s sister moved into a new house which had no window coverings, so one day my wife, her mother, and I bought a bunch of blinds and curtains, went over there while her sister was out, and did all the windows. Every single room. By the end of that day, I had done so many, I could hang a set of blinds in 3 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/11 "2009-05-22T18:22:45Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I was thinking more Bob Vila than Martha Stewart. Perhaps I should replace them with a set of antique rosewood shutters from a demolished lighthouse just off the shore of Maine. > > I still have one more window to do, but it’ll have to wait for tomorrow as I am completely exhausted. That first one took _almost half an hour_. I had to put in nearly nine screws. What am I, a machine? Hmm… seems like you have some leftover screws/brackets on the sill. Hope they don’t fall down on ya’. I only looked closely because I used to sell window treatments at my last job… (the place that went out of business and closed forever) and was looking to see what brand. LOL!😃 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/12 "2009-05-23T04:03:15Z")
> [@luv2draw](#): > > Hmm… seems like you have some leftover screws/brackets on the sill. Hope they don’t fall down on ya’. Guilty! That one came with two center brackets, which the instructions instructed me to place slightly to the side of center. So I did so, only to find that I had placed one of them directly in the way of one of the cloth straps, so the header could not be slid in. So I just took that one off, and am now riding high on the adrenaline rush I get from having only _one_ center bracket! Mwahahahah. The other window is done now too. It’s just a single-wide, though, so not nearly as exciting. And no center brackets on that one. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/13 "2009-05-26T14:38:33Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > So I just took that one off, and am now riding high on the adrenaline rush I get from having only _one_ center bracket! Mwahahahah. :eek: Buddy! You’re living on borrowed time. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-my-amazing-windowblind-hanging-sk1llz/497103/14 "2009-05-26T20:12:12Z")
If I did it there’d be 12 extra holes, a bunch of scratches in the frames, and a pint of blood on the floor next to a broken window. I hates hanging blinds…