Several of the blinds in my house have needed replaced since I moved in 4 years ago. Most of the issues were pretty minor, with small pieces of blinds missing. I did have one that completely broke a while back. It was in a guest bedroom, and there are also curtains in the room, so I just took it down and never replaced it. Recently the blind in bathroom has seemed determined to force the issue. It has been losing pieces with increasing frequency. Replacing all missing and broken blinds was placed on my goal list for 2023.
I started by measuring all the windows. They are all the same size, so that made shopping easy. I started doing some online research, and fairly quickly I discovered this is a standard window size, so blinds were readily and cheaply available. I placed an order, and they were shipped to my house at no charge.
Once the blinds arrived, it was time for installation. I was thrilled to find that 2 of the blinds that needed replaced used the exact same hardware as the replacements. I simply removed the old ones and put in the new ones. The others required removing the old mounting brackets (very easy) and installing the new. The first one took me a few minutes to figure out, and then the rest were identical so I was able to do them with little fuss. The end result: I am thrilled. The blinds look great. This project was an example of the dreading being worse than the doing. Had I known how little time, effort, and money it would take, I would have tackled this project long ago. Below are before and after pictures of the bathroom blind that forced this project. I think you'll agree it was past time to replace it blind, and the end result was a definite improvement.
