Friday, June 14, 2013

New Cordless Roman Shades in the Breezeway

We have not touched the breezeway since we moved in over 3 years ago.  The shades that came with the house worked (kinda) so we just left it.  Well, one ended up breaking awhile back and they really were crappy and very dated.  Window treatments aren't cheap, but I had $200 in gift cards to Bed, Bath & Beyond.  So I've been looking at new ones for awhile and I finally bit the bullet and went for it.  It could be better, but a lot of painting is required and the paneling would have to go.  So for now, this is all the updating I am doing for now.
All the tools you should need: tape measure, small level, pencil, phillips screwdriver and drill

New Shades: Insola Chatham Cordless Roman Shade in White
The god-awful shades from the 70's, plastic pieces woven with yarn, in brown and orange

I had 5 windows to change but it was super easy!

Once I had the marks where I wanted the brackets, I drilled a starter hole
then screwed in the top screw.  Once I got it mostly snug, I set the level
and tightened it up.  Then put in the bottom screw :-)



The shade just slides in on the hooks while the 'arm' is in this position

Then you slide the 'arm' to the left and it locks it in



Sooooo much better!

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