Black-Out Blinds
[Written 14 September 2013. Still more than a month behind. Grumble.]
Guðrún kindly brought her sewing machine to the summer house, and together we managed to turn one roll of black-out blinds into two blinds for the little guest-house where they were sleeping.
This project had been percolating in my brain for a few weeks (I’m such a sunlight-wuzz, and the guesthouse has always been curtain-less) so the fact we got it done was a huge relief. It was also pretty impressive in retrospect because I (the one supposedly directing this design project) was basically brainless due to lack of sleep, and Guðrún was under a serious cold attack, and should have been in bed with a hot cup of tea with lots of honey.
But somehow we pushed through, and then got a little bit of help from the men to actually install the curtains. (5 images total)
One box of black-out blinds for $20, check.
The top of the blinds got hung as per the instructions…
… while a portion we cut off the bottom got fastened to the wall using a ‘curtain-spring’.
The high tech roll-up mechanism for the bottom part of the blinds.
And after all that, a nice meal was deserved.
