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<\/a>One box of black-out blinds for $20, check.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
<\/a>The top of the blinds got hung as per the instructions…<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>… while a portion we cut off the bottom got fastened to the wall using a ‘curtain-spring’.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The high tech roll-up mechanism for the bottom part of the blinds.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>And after all that, a nice meal was deserved.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Written 14 September 2013. \u00a0Still more than a month behind. \u00a0Grumble.]<\/p>\n
Gu\u00f0r\u00fan 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.<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0It was also pretty impressive in retrospect because I (the one supposedly directing this design project) was basically brainless due to lack of sleep, and Gu\u00f0r\u00fan was under a serious cold attack, and should have been in bed with a hot cup of tea with lots of honey.<\/p>\n
But somehow we pushed through, and then got a little bit of help from the men to actually install the curtains. (5 images total)<\/p>\n