Exterior Window Shades Diy

Paper blinds are no more.

Exterior window shades diy. Install your own professionally looking exterior skylight shades in minutes and protect your house from the sun with heat blocking exterior skylight blinds. By hand or machine sew either end of the coolaroo shade cloth. Louvered shutters that have a long piano hinge at the top and tilt upward. Side arms are then set in place to hold the shades at an approximate 30 degree angle.

When the shade is up the louvers are horizontal permitting people in the house to look outside. Allow an extra 20mm 8 in length. Create a faux window scene by covering the top half of the shade with fabric. Fabric and a roller shade kit add up to a budget custom window treatment.

Replace pull down paper shades with this diy custom roller shade idea. Cut the coolaroo shade cloth to size. Unscrew two screws to remove the shade from the window use a screwdriver to pop out a few staples to free the old fabric and spend 15 more minutes cutting hemming a new piece of fabric to staple up in its place. Bahama alternately bermuda shades they are.

Then paint an outdoor scene on the bottom half overlaying it with painted panes to create the impression of looking through the window. The hem should be at least 4cm 1 5 8 deep. All you need is a roller shade kit fabric cut to size and iron on adhesive to finish the edges. Coolaroo shade cloth fabric is made to a standard 1 83m 6 width.