As with
all good home improvement work, it all starts with accurate
measurements. So often people have been disappointed when
that dream sofa they’ve bought doesn’t even fit
through the door or up the stairs to their flat. The home
décor roadside lies littered with curtains with the
wrong drop and carpet remnants that don’t quite cover
the floor area. How to fit blinds accurately rests firstly
on getting the right measurements. This involves firstly deciding
whether for example, the vertical blinds are going to rest
inside or on the outside of the recess.
Most windows in your
home are unlikely to be flush with the inner walls, but are
likely to be more in line with the outside wall, hence there
is a recess. Usually there is an inner recessed ledge covered
with a window board. In most homes this is used for vases
of flowers and ornaments, and often as a place to make a small
collection of items that don’t really belong anywhere
else.
Having your vertical
blinds inside the recess can still allow you to use the
space on the window board, whereas fitting the blinds outside
the recess will cover the whole window board and window recess
area completely.
Measuring for vertical
blinds that are inside the window recess i.e. an inside
mount vertical blind, involves making sure you have a pen
and paper to write record the measurements. You will also
need a good, preferably steel tape measure, and if the height
of the window recess is a challenge, you will need a step
ladder. Since most rooms, windows and walls aren’t strictly
level or uniform in shape, you’ll need to take 3 measurements
across the inside of the window recess to get the right width
for the blind – one across the top of the recess, one
across the middle, and one at the bottom of the recess. The
shortest of the 3 measurements should therefore be the one
to go with. Similarly, to get the right height for the vertical
blind, take 3 measurements – one from the top left to
the bottom left, one from the top middle to the bottom middle,
and one from the top right to the bottom right. Once again,
the shortest figure is the one to go with.
It’s important
to remember that blinds have mountings of some kind to attach
them to the wall, so if you want your inside mount vertical
blind to be flush with the wall, you’ll need to make
sure that there’s enough recess space for the blind
mounting; it’s best to ask the vertical blind manufacturer
in this case.
If you would like
to know more about inside mount vertical blinds, call 01604
671189, or contact
Blind Corner online. |