Practical beauty. We do roller blinds with our own hands

Simple and functional interior items are gaining increasing popularity due to their laconicism and ease of use. Minimalist interiors without unnecessary decorative details, which do not bear any additional burden, except decorative and decorating, bring to our life elegant simplicity and convenience. Rooms with the minimum number of only necessary items, where skillfully combine decoration and functionality, are convenient for living and maintaining cleanliness, and also fill the space with air and light. Here, every thing is in its place, and every detail carries a double load - decorative and utilitarian. Therefore, creating an interior of a room in the style of minimalism, you need to be especially attentive to the decoration of the room, as well as to the necessary interior details, such as curtains.

Roller blinds, blinds are very comfortable, simple and straightforward. They fully correspond to their direct purpose - to protect the room from excessive penetration of light and sunlight. The dense texture of the material, as well as the movable structure, make it convenient to control them, creating the level of illumination that is needed at the moment, or to darken the room completely. Often the functional component of these interior items is thought out to the point that manufacturers equip them with an electronic mechanism with remote control so that they can be controlled from a distance. However, roller shutters and blinds have one drawback, they are very simple and laconic, but you want the functionality and convenience in a living room to be combined with external originality and decorative. There is a simple way out - to sew blind blinds with your own hands. It also helps to save money, because there are a lot of such interior items.

How to make roller blinds with your own hands? It is not difficult. Of course, technically, such products will not be as perfect as branded ones, but certainly they will be much more original, more creative and more exclusive. So, in order to sew the roller blinds with your own hands, you will need a dense fabric for the main curtain fabric and for decorative ties, a round wooden bar, a square wooden bar, a construction stapler, a velcro tape for clothes.

We begin the work with the necessary measurements. The curtain must cover only the window opening, it is not folded and draped, so its size should correspond to the window opening from the top edge to the window sill along the vertical and from one to the other edge of the opening horizontally. To calculate the necessary amount of fabric, we make increments for allowances: from the top - 5 cm, from the sides and from the bottom - to 2.5 cm. For the main cloth, you can take the necessary double length of the same fabric, fold it face down and sew, then To unscrew. You can use companion cloths, for example one with a pattern, another one of a color suitable for the curtains , also fold together, sew on the sides and bottom, and turn it out. To strengthen the lower edge of the curtains, we spend kulisku, a little more than the thickness of the prepared round wooden stick, and insert the stick into it. With her help we will roll the curtain with a roll. On both sides for weighting and more decorative on the wand can be put on the figured tips. The upper edge of the curtains should be bent down to 5 cm and spread out along the very edge and recede to the width of the binder. On the reverse side, we take note, and then sew a Velcro tape. Before it is sewn, we prepare decorative ties, which we distribute along the width of the curtains at equal distance and put under the tape. They will fix the roll curled by a roll at the correct height.

Decorative ties are made from the same fabric as the main product, or from another, close or contrastive hue, it all depends on the design idea. Their width is 3-5 cm, the length is twenty to thirty centimeters longer than the curtains. Decorative tapes should be tight and very even. Therefore, inside it is possible to lay non-woven (but not very thick) and machine stitch to try to do as smoothly as possible. Depending on the purpose of curtains and their style solution, the tie can be decorated with embroidery, braid, sew on the ends of a brush or pompons.

It remains to attach the product over the window. To do this, take a wooden bar, the length of which by 1 cm should be less than the width of the curtains, wrap it with a cloth, which is fixed with a stapler on the hidden side. To the bar, you can attach flat brackets on both sides (the bar must be snug against the wall), or directly screw it to the wall with long screws. From the front side along the entire length, attach a second side of the Velcro tape to it with a stapler, on which then fasten the blind.

To the note to the master. Making the roller blinds with their own hands, it is important to make sure that the seams on the sides and underneath do not shine through the fabric. If it is dense, this should not be feared, and when stitching a more thin fabric, it is necessary to lay dense patches on the sides and on the sides.

Roll blinds with their own hands can be sewn and made of organza. They will look very beautiful and original, if you cut off nylon, brocade or thin satin silk from between two cloth panels and fix them all over the surface with a curly machine stitch, or cut out individual details from the lace, sew on the curtain, and carefully remove the fabric under such application With sharp manicure scissors.