How To Hang Window Blinds

How to Install Window Blinds

Updated: Jun. 26, 2019

Blinds are practical, relatively inexpensive and very easy to install. Simply follow these steps and y'all'll have your blinds installed in no fourth dimension at all.

Install Window Blinds mounting brackets for blinds

Instructions for how to install window blinds.

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Within- or exterior-mount?

Mounting brackets for blinds: Within- or outside-mount?

Look at your window and make up one's mind if you want to mount the blinds on the within of the window frame (jamb) or exterior and/or above the window frame. Within-mounted blinds look tidy and that's the way to go in most situations. Outside mounted blinds cover up part of the frame and the mounting subclass holes will show if the brackets are removed at a afterwards date. One compelling reason to get with exterior mount is if the window frame is also shallow to suit the mounting brackets. If your window trim has holes from someone else's window hardware, here's how to fill those holes quickly and easily.

Make good choices

Near mini blinds are made of vinyl or aluminum. Forest and faux woods blinds are available at a college cost. Also, blinds come either with a cord (for lowering and raising the slats) or without a cord (slats are raised and lowered by moving the bottom rails upward or downwardly.) Corded shades are readily available and cordless may need to be special ordered. Cords are a gamble to young children, and so cull the safer cordless option if kids will be around. If yous have a grandparent or other seniors living with you, check out these 16 helpful tips for making your home safer for older people.

Measure and buy

Measure out and buy

If you've chosen to inside-mountain your blinds, measure out the width of the window space. Select a blind with a width that volition fit inside the infinite. Don't become too narrow or you'll have gaps that reduce privacy and let in likewise much light. For outside mountain, measure the width y'all'd similar to cover up and select a blind with that width. Nearly blinds come up in standard widths to fit common window sizes. Some blinds tin be custom-cutting where you purchase them or, if you're non in a big hurry and you don't mind spending more than, blinds can be custom-ordered to fit your dimensions.

Open up the package

Open the package

When you lot open the box, take hold of the instructions and see what's supposed to exist included. Make sure it's all there before you lot exercise annihilation else. Also, be certain yous have a drill/driver (or screwdriver) and a pencil to mark the locations of the bracket holes.

Marker the bracket holes

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Marker the mounting brackets for blinds holes

Concur the bracket in identify to mark the holes. An inch or then from the edge is usually a prophylactic spot for an within mount, as shown, but look at your blinds and make sure the bracket won't interfere with the internal mechanisms of the bullheaded. If your bullheaded came with a template for the bracket holes, use that to mark them.

Drill pilot holes

Drill pilot holes to make information technology easier to install the screws that hold the brackets.

Install the window blind brackets

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Install the brackets

Agree the window blind brackets in identify, line up the holes and install the screws. Repeat with the second bracket. If yous don't have a drill/driver, the screws tin be installed with a screwdriver, merely it takes longer and information technology may be very difficult, if not incommunicable, to install them with a screwdriver if the window frame is made of hardwood or metal.

Voila!

Pop the end caps onto the superlative rail of the blinds and then identify the superlative rail into the brackets. The blinds shown here snap right onto the brackets. With some blinds, the top rail fits into the brackets and you snap down a little flap. Test the blinds to make sure they get up and down properly. All good? Footstep dorsum and admire your piece of work!

Install the tilt wand

Install the tilt want

Hook on the tilt wand and exam to brand certain it tilts the slats up and down.

Cleats

Plastic cleats were included with our blinds. Install them and you tin wrap the cord effectually them when the blinds are pulled upward.

Concur-down brackets

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Hold-down window bullheaded brackets

Our blinds also included these hold-down brackets. In one case installed, yous can keep the bottom rail hooked on the brackets so the blinds won't flap around when the window is open on a informal day. Wind can also wreak havoc on your screen door. Repair a screen door easily with these elementary steps.

Temporary solution

What tin can you do if you need something to cover your windows correct now or you live in a building where yous're non immune to drill holes in your walls or window frames? Temporary shades are the answer! They're very cheap, take only minutes to install (you merely cut them to fit, pare off the adhesive protector strip and stick them up!) and they don't look half bad! Plus, when you lot take them downward there'southward no damage to the surface underneath.

Originally Published: June 26, 2019