House modification projects

I am practicing using this blog again after my long hiatis.

Here is a very boring, but extremely cost effective and useful project I sewed not so long ago.

DD2 and FavouriteSIL bought a frankly terrible fixer upper of a house some time ago, and naturally used all of their savings to do this. 

DD2 works from home several days a week and there was no air conditioning. There was no blind outside the western window, but some old blind infrastructure. A new blind was not in the budget in the short term.

Feeling maternal, I made a housewarming present for them from some allegedly weatherrestistant canvas from Spotlight (my budget wasn't up to Sunbrella for a short term fix).

 

This stretched my skill set a little, as I had to make holes in the fabric with a hot nail, heated with my kitchen blow torch, in order to attach the bottom of the blind to the rail.

I may have had to climb on the dodgy extension roof to do this.

Fortunately everything was completed safely, and my daughter has now been using this blind for about a year with complete satisfaction reported. The fabric has faded, but not too badly, and in an even manner that is not unsightly.