Venetian blinds that hang too long look untidy and collect dust on the sill, but you don’t need a new blind to fix it. You can shorten one at home with a pair of scissors: take out the slats you don’t need, then re-tie the lift cords under the bottom rail. Here’s how.
Can you shorten venetian blinds yourself?
Yes. Hang the blind, choose the slat level with the sill as your new bottom slat, then pull the plugs from the bottom rail and cut the lift cords. Slide off the extra slats, refit the bottom rail, re-knot the lift cords, trim the ladder strings and push the plugs back in.
Our process:
We’ve put together an easy-to-follow method so you can shorten Venetian blinds all by yourself. Simply work through the steps below and you can’t go wrong.
- Install your blinds and determine the desired length that you would like. Usually, the bottom of the blind should be at least an inch and a quarter above the window.
- Select the slat that is even with the window sill – this will end up being the new bottom slat of the blind.
- Remove the plugs from the bottom of the slat. This should be easy and won’t give you too much trouble.
- Pull the excess lift cords and cut the cord, trimming the ladder and the string.
- Push and slide the bottom rail out of the cord.
- Remove all excess slats.
- Insert the bottom rail.
- Insert the lift cords back into the plum and then tie a knot.
- Trim the excess ladder cords.
- Twist the ladder cords and slide them into the hole at the bottom of the rail and insert the plugs.
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