CHEAP AND SIMPLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 4

CHEAP AND SIMPLE

BLACK-OUT BLINDS FOR CASEMENT WINDOWS

LOCAL RESIDENT'S IDEA

An Eastbourne resident, having seen that a shortage has been reported in Wellington of materials for the manufacture of window blinds needed by householders in order to conform with the black-out regulations, has kindly submitted for publication the simple and inexpensive method whereby she was able to make effective black-out screens for all the windows of her house For less than £1, she made

screens for seven casement windows. Here is the method which she devised herself: —

First she bought a roll of black building paper which cost 12s 6d and was twice as much as she needed. Then she purchased a couple of packets of tacks and a bundle of laths, the bundle costing 6s and containing four dozen laths. These laths being four foot six inches long1 did not have to be cut in any way.

Placing the building paper on the floor she cut it into strips just a little bit longer than the length of her casements. The average casement has a width of 45 inches. As the paper was only 36 inches wide she overlapped two strips of the paper to make the correct width and sandwiched them at the edges top and bottom (with the overlapping pieces placed vertically) be-