A Painted Blind
Dear Aunt Daisy, About ten years ago my large middle blind gave out. I turned it, and did all I could, but every time I touched it I made it worse. Finally I cut off all the ragged edges, and made two small blinds for the laundry. As I couldn’t buy good blind material anywhere, I got a remnant’ of hideous green blind material and painted it brown. I hung it on the line, and when dry, I put it. on the lawn to flatten. Believe it or not, I still have that blind up! The paint not only improved the colour-it also preserved the blind, for it is at present the best blind in the house. I didn’t paint both sides, as the paint went right through, quite evenly. I was really amazed at the wonderful job I had done. It wasn’t any well-known paint, just a pot of ordinary brown paint from one
of the stores. —
M.
G.
Canterbury.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 21
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164A Painted Blind New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 21
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