[VAC] Re: Window treatments

[Daisy Welch <jtdjtd@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

I love blinds, keep the sun out, let some light in, and I can peek at
the neighbors...

I started with really cheap plastic blinds from Wally World. I cut them
off with a saber saw if they were too long, and shortened their strings
and removed slats .  I just redid the back bedroom with wooden ones from
Home Despot, and run them all the way up to the light fixture. Looks a
lot less like the inside of an ostrich egg in there now. 

To keep the bottom of the blinds from hanging out, I used thin bungee
chords. On the white plastic ones, I hooked them into the hole in the
ends of the bottom bar. This grabs onto my window latches and holds the
blinds in. For the bedroom, I screwed a length of shock cord on the back
side of the bottom, and it grabs the window latches, and then disappears
behind.

I don't know for sure what kind of window latches you have in a 66.
perhaps an unobtrusive hook, kind of like the ones on speed laced boots.

I think the fancy blinds that have a track would be cool, but would the
track bend to conform to the curve, and wow, at $85 a pop, I'm happy
with what I got.

Go play with cheap ones to see what it's like.

Daisy