fancy bathroom blind

no more peep shows!!  as budget did not allow for a fancy custom printed blind, i decided to cobble together a custom patterned blind myself.  i used a fantastic kaffe fassett fabric from my hoard, so now i can look at it every day as opposed to looking at it neatly folded in a cupboard!

i started with an ikea cheapest ENJE roller blind and my lovely, lovely fabric...

i measured the length that the blind needed to be when fully rolled down in situ, and marked this length plus 5cm (so there would be no way that we would see the abrupt end of the fabric)...

i then weighed down the fabric and measured it against the blind, leaving about 10cm extra to wrap over the back.  (the champagne was a congratulatory bottle for a visual merchandising competition this time last year which is still to be drunk when i and my glamourous assistant get together for dinner - it was the heaviest thing  i had to hand!!!)

i used my new favourite adhesive product (and i do like adhesive products A LOT) to stick the fabric to the blind...

i spread the pva on in about 20cm sections and smoothed the fabric on using my metal metre rule (this was suprisingly effective, i only had to unpeel it a couple of tiny bits, due to small creases in the middle - i should have ironed them out first)

then i just had to adhere the remainder to the back of the blind, cut a straight edge...

and trim the along the edges (my fabric was only slightly wider than the blind, so i didn't need to cut the width before i pasted it).

then mr l.c., with his superior diy skillz, kindly fitted the blind, et voila...

a very stylish addition even though i say so myself, with the plus side that my neighbours no longer can be ambushed by the sight of my what would very kindly be described as rubenesque flesh anymore.