If You’ve Got Broken Blinds, This is The Best Way To Fix Them

You need to know how to fix mini blinds if you have kids or a naughty pet that repeatedly love to break and damage them. It’s actually way easier, and cheaper than I thought to do your own mini blind repair!We live in an apartment, like a bajillion other people, so every window comes pre-installed with white mini-blinds. The apartment contract and rules state that the mini-blinds need to be free from damages in order to help keep up appearances. Broken mini blinds apparently equal ghetto apartment complex. To keep future residents interested in renting, via the pristine mini-blinds, they periodically replace any broken ones for you. However, they charge us an outlandish $50 per mini blind replaced. Considering it take them all of about 1 minute to replace one, and they only cost $3-6, it is major highway robbery happening!

Our apartment recently stated that if they had to replace three or more mini blinds for you, you could be kicked out your apartment. Ca-razy! Especially considering at the time of that notice, we had, you guessed it, three broken mini blinds. Our kids really love destroying mini blinds!

In order to avoid $150 in charges and a potential boot, I determined to figure out how to fix mini blinds and save myself a bunch of money. So, I did what any sane 21st-century mom does, and searched Pinterest for a tutorial on how to fix mini blinds.

I came across this old post from DIY Project Crazy, and followed it to do my mini blind repair.

I picked up one brand new set of mini blinds for $6.25 from Lowe’s. I bought the cheapest one, because, well, we live in an apartment, and my kids regularly break the blinds slats. There were some nicer, better light blocking blinds, on rollback at Walmart, randomly sitting right by the entrance, for $5, last week, but I bought the wrong size, so I had to return it. By then they no longer had the size I needed.

Because one set of mini blinds was so mangled by my kids, I just replaced the whole thing with the new blinds. I then used the mangled blinds as the supply source to repair mini blinds in two other rooms.

However, if your mini blind is already longer than you need, and you only have a few slats to replace, you can use them for this tutorial and not have to spend any money!

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