This post is more about home maintenance than a shiny new project. One of the blinds in my room doesn't work on one side. The cause: a sad little broken draw string. The solution: re-thread the blinds!

Unfortunately, the process of taking the blinds down was not a clean operation. Without the drawstring keeping them in place, some of the louvers came out of the ribbon holding them.

After carefully and tediously returning each to its place in the ribbon, I started threading the new drawstring (another tedious process.)

I learned a lot about how blinds work, and even more about how some DON'T work, but at the end of it all I finally had some nicely working blinds!