Blind ignorance

When we first moved into Hillside we bought a couple of wooden venetian blinds for the front windows. We made a point of not buying the (cheaper) plastic version.

To help with privacy, and maintain the impression that we were still in the house during the build, we left the blinds in place despite the dust and muck that the builders were throwing about. In hindsight we should've taken them down much sooner as we were planning on reusing them, after all part of our eco-ethos is to minimise what we throw 'away' into landfill. (To quote Bridget Strawbridge 'there is no such thing as 'away''!)

Now that we're at the stage of starting to re-dress the windows we've dug out the rather filthy blinds to see what we can salvage. With some soapy hot water the slats have cleaned relatively easily, as has most of the cord. Even on the blind most soiled by brick dust, we've been able to wash the cords back to the original white. The only thing that has so far eluded us is getting replacement box brackets as the builders managed to discard them somewhere when they removed the blinds.

You'd think getting replacement brackets was easy. Alas it isn't. Even Google has failed us as it seems that our disposable culture even extends to blinds - if a bit is missing or broken you replace the whole thing and buy a new one. We don't want to do this, so are still looking for white (ideally) brackets so that we can reuse what are perfectly good venetian blinds. So if you have any spare brackets lying around in a drawer, or shed etc, let me know.