Austrian blind

(Furniture) a window blind consisting of rows of vertically gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches

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Austrian or festoon: Once all frills and fuss, the Austrian blind has acquired a more sophisticated, streamlined look.

Be clever and in style with blinds

Run your Austrian blind cord from the bottom brass ring, knotting it securely and up through the other rings then through and along the net wire eyes to whichever edge you want the cord to hang.

HOME LIFE: Dark side of the room; Designer Alexis was expecting black looks about her colour idea .. but it's all light on the night

Run your Austrian blind cord from the bottom brass ring (knotting it securely) up through the other rings and through and along the net wire eyes to whichever edge you want the cord to hang.

HOME LIFE: Enter the light house; When designer Alexis Leech saw Bill and Rosemary Frame's dull living room, she knew she had a job on her hands. But she made light work of putting some sunshine into their lives

You also require safety pins, a staple gun, or panel pins or self-adhesive Velcro, Austrian blind cord, screw eyes and a brass hook or cleat.

It's curtains for needles; Designer LAURA GILL dreams up four stunning window treatments that won't break the bank. And, even better, they don't require a single stitch to create

All you need is fabric glue, a packet of safety pins, a length of braid, panel pins or brass tacks, self-adhesive velcro, two screw eyes, a brass hook and some Austrian blind cord.

The bright fantastic; The bedrooms of most teenage boys are dark and gloomy. Not so the bold space-age sanctuary we created for Craig Johnston

Screw in net wire eyes in line with the punched holes on to the top baton, then, using Austrian blind cord, string the blinds up, stapling the cord to the bottom baton, then passing it through all the holes to the top.

Scarlet O'Hara; After a decade of messing up the decor devised for a little girl, law student Marie-Louise finds out that having an oriental mix in her attic bedroom can have a pure red brilliant effect

"You use a strip of Austrian blind tape up the centre, thread your string pull through rings, and then when you pull the blind up, it goes into a pretty fan pleat.

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Also available are Austrian Blinds, Roman blinds and loose covers.

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'AFTER 25 years of putting up with a smattering of wallpaper, some old-fashioned Austrian blinds and no real carpet to speak of, it was a fantastic feeling to rip out the old bedroom.

Things can only get.. bedde; A tired bedroom that hadn't been updated for 25 YEAR Snow looks like a dream

We might be inspired by the psychedelic 60s again soon - and then even Austrian blinds might not seem quite so bad.

window of opportunity; MARJORIE CALDER says it's curtains for the old style formality of drapes

Besides, those blasted Austrian blinds took an age to hoist up and down.

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Looking through people's windows now you wouldn't think that even just 10 years ago your only real high street option of shutting your neighbours out was net curtains or Austrian blinds a and net curtains were tagged with all kinds of stereotypical assumptions ( curtain-twitching for instance.