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Any useful ways to use slats..

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tanith

tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite

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27 May 2008 at 3:57PM in Old style MoneySaving

I am putting up wooden venetian blinds and have loads of slats to remove to shorten them , I am loathe to just chuck them in the bin as they are a really nice pale wood and there must be a good way to use them .. Any ideas welcome? Some are 2' long and some are 6'...

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Yategirl Posts: 839 Forumite

27 May 2008 at 6:21PM

use the slats as plant labels! Just trim the slats to equal lengths! well... that is what I did with mine!

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sandy2_2 Posts: 1,931 Forumite

27 May 2008 at 7:19PM

tanith wrote: »

I am putting up wooden venetian blinds and have loads of slats to remove to shorten them , ..

I didn'tknow you could shorten venetian blinds, can you post the instructions please and more importantly is it easy

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zarazara Posts: 2,264 Forumite

27 May 2008 at 7:22PM

can you make an old fashioned cloths dryer ? a "sheila maid"?

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pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite

27 May 2008 at 8:28PM

matching shelves???

nail 2 or 3 or 4 (depending on width) to a strip of wood or a piece of another lat? and mount on the wall??

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culpepper Posts: 4,076 Forumite

27 May 2008 at 8:39PM

You could make place mats with them and matching coasters..

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Stephen_Leak Posts: 8,762 Forumite

27 May 2008 at 10:13PM

Pot stand (or lots of them)?

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