Gotten a question from a user named Akash on the forums. Akash had just picked up some new blinds from an online store and was looking for some help for shortening them down now. I've done an article a little while back on how to short another faux wood blinds but these ones are a little different. These are the two-and-a-half-inch premium faux wood blinds ones that we've carried in the store a little bit of a different beast. So we're going to go over the instructions on how to shorten them down and I'll give you a little description of my way of personally shortening that. So let's go take a look. Okay, I'm going to start a bit differently and I'm just going to display the real de Tourny factor that makes these blinds a lot different than the other ones. Obviously, you'll notice like you pointed out there's no hole in the middle. For these ones, the route holes are all on the very edges like these and they're connected by these really thin strings for these blinds and we're shortening them down. You'll see that I've got them on a table easiest ways to shorten them while they're up. However, this is the way that I choose it that I personally find it easiest for me in this instance. I'm just going to take off once lat for, however many you need. You're going to want to just repeat the steps that I'm telling you, here for the number of slots you're going to remove but for this one what we're going to do is we're going to actually go after these small little strings. Here that go through the round holes and when I remove these strings it's going to allow me to slide the slat out.
In the other version, all we had to do is basically pull them from the ladders and pull them out. This one’s actually held on, so I'm going to want to grab these strings first and once I cut these it's going to allow me to cut the slat. Okay so on this one I'm just going to take my small box cutter, you can also use a pair of scissors will work just fine but for this demonstration, I love my little box cutter. So I'm going to use that to cut. I'm just going to cut those thin strings off of there just see the slats already starting to separate there and then should be another one right on there, do the same thing for the other side here. Okay, so that you'll see that now the slats are released. I'm able to pull the slab out remove it from the line. Set it aside so now I've removed it once lat again for however long. You're going to want to remove a different number of slats for these but for this one, I'm just going to remove the one and we'll move on and what I'm going to do now is I'm gonna actually tell you the first step to definitive lines is becoming the second step for this. So I'm going to tell you now that we're going to move this bottom bar up. So that we are not left with this unsightly hole in the middle of the [blind](https://onepriceblinds.com/
) here so let's move on to that step okay I'm going to move on to the step of removing or moving the bottom bar at this point. The way that I'm going to do this is going to differ from the directions just a bit.