Replace stock window interior shades

Custom miniblinds are usually made to mount inside the window opening, a precise fit. They can be ordered to precisely fit the inside of the valence.

If you have something that screws into a wall, it must be an off-the-shelf product to cover the window opening, rather than fit it? Yes, that will be a mounting problem.

Roller shades are also custom fit, it was something they used to do right at the store when we still bought them at the hardware or the five and dime. I've not shopped shades or blinds at Walmart, I go to a home decorator outlet.

The valance box Winnebago installs will serve for mounting. That is its function with the OEM blinds, they mount into the top of the box. Small ones with just the factory clip, longer ones into the clip and a couple of extra wood screws driven through the top of the blind into the top of the valance.

Most mini-blinds mount into clips that screw up into the top of a window opening or the sides. The clips have screw holes for both mountings, I've installed then both ways in my houses.

If you want roller shades or drapes, the mounting hardware will likely have to screw into the ends of the box.

Metal or plastic miniblinds work pretty well in towable RVs, but people who put them in motorhomes are sometimes bothered by the noise they make while they travel. Drapes are quite enough, roller shades behave pretty well when rolled up.

Mike Leslie wrote:
I restrung one on a 2003 MWinnie, but didn't replace it. Why wouldn't a blind from let's say JC Penney, work?

Mike Leslie

I bhght one from walmart but it is a reg home blind and it takes all sorts of assembly & long wood screws. No problem but one has to fig out how to install it w/o putting holes in the walls. IOW, how to attach it to the existing valance pieces that ALREADY attached to the walls.

Savvy?

RR

I restrung one on a 2003 MWinnie, but didn't replace it. Why wouldn't a blind from let's say JC Penney, work?

Mike Leslie