How to Make Fold-Up Insulated Blinds for Your Van or RV/ Step-by-Step Tutoria

In this video, I’m going to take you step-by-step through making fold-up and store-in-place insulated blinds for your van or RV.

After traveling in our van for over a year now, we decided to rethink the blinds I had made.
We’ll tell you what didn’t work with the original blinds Kristina made and how we’ve redesigned them to work better for our needs.

These fold-up blinds make it easier to pull them closed and store them when they aren’t in use without taking up valuable storage space in our short-body Ram Promaster 136 van.

0.00 Intro
01:39 What Didn’t Work
04:15 A New Design
04:43 The Tools You’ll Need
07:51 Design Your Blinds
14:16 Cutting the Pieces
16:15 Attaching the Magnets
21:19 Sewing it Together
22:54 Making the Pockets for the Insulation (Easy-Cool)
25:03 Making the Ruffle
27:26 Attaching the Straps
29:02 Placing the Insulation (Easy Cool)
31:41 Attaching the Trim Board
32:38 Installing the Blinds
35:21 One Last Tip to Hold the Ruffle Down

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