Save Money! Make or Repair Your own 100% Authentic Wooden Blinds!

McInnis blinds have been made since 1939 and are far superior to the "faux wooden blinds" sold by others today. A true wooden blind has a wooden headerail, wooden tilt rail, wooden slats, wooden bottom rail, tilter with brass worm gear, and 3.5" wooden facia. The all wooden blinds are what you see in old 1900's homes and they are still functional.

In 1939, Leslie McInnis started making wooden blinds in Port Arthur, Texas. He later had locations in Beaumont and Orange, Texas. A family member had locations in Shreveport, Lake Charles, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. If you lived in East Text or southwest Louisiana and bought wooden blinds, they were probably made by a McInnis family member.

Jerry McInnis is second-generation, and McInnis Industries is about the last company in the country to make and repair true wooden blinds.

From 1900 to 1960 people bought real wooden blinds. About 1960, you saw the two-inch aluminum slat blinds. In 1980, the mini blinds became popular and today you see the faux (phony) wooden blinds. These faux blinds have a metal headrail like mini blinds, plastic parts, pastic tilter, and mini blind type of tap. Yet, they are still called a wooden blind.

Before you buy any wooden blind, look at the parts!!!

Go anywhere that sells "wooden blinds" (except McInnis Industries) and look carefully before you buy. You will see these blinds are no more than a glorified mini blind with wide slats. If you've ever had mini blinds, you know the problems and you have more problems with the faux wooden blinds due to the weight of wooden slats resting on mini blind parts.

"Wooden" Blinds Sold By Others... ...have a metal headrail like mini blinds ...use a plastic drum to hold tape ...use mini blind style of tape.

Enlarged view of competitors' drum in the faux blinds Note the mini blind style of tape used in faux blinds mounts here and the total weight of the slats are held into place by plastic. This breaks very easily & no way to repair!

Look at the difference! A tilter in a McInnis wooden blind and a tilter in a faux wooden blind. McInnis Tilter is metal with brass worm gear. These last 75+ years. The tilter on the faux blind is plastic and easily breakable.

McInnis Industries offers you four options for Authentic Wooden Blinds

Option A Parts Only Buy the hardware and make your own wooden slats and rails. Tilter with brass worm gear Tilter to tilt rail connector Cord Lock Cord Pin to tilt rail connector left and right bracket for 3.5" facia Four (4) authentic wooden tassels

Option B Complete Blind ready-to-finish Slats cut to size, routed Headrail, tilt rail, and hardware assembled 3.5" facia cut to size bottom rail cut to size left and right brackets Four (4) authentic wooden tassels cord for blind - authentic (various colors) tape for blind - authentic 1.5" face solid ladder tape (various colors) All you need to do is stain or paint blinds and assemble!!

Option C New Blinds Have us make your blinds in any paint or finish of your choice.

Option D Repairs If you have old wooden blinds, we can retape them, repaint them, or do whatever to refurbish your old blinds. We also sell the tape and cord if you would like to retape your existing blinds. Many places will advise you to discard your old blinds, but do not. They are worth fixing and will outlast the new faux blinds.

The McInnis family has been making and repairing old blinds since 1939!!

Many people who buy an older home with old authentic wooden blinds are told they were not worth repairing, could not get parts or tape as no longer available. They have thrown out their old blinds only to find their blinds could have been repaired or restored back to their original condition by McInnis Industries.

The old style blinds are far superior to the new faux (phony wood) blinds today that have mini-blind style of tape, a metal headrail, and plastic parts.

McInnis Industries Can...

• Make a blind to cover your special wide opening up to 16 feet in width
• Make a blind with any color or stain
• Provide commercial grade tape and cord. We have instructions and will gladly aid you if you wish to repair your own blinds
• Make new slats if you have broken ones and provide authentic hardware if yours is broken or missing
• Make new authentic wooden blinds

Wide Windows

Many old buildings have very large windows and, to our knowledge, we are the only company in the country that offers wooden blinds with slats up to 16 feet wide! Our special wooden slats are milled in 16 foot lengths so we can make a blind to cover your special wide opening up to 16 feet in width!

Other manufacturers of blinds will tell you that a blind for a wide window should be made using two or three blinds. They do not offer slats up to 16 feet, but only offer slats six feet or so wide. Their blinds do not have a wooden headrail with commercial wide tape like a McInnis all-wooden blind, but have a metal headrail with plastic parts and mini blind style of tape. This type of blind is a glorified mini blind with wide slats and inferior to the McInnis authentic wooden blind that have been made since 1939. Many of the original McInnis blinds are still in use today! A McInnis blind has no plastic parts!

Any Color - Any Stain

Most manufacturers only offer blinds in a few standard colors or stains. A McInnis all wooden blind will be painted any color or stain of your choice! Ask others if they offer the "any color-any stain" option!

How do we do it??

McInnis Industries Procedure for Blind Restoration
1) The blinds are disassembled
2) The blinds are washed
3) The blinds are cleaned in a special solution to remove any mold or mildew.
4) The top rail, tilt rail, slats, bottom rail and facia are sanded.
5) We apply two coats of a primer oil base to each side of the slat.
6) We apply 2 coats of a paint in any color of your choice to each slat. We can also stain your blinds to have a natural look.
7) We retape and record using commercial grade tape.

We have had people find blinds in old garage sales or old homes that were being torn down and we restored them back to their 1920-30's look!

This wooden blind was built in 1930 and we restored it to its original condition!

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Mr. Leslie McInnis started manufacturing wooden blinds in 1939 and Mr. Jerry McInnis still makes the authentic blinds. If you have an old house that you are restoring, McInnis Industries can manufacture authentic wooden blinds. We also can recondition your blinds or sell you the supplies.

We are about the last in the country that still have the equipment to manufacture these authentic wooden blinds.

Today, the wooden blinds made by others are a spin off of mini blinds. They have metal headrail, wand and mini blind tape and wooden slats. If you are restoring an old home or office, this was not the type that were in the home initially.

These are true authentic wooden blinds. They have a wooden headrail, wooden tilt rail, wooden bottom rail and wide style tape. These are the blinds like you see in old plantation homes.

New Wooden Blinds
Look alike wooden and faux (phony wood) blinds have a metal headrail, mini blind style of tape, wand and they are basically a mini blind with wide slats. McInnis Industries still manufactures the true, authentic all wooden blinds and can also repair or restore you old blinds that people have told you to "throw away" as no longer worth fixing or unable to get tape etc.

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