Black Out Blinds?

Mrs.Guz

Anyone know where to get some? Abigail's been waking up with the sun lately...

ally-cat

We had the same problem so I sort of rigged my own solution.  I bought a cheapo pressure mounted curtain rod, black curtains ( I even think they said black out on them-walmart), slid the curtain on, mounted it and done.   It is very dark in his room now.  : )

ally-cat

And I want to add the "rigged" part is not visible, the reg. curtain and valance hides it.

scarlet115

I don't know about blinds, but I bought black-out curtains at Target and put them over their two windows and it works great! On rainy days, it looks like its night time in their room!!! They had all sorts of colors.

tracigator

We got some plain, white black-out shades at Home Depot.  They're kinda blah but they do the job. 

Mrs Manners

We keep it DARK in Sean's room. We have regular blinds that we close all the way (they match the rest and that's what's visible from the outside of the house). Over those we have a blackout roller shade (the kind that you can pull and it rolls up and down) that we got at Walmart - specifically states blackout on the package (and there were two degrees of blackout ability -we got the darker one). Over the top of those (and visible to the inside of the room) are blackout curtains that we bought at Lowes (I'm sure they probably carry the blinds too). One of the things that helps in our other rooms (we didn't do a good job in the nursery of this) is that we hung the curtains well over the top of the window and well to the side. This provides extra coverage and helps diffuse the light coming around the corners of the other stuff and keeps it from shining through.

With his blackout gear and his sound machine, he sleeps until 9:00 most mornings

hthomas02

ditto the target black out curtains, they were really cheap too!

delta21

Tritto the Target ones.  I think they were about $15 for one drape.

coffeekitten

I got mine at Bed Bath and Beyond. Anywhere has them and you can probably find them cheaper then BBB. Oh, stay away from the gimmicky ones that are recommeded for kids rooms like in the baby catalogues (they look beige and are vinyl. These are a waste of money and do not do a thing (I even tried taping them to the wall).

 

Ditto to the sound machine from above. It works great!

Kerrin

I ordered black out curtains from PBK, and they were on back order.  Found idential ones for 1/4th the price at JCPenney. 

SunshineGirl07

coffeekitten:

I got mine at Bed Bath and Beyond. I used the coupons that they constantly send out.

We also use a portable fan to keep the air circulating. I put it on medium during nap time and slow at night. It works really well.