Blackout curtains.

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Thinking of getting a pair of blackout curtains; my current ones barely stop any light getting through. The sun rises at about 4:30 during these summer months and it can be quite the pain. Anyone got any experiences or recommendations?
 
My south facing window I had to stick a blackout roll blind and dual-layer blackout curtains to reduce light well enough for the summer months, the other window just standard blackout curtains work well enough.
 
I just have Dunelm berlin blackout curtains in the bedroom.
Sure a small amount of light comes from the sides as it can't be flat to the wall, but that's expected still pretty dark.
 
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Get dense weave lined blackout curtains with a proper linen backing they're heavy but cut out 99% of the light the only light penetration is from the gaps around them. Regular curtains are so thin they look nice but they're useless for cutting out light they're just privacy screens essentially
 
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Blackout blind on bedroom window then some normal curtains does us.

Some kind of way to pin the edges if light leaking in along the sides annoys you.

IKEA sells them, bit racist tho.
 
We have cheap Ikea blackout blinds in our bedroom but they let some light in at the sides. Curtains help reduce that, do a good enough job in combo.

We fitted John Lewis long heavy weave thermal blackout curtains in our son's room, over his patio doors. They are worth every penny. They blackout any light if you over lap them properly and they block any draught too.

Got him a matching electric blackout blind that is almost perfect. His window is very wide for the room size. Their largest blind was too wide but the size down, that we bought, only covers the casement by an inch either side. He gets an annoying amount of light bleed on one side in the morning this time of year. Might need to make some fixed runner edges to seal the edges.
 
Is a sleep mask an option? Although I have blackout curtains, the curtain rail is too far off the wall and so lots of light bleed over the top makes the room quite light by even 4:30 and I'm woken by it. I got quite a nice padded sleep mask and it often helps.
 
Not sure on the name of those we have front and back, but do know they were from Dunelm and do a decent enough job.

In the bedroom we have that combined with a drop down blackout blind and that with the curtain does a good job.
 
Blackout curtains make a big difference. They upgraded the streetlight outside the house to a G-class sun- now it is not a problem.

We got some from dunelm.

They can be a lot heavier than normal curtains, so take that into account.
 
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Get dense weave lined blackout curtains with a proper linen backing they're heavy but cut out 99% of the light the only light penetration is from the gaps around them.
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This is what I've got essentially - dense weave thermal curtains (which do a decent job in summer of slowing down how quickly the room heats up and noticeably slows heat loss in winter) and also marginally, but noticeably, reduce noise with a linen blackout backing - they block like 99% of light but as mentioned there is the issue of light bleeding around them so I put a blackout blind in the actual window opening itself which means very little light now spills through.

I can't remember which bits are which but curtains wise I've a mixture of Dunelem, Homescapes and H.Versailtex, the blinds came from Argos not sure brand.
 
I bought blackout curtains but they did not block all the light. So I bought a blackout curtain liner and sowed that on and then it was 100% blackout.

Over time though the coating on the blackout liner stated to disintergrate into a powder so most frustrating.
 
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