Blackout stuff

knip · 30 Jun 2007 at 19:47

Ive got two roller blinds in my bedroom, but now its so light so early in the morning, I tend to get woken up by the sun streaming in and it not being dark enough in here.
Short of me getting two new blinds, is there a blackout material I could stick to the blind so that it would roll up and down like the blind does already?

Or should I just get blackout blinds?

The only thing that puts me off new blinds is that one of the windows is an odd shape, not very wide yet long, and I know it was a faff to find one in the first place.

PhillyDee · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:32

I had the same problem. My windows are waaay oer the 1.6m drop that is normal. Bought some blackout blinds and staples curtain lining to the bottom. I got this from the market fabric stall. It is blackout material. You can normally buy it by the metre.

eddie101 · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:35

That should do the job

knip · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:35

So you just saw it at the market, im not trying to be funny, I just wondered if you have seen it anywhere else?

knip · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:36

eddie101 said:
That should do the job

But its a material blind?

eddie101 · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:40

hmmm im out of ideas then, just go to a local market, i have seen some at a few, if not look in the yellow pages, curtain makers, ring round see if they have any.

seaviewuk · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:46

Black cardboard from stationers.

Cut to size.

Stick on using sticky loops.

Sorted

csmager · 30 Jun 2007 at 21:15

Ikea Blackout Blind: £20.

Two of my housemates bought them, their rooms were near enough pitch black this year.

knip · 30 Jun 2007 at 21:15

csmager said:
Ikea Blackout Blind: £20.

Two of my housemates bought them, their rooms were near enough pitch black this year.

But do they come in odd widths/lengths?

manoz · 30 Jun 2007 at 21:17

knip said:
But do they come in odd widths/lengths?

No, 20cm increments from 60cm(or was it 80cm?) to 200cm. Should be able to cut them though.

ste_bla · 30 Jun 2007 at 21:19

knip said:
But do they come in odd widths/lengths?

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50122570

195 width
60 - 200 length in 20cm bits

knip · 30 Jun 2007 at 21:22

ste_bla said:
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50122570

Thanks a lot, but one of my blinds is 85cm wide and the other is 95cm, and I cant have them bigger or smaller due to the frames they need to screw on.
Grrrr!!
Thats why I was asking about something that would stick onto my existing ones.