Hello. My toddlers bedroom is small with nice large west facing windows. As the sun sets later and later, I am looking for ideas that will allow for the room to be darkened while still easily being bright and open during the daytime.
I am including a few pictures of the room. The biggest issues I am having is that the bed is in front of the window and that I want to keep the existing blinds. Additionally it must be something that is safe to go in a kids bedroom. There are not many ways to rearrange the furniture (there’s a closet beside the bookshelf not pictured). I do not like curtains to sit behind furniture, and I like curtains that hit the floor. I have thought about a roller shade but the thing I like about blinds is the ability to let in some light without having the entire window open. Could it be possible to add a roll down curtain or shade on top of the blinds?
In a previous home, when he was an infant, I taped up cardboard to make the room black out. And I do not believe he needs black out at his age, plus I am looking for a more classy and permanent solution. The cardboard was hard to put up again if you needed to let in light. I am open to creative solutions. But I am currently at a loss.
by jaygamm
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What about top-down/bottom-up cellular shades? You can get combination blackout and light filtering that do both, so you don’t lose the light, plus you can open them completely from the top or bottom if you want to look out the window.
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Have you considered a double curtain rod? The blinds remain. The inner rod holds a white sheer. The outer rod holds the curtains. During the day, just pull the curtains and blinds open. Leave the sheers for nice filtered bright light during the day.
Cheap solution: Home depot makes room darkening paper cellular shades. My son put these behind his other shades when he wants absolute darkness–they’re inexpensive so if you opt later you don’t want them, you just take off (they are adhesive at top). They really made his room pitch black haha (put room darkening, paper in search bar). It’s not the most fancy look but did the trick in his apt.