If you like a darkened room for, well, pretty much anything, then you're probably already rocking some blackout curtains. Since we're trying to get my son into his Big Boy Bed, I also thought that eliminating any other extraneous issues might help our cause. Enter: Walmart and their Eclipse blackout curtains! Thanks heavens for affordable alternatives because my mom and I were looking at Bed, Bath, & Beyond a few days back and gawked at the prices for their similarly styled curtains. Good thing I didn't have the window measurements on hand or we might have overspent.
Since I didn't feel the need to drill extra holes in the walls or get an extended curtain rod, it was all quite simple. The look, design, or color of the curtain was a moot point since it's behind a set of white vertical blinds like you see above. A simple tension rod, also from Walmart, fit into the window well just so and voila! Only $30 ($8 rod, $22 set of 2 curtains) and 10 minutes later, we had a darkened room. As you can see, it's not blackout, per se, but it sure does darken the room. Bonus: it also keeps it much cooler (I know, it says so on the packaging, but it also says blackout, so, meh) and seems to have quite the insulating on it, all things considered.
I was even too lazy to cut it or try and customize it to fit the A/C, so you can see there's definitely some light leakage. I'm not too concerned, though, because even in the middle of the day it looks like a super faint sunset rather than the beaming sun that graces us here in Hawaii. An added benefit is that at night, it looks like night, since we live in a townhome complex, there's always some ambient light from the surrounding community. Luckily, the outer facing backing is also white (as it seems most blackout fabric is) which is a regulation according to the association in the complex as well. All in all, it's a pretty good achievement to me and at a budget friendly price to boot.
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