Help - moving into house with no shades/blinds in bedrooms

[Anonymous]

Maybe order some window frosting contact paper from Amazon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't stick the temporary blinds to drywall, FYI. They won't come off without taking a piece of the wall. Not sure how well they come off the window frames themselves, I always have bad luck with stuff like that.

I would put up sheets on little nails, for privacy, and sleep in sleeping masks for darkness.

My temps were left on for a long time and did remove paint BUT in the exact place where the blinds got put up so not an issue.

[Anonymous]

Can you get into the house to measure the windows before closing? If so, you could order custom blackout blinds from Selectblinds.com or blinds.com and install them the day you move in (it doesn't take long). In my experience they usually ship within a few days of ordering.

[Anonymous]

If there is standard size then Amazon can get you some prime for less than 100 bucks a window.

[Anonymous]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XA4SAC8?ref=nb_sb_ss_w_as-reorder-t1_k0_1_12&=&crid=2U8C3RBK6Q1X1&sprefix=paper%2Bshades&th=1

You can measure the width and cut to fit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to do something temporary recently. The easiest was to buy some plain shower curtains at WM for $10. and tap in tiny nails above the window frame. Next push the shower curtain holes (where the rings would go) onto the nails. I only need 4 nails per window to make it secure. Super easy, cheap, and if you get the blue ones they block nearly all the light. Plus you can tie them back with a ribbon during the day.

These seems way harder and more expensive than the temporary paper blinds.

[Anonymous]

Black sheets. Tack them up. Just like college.

[Anonymous]

IKEA

[Anonymous]

Sheets and tape

[Anonymous]

Home Depot or Walmart. Get tension rods and cheap curtains. Blackout or not.

[Anonymous]

Just get some basic curtains from target or wherever. You don't just want blinds anyway- curtains make a room look more pulled together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At Home Depot/Lowes you can get, what they call, "temporary paper blinds." They actually are thick and could be uses permanently if there are some windows where aesthetics don't matter, or at least until you get something else. They are very effective for black-out. They stick to the top of the window casing, no hardware.

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