You may want to check with local hotels and find out where they get
their blackout drapes from. It's pretty dark in the room when those
drapes are closed.

Another option is to go to a fabric store with a drapery department and
ask them for blackout lining or blackout drapes. There are upholstery
stores as well that may carry a variety of drapery fabrics.

There are different thicknesses of fabric and different styles. Someone
mentioned foam-backed drapes and those would probably work to keep the
light out. If you go to a fabric store, you would have to figure out
how much fabric you would need to cover your windows and just buy
lengths of fabric and attach with drapery hooks or safety pins or
whatever works. Or, you could ask at the fabric store if they can
recommend someone to make the drapes for you, or if they could offer
suggestions for how to attach the fabric.

I bought some "room darkening" fabric a couple of years ago, but I
didn't buy enough of it, so it isn't doing that great of a job. I
bought it at a discount fabric store and used clip-rings to attach
it to my curtain rods.

Inez

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