Please help befor this causes me and DP to split leaving out baby daughter with only one parent!
DD's bedroom (and our bedroom) face onto the street - we're in a GF flat.
Both bedrooms have voile roman blinds for privacy plus I think they look quite nice. Other houses in the street have nets, venetian blinds, and some have that film stuck to the window which we tried but I hated - made me feel I was in a mental institution.
Anyway DD also has a beautiful roller blind, lovingly made by me while heavily pregnant. It is a lovely dinosaur fabric and is about 2m x 2m, so big and fairly heavy. The only problem is the material is pretty see through - we didn't think at all when we chose it based on the awesome pattern.
So basically these two layers do a rubbish job of blocking any light out, and we're about to move her into her own room (HURRAH) but she'll be waking up at 4am (boo) unless we do something about it.
I don't want to get rid of the dinosaur blind because I love it, I think DD loves it, and the material alone was over £100, plus the blind kit and all my blood sweat and tears, I can't bear to throw that away after less than 6 months. We don't want to get rid of the voile as it gives us great privacy, both for DD and also for me doing endless breastfeeding in there.
So what can we do? We don't want black-out per se but I'll use that as a shorthand to mean 'something a bit darker than completely translucent'
Options I've thought of are:
- somehow make the dino blind opaque - are there sprays we could spray on the back of it to add a black-out layer?! I think sewing a black-out lining on would break the blind and make it far too heavy.
- add a third blind in, probably between the voile and dinosaurs. But I'm not sure there's enough space to fit them in, plus DP thinks this would look like a dodgy fudge job. Wonder why?!
- I'm out - someone please help!!
Thanks in advance