Temporary curtains/blinds

[Aliceclara]

Anyone any tips/ideas for making a new house feel cosy while we wait for our curtains to be made? They will be about 12 weeks and the evenings will be dark by then. I've bought some blackout fabric, Velcro tape and gorilla glue for the bedrooms but what can I do about the living room? It gets quite expensive too as black out fabric is at least £5 per metre - a lot for something that's temporary! I've no curtain poles or any fittings as the decorator took them all down and filled the holes ready for the new fittings. Feels very exposed - help!

Try temporary pleated paper blinds. Lots of them on Amazon. We used them for several months while deciding on curtains and the blackout ones were surprising good for bedrooms. You can cut them to size and they have a sticky strip at the top to fix them to your window frame - super sticky and doesn’t leave any residue when you take them down.

Also look pretty good from outside. Our neighbours thought they were proper blinds!

IKEA do the paper blinds. They're super cheap.

I put nails in all along the top of the window about 6-8" apart, then attached safety pins along the top of a spare duvet cover and simply hooked the (closed) safety pin on to the nails.

So easy to do and no spend. (any duvet cover/sheet/cheap decorators sheet etc would work). Easy to get on and off. Afterwards I didn't even bother filling the nail holes in because they were so tiny (I used pin nails, not great big heavy duty ones).

@Breadstick25 @careerchangeperhaps @Rosesviolets @
Great tips, thank you 🙏🏻 😊

Charity shop curtains

I saw on here some people cleverly used cardboard from their packing boxes for temporary window coverings, so that's what we are going to try. We are not going to order blinds until after we've moved into our new build.

@Ladyrattles Funnily enough that's what I've ended up doing! Not very classy looking but with no curtain poles etc my options are limited!

I'm glad it works. I was thinking I'd stick wrapping paper on the cardboard if it looked too bad. DH thinks I'm crackers lol