Kids curtains with blackout lining.

[Mermaid2]

Any suggestions for shops selling ready made curtains for boys room please?

I had to put my black out curtains on to normal curtains myself (that tells you how easy it was because i am not very skilled in the needlework dept) I got them from a local fabric shop i think

Thanks Tessiebear, needlework is not my strong point either. I suppose I will just have to give it a go.

Mermaid2 - ours are from Mothercare. They sell ready made blackout linings which fasten on to curtains using curtain hooks. Otherwise John Lewis do ready meade black out blinds in various patterns.

Brill, muddaofsuburbia just what I am looking for. Like the idea of self fastening.

I made a blackout thing for dd's window in our last house. Got a big bit of blackout material and lots of sticky back velcro. Stuck the sticky side of the velcro round the window and stapled the other bit all the way round the material. Then just stuck it straight on and hey presto immediate blackout. Much better than curtains as no gaps.

Sadly her window in the new house is about 8ft tall and 5ft wide so can't do it. Curtains not as effective but they do.

John Lewis sells blackout lining if you decide to have a go yourself. Beware though, it's heavy stuff to work with!!

i just used separate blackout linings. It worked out cheaper and easier and that way you can wash the curtains separately and you have more choice of curtains.

have just moved house and as a temporary measure i've stuck 4 sheets of black card onto the window.

The great little trading company (gltc.com I think) sells denim coloured blackout curtains for boys and pink or lilac for girls.

I got Hilaries Blinds to do ours - excellent service, price and fit. £43 for a massive window.

CD... stapling the bloody velcro!!! genius!!! i have just this week spent 4 hours sewing the blimmin' stuff on.... i am soooooooooooooooooo peeved i didnt think of that!

WE just had a street stall fabric seller make up black out curtain liners for us -- complete with hooks to go into our existing curtains, although they would have made them up and sewn them into our existing curtains for about the same price. Only cost about £12 as I recall.

Warning re blackout curtains/linings - you'll find that they work when you first have them but the following year are not so effective. When you first put them up it makes a big difference, ie, it's darker in the room. However, the following year as the mornings get lighter then the room gets relatively lighter. Not as light as without b.o.lining but still lighter than the previous morning. Does that make sense??????? CD's idea sounds great if your windows are small enough. BTW, we have b.o. linings from Dunelm. Cheap to buy.

in our old house ds's room had wooden venetian blind (lovely but completely impractical) so we did what CD did and got a sheet of black out material, and stuck it to the window frame using velcro with sticky backing, and velcro with sew-on backing to make it stick (does that make sense). during the day we were able to draw up the black up 3/4 of the way up the window since we attached ties to it to secure it. in this new house i decided to try a black out roller blind with heavy curtains to make it more pleasing to the eye, but it just didn't cut the mustard - loads of light still came through. last w/end i re-did the whole thing old-style, took the blind down and covered the frame again with fresh black-out fabric, and used the fabric from the blind to make a cover for the window in baby's room (due July). coincidentally, i saw those mothercare hook-on black out curtains today, and thought they were a great idea, but you will still have light coming through if you don't have a pelmet i think.......ok now i'm starting to bore myself. hth

discordia, why is it that black out fabric doesn't work as well the following year- does the sun somehow thin it?

koo - just had a look at Great Little Trading Co, they look pretty good.

DH got a black out roller blind at B & Q. Not perfect, but together with heavy curtains does a pretty good job. Would have put the curtains on a less sticky-out pole if I was smart.

We have curtains we don't close and behind that a cream blackout roller blind from John Lewis

We also have some nice (and very thin) curtains with a blackout roller blind inside the window frame, it works great, during the day when is rolled you can't see them and they only costed £7 in IKEA, have also seen them in Dunhelm Mill for a similar price.

RIght, am prepared to try ANYTHING myself...