Cut a piece of cardboard or use an extra wide vertical blind and lay it on top of the drape rod.
How to block light from window above door.
All it took was a quick wipe over of the window and frame measure up then cut the plastic to size using the square grid on the back of the paper as a guide to ensure straight lines.
A quick inexpensive and effective solution to blocking sunlight from arch windows is to paint the glass.
If your exterior doors are paned consider adorning them with a single drapery panel on the hinged side.
This allows the shade to overlap the window and eliminates the light gaps.
Dark colored acrylic paint applied to a clean window surface will block the light and can.
6 use cardboard or a large vertical blind to block light at top of window.
Another way to get around light gaps is to order your blinds or shades as and outside mount.
The best window blackout solution is not a curtain.
Indow inserts completely blackout windows.
We created this window blackout solution to block 100 of light from windows.
By laying the cardboard or blind on top of the drape rod it will block light from coming up and out of the top of your bedroom window.
If the one sided look doesn t fit your space however simply hang another panel on the other side leaving room for the door to open and close without restriction.
When you want more privacy simply pull the panel completely across.
We used black initially but i then changed it to white.
Outside mount means the window treatment is mounted on the wall above or outside the window frame.