The Simplest Way to Hang Your Blackout Curtains - Step-by-Step Guide!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- We're helping you black out that bedroom with a step-by-step guide to hanging blackout curtains!
Darkness is a natural way to signal to your body that it’s time to rest and sleep. Some of us sleep during the day and can’t always rely on the night’s sky to help us know it’s time to sleep.
Enter, blackout curtains. Installing blackout curtains in your room will help darken it and allow your body to begin to relax and help you fall asleep and stay asleep - no matter what time it is.
Not sure how to get started? No problem, we’ll walk you through every step of the process and help you hang up your blackout curtains with a standard curtain rod in no time.
Don’t forget to stick around to the end for a list of our tips and tricks to make it even easier!
You can also see step-by-step instructions in a written post with hi-res photos here: www.mattressclarity.com/blog/...
0:00 Introduction
1:07- (Step 1) Gather All Your Materials
2:23- (Step 2) Unpack your Blackout Curtains
2:42 - (Step 3) Measure!
3:31- (Step 4) Begin Installing (several sub-steps included!)
4:51 - (Step 5) Place Curtain on Rod
5:10 (Step 6) - Hang Rod on Window
5:35 (Step 7) - Shut The Curtains and Rest
In just a few simple steps you’ll have your blackout curtains installed and darkening your bedroom so it’s easier to fall asleep!
Make sure you’ve gathered everything you need in advance, measure your window, read the instructions for your curtain rod and installation materials and arranged for help if you need it!
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We use blackout curtains throughout the whole house! They help not only with keeping the light out if we need to sleep during daytime hours, but they also help us with our heating and cooling costs by quite a bit. I have never seen a sleep site do a review on these before either, really good idea that you did one!
I work night shift🙄 i really need it
Ironically, she is showing the wrong types of curtains and rods. For truly blackout, it is preferable to get cloth curtains without large metal attachment hoops as they allow large gaps that light can pass through. Light is like water in that it will find it's way through any weak point or gap. ALSO, you want to have curtain rods that are curved at the ends. This wraps the cloth curtain around it and holds it more closely to the wall which is ideal.
Very good points. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for showing each step of the install. I prefer to sleep when its completely dark and these curtains would be helpful to get a good night sleep.
I love these blackout curtains to help with the spotlight and when I take a nap during the day it would help a lot
To keep house cooler during the summer and to block the sun when on the computer, watching tv, or napping during the day.
Lol, @ the takeout clips!
I'm disabled and stuck in bed. I'm living in a 5th wheel and the sun is always right in my eyes!!! I'm barely getting any sleep as it is so I sleep alot during the day. THESE WOULD BE A LIFESAVER!! =)
Been looking on how to make my room darker, thanks for the video! 🙌🙌
I have a projector in my bedroom and my old curtains were allowing too much ambient lights on my screen washing out the picture quality so i purchased some blackout curtains and it made a big difference. Great video, very helpful. Keep them coming
I think I am sold on black out curtains. Maybe not for use year round but definitely during the summer.
Yesssss i need blackout curtains 😫💓 also I’m glad y’all posted today lol yesterday was sad without yalls video 😂 anywayyyyy, this install seemed pretty easy! I appreciate the tips: drill a pilot hole, got it ☝🏽 extra screws, ask someone to help for the big curtain rod, and help secure it. 🖤🖤🖤 i want one so bad!
Thanks so much, we appreciate you!
Mattress Clarity y’all are the sweetest!!
Great video
new home owner. All windows I installed blackout curtains. I work swing shifts, and it keeps the house cool on these 90 degree days.
I have these and they work great having to work overnites
had to get some of these for my room because my blinds don't block anything and at 6 am it gets annoying needed to get these thx for the tutorial
got them to improve sleep. need to install them.
Liked and subscribed yall are great!
Aw thanks!!
My boyfriend and I are both night shifters. Blackout curtains are a treasured item.
I worked nights in the past, this would have been great!
I use blackout curtains to stop the reflection of the window on the tv and to add more of an atmosphere and to be able to sleep at any time during the day
Is it important to choose a rod anchor that's holding the rod as flush to the wall as possible? How do we choose the right one? I was considering the NoNo
you should also have a non contact electrical tester as well ( one that can find electrical wires behind the walls surface, drilling into a wire could be a shocking if not expensive experience )
Good call, thanks!
Very informative 😁
Thanks!
Thank you for the video. I'm allergic to the sun (long story) and we have an east facing room. I'm using the blackout curtains along our balcony door.
Glad it was helpful!
thank you for this video, i was looking for a head start on how to do it!!!
You can do it!
Got blackout curtains for our projector we installed in our living room for day time tv/gaming
i use them for better lighting control for youtube and zoom videos
Personally I hate the dark. But my kids like it totally dark, like their Dad did. So the guest room is to have black-out grommet curtains. (1955 house still has original draw curtain rods.) That room gets afternoon & evening light, not much morning sun. I hope to do it myself, but at 70 who knows. You suggested 5" from the top & 3" at the sides. Would that hold true with old draw rods? Will I be able to use these old style rods?
Keeps my house cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter
0:54 My bed is set next to my window so the morning quite literally hits me in the face. Would like to get dark covers so I can sleep lol
Dark room good
We could use black out curtains to keep the my bedroom cooler in the summertime.
I hit some as I only get to sleep in on the weekends. The sun wakes me up at 7 and I can never get back to sleep. I got some today and I’m so much happier.
I have a nieghbor with a bright bright front door light all the time! I have blackout curtains one side has a white linen side help !
Is it important to have a curtain rod that curves right to the wall so the blackout curtain actually makes a quarter turn to the wall for total blackness? I'm also wondering about light, like street lights, over the top of the curtain?
we installed to be a buffer for noise and cold/heat and to be able to nap during day
My security cameras are in the windows. The IR light window reflection was an easy fix by blocking the IR light on the camera with black tape, then adding an IR light remotely. But the problem I'm having now is inside light reflection on the window at night trips the motion sensors. I can build a black box to go around the cameras to block the light inside but I figure why not get the added noise abatement along with the thermal advantages a Blackout curtain offers! So really I need Blackout curtains to block light IN, not OUT. (Funny how that works. I've been going against stream since before I was born)!!! LOL
The room facing south east is mostly unshaded outside. Hopefully the blackout curtains will help keep out the heat.
I use blackout curtains in my bedroom to help block out the sun that comes through early every single morning, and it gets so annoying:)
My Blackout Curtains came in very handy while working the nightshift and sleeping in the morning.
I'm using them to block heat, live in Arizona, extremely hot, air con doesn't blow in my room.
What blackout curtains do you need a thicker rod
I starlight my room ceiling and hung rgb, I pretty much keep them on 24/7 now that I have the black out curtain. 😂
Should the vert edge of the curtain face out or in?
Ahhh
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My bedroom window faces east so in the morning it’s really bright and my girlfriends not a morning person so she said get blackout curtains for when she spends the night
do one for people less fortunate in the summer.
Got rgb bulbs for my room and it would be a waste to only use them at night
If you hit a stud, just don't use the anchors. It's better to screw directly into a stud then to anchor in drywall.
For migrain 😥😥
This is going to sound like I'm being critical, but I'm honestly just trying to help others do this right. You made a few mistakes (at least in my opinion).
I never mark directly onto a wall. I put masking tape on the wall and mark on the tape. After drilling the holes through the tape then it can be removed.
At 3:26 you drew the mark on the wall exactly where the screw DOESN'T go. The screw should go into the neck right above where you marked for the hole. Notice at 4:40, after the screw is installed at your location, the bracket has slipped down the neck leaving a 1/4-inch gap between the top of the bracket and where you made the pencil mark on top. It seems to be not critical for your installation, but it might be more important in other installations. For example it is the difference between full length curtains dragging on the ground or not dragging on the ground.
Also, and this is a nit, you put the curtains on the rod incorrectly. The correct way is to run the rod through the front of the curtain first, not the back as you did. These instructions are in the bag with the curtains. The difference is the curtain looks "closed" at the ends.
Thanks for the inspiration to put blackouts in my bedroom!!
👍👍
Because I sleep in
Great video thank you,
but at 3:36...ensure to run the drill in a clockwise direction when making the pilot hole, much easier going through and results with a better finish.
To enhance my bed rotting experience
Want it for my room so i can set the mood when my wife comes home to me
no glare on monitor
I used blackout curtains,plus the original curtains to blacken out my room.The blackout curtains didn't work alone
3:41 Your drill is in reverse. It's going backward.
You also need a level
Car lights
The only thing I wanted to know is not in the video. Do you butt or overlap the curtains.
They block the light good, but don’t do anything about the light leaking in the sides.
jjhendo they have specific black out curtain rods that round the end corners. Check amazon
I work night shift
Migraines. I need room dark all the time.
Gift me with that drill please
That's not real blackout, heaps of light still pass through
Pause for breath...!!
Way to show not what the wall anchor is. You assume way too much for the novice.
She talks super fast. I had to slow it down to .75 speed to be able to pick up all the info.
Yes, it was annoying, hard to listen to.
Also, they're cheap
Uh, I've never done anything with tools at all, and listening to her high-speed explanation of how to do this wasn't helpful.
I like this video, but I don't like the use of tape measure, because it wastes time, and if your hand shifts a little, you end up with a small mistake on the location where you mark. I'd rather use a tool called the Rody Precision Corner to both save time, and also be precise.
Can I put the curtain with the Decorative panel on the outside of the window, that is the foam insides and still keep out heat or cool
@@joanncole649 Yeah, but make sure what you have is an insulated thermal blackout curtain.
You talk so fast during parts of this video, it was painful to listen to.
Having a baby