Help Do any of you guys know how to make my room pitch black?

[StunningIntent]

Complete darkness is pretty therapeutic for me, when I was on vacation I had a nervous breakdown but luckily I had a dark room but it was noisey since there was a lot of people visiting. I find refuge in the dark its like it scratch the ancestral itch within me. But I'm back home now where there is silence but no darkness. I have two windows . Lmk which material is needed.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

You may search for cloth with thermal protection, then cover your windows with it and use gorilla tape to fix it.
If it is not 100% dark you may add 1 or 2 more layers.

This is just an idea.

 

[Andarna]

Roller blinds and blackout curtains won't be enough?

 

[westerly_merlin]

I have a blackout roller blind and blackout curtains and it gets pretty dark in my room. There is still a little light leakage but it is gark enough to sit and just exist.

 

[vitbar]

You can block windows by getting a board of wood larger than your window, covering one side with thick fabric, and screwing it tight over the window fabric side facing the outside.

Doors are best blocked with a heavy curtain. One of those draft excluder sausages can be used to hold it flush, if needed.

 

[woofwag]

Black construction paper taped up over every inch of window, then an extra blackout curtain if needed. You can get tension rods if you don't want to deal with nailing a whole rod into the wall. Put towels under your door to block out additional light from hallways. Pretty much perfect coverage with all that.

 

[fedup1982]

An even cheaper way works wonders. All you need is aluminium foil and insulation tape. Tape the foil to the window, with slightly overlapping sheets of the foil. It blocks out 99.99% of the light, you will literally not be able to see a singe thing in the room even with midday sun landing on the windows. Black insulating tape works best out of all the colours because it absorbs any leaking light. Just lay one vertical sheet of foil at a time, its easiest if you lay the sheeting in vertical stripes.

The only downsides of this method is people might wonder why you're taping aluminium foil to your windows, and its quite fragile so might tear if you have to open the windows. But its cheap and blocks out all the light very effectively

Insulation tape is good because it can be removed easily if necessary

 

[Keridwen]

Blackout curtains ! Or just an eye mask. I find an eye mask weirdly therapeutic, especially if its one with raised bits for the eyes so it's more comfortable
Blackout curtains ! Or just an eye mask. I find an eye mask weirdly therapeutic, especially if its one with raised bits for the eyes so it's more comfortable