Should I invest in Blackout Blinds?

Last month I wrote a post about how I am decorating the Boys room and specifically how I was aiming at making it fun, engaging, educational and a real space for both of the boys to enjoy being in.

After a lot of research I decided on a chalkboard wall, a cleverly designed tree bookshelf and a superhero inspired wallpaper design on the opposite wall.

I am also going to convert the large cupboard into a reading corner with two comfy beanbags to sit, relax and read on.

This was all meant to be an additional present for William’s7th Birthday and after running the idea past him and then James they both are keen to get this started as soon as possible.

So there I am buying Marvel Avengers Wallpaper and it dawned on me that I should really get some curtains to match!

When we first moved in I purchased some white floral curtains quite cheaply and thought “they will do for the time being and with winter coming it will be dark and the white won’t make a difference”

This has been true up to now. The Boys haven’t questioned the curtains or the design on them and they haven’t been getting up at the crack of dawn to wake me up and start the day; the curtains clearly worked.

So I realised that I needed to do a curtain upgrade but every style I looked at seemed to be quite thin and this left me thinking that it probably wouldn’t matter about the thickness and the Boys are well settled within a routine so it shouldn’t matter. Thinking that it was best to leave it I left the store and promised I would investigate further and get the curtains another day.

I am so relieved that I didn’t buy them!

The following day at 5.30 am James slowly and quietly sneaks into my room and asks if it is time to get up. Of course it wasn’t time to get up! It’s 5.30am child!

Well here is me rather groggy and tired trying to explain that it was too early and James, thanks to the curtesy of the film Frozen, says “I can’t the sky’s awake so I’m awake!” *sigh*

This then made me wonder, is it worth investing in blackout blinds?

Does anyone else have them?

All the curtains that I have found seem to fairly thin and would need a fabric attachment to block out the sun creeping in, so my next thought was blinds.

I obviously don’t want them to sneak an extra hour in bed but with spring and then summer approaching (come on it was only Christmas yesterday, how is it March already?) that I am sure James’ sleep patterns will be knocked right out with longer days of sunshine.

In searching I have found that there either seems to be just coloured blinds from Ikea or a distinct lack of child friendly blinds.

I did find a good selection of roof windows from the company VELUX Roofblinds where apart from a selection of colours they also offered a varied Disney collection which looked fun.

Is it normal then to think that I haven’t started decoration the room until I have resolved this issue? I just don’t want to finish it and find that nothing works or matches. Or should I consider a slightly different design that would include a nice designed and suited blind to help?

Home Decoration isn’t really my thing so any help would be greatly appreciated!