We need RV advice! The kids have a huge skylight that they love, but we need to find a way to block the light when we're parked under lights (not a total coincidence that I'm posting this from a parking lot). Or when we're on the edge of a timezone change and it's still light at 10pm (like say western MI). And preferably something that doesn't involve sewing! :)
We can run wires and hang a curtain (that I'll totally have to beg someone to make) but I really don't want wires up there all the time and curtains drawn back. Ideally, I'd like something like those reflector deals people put in their windshields. Something that folds up and poof, opens up to the right shape. Does anything like that exist?! Something that suctions to the shape of the sticky uppy window? Like a giant sheet of tin foil, but less stupid. :)
It sticks up maybe a foot, so something needs to curve up. It could just go under it, even with the ceiling, but they'd lose a lot of head room that way. Here's Lizzy up there looking out of it and a view from the side for an idea of how it looks.
ANY IDEAS on how to cover this? (From the inside of course)
Thanks ahead of time!
We can run wires and hang a curtain (that I'll totally have to beg someone to make) but I really don't want wires up there all the time and curtains drawn back. Ideally, I'd like something like those reflector deals people put in their windshields. Something that folds up and poof, opens up to the right shape. Does anything like that exist?! Something that suctions to the shape of the sticky uppy window? Like a giant sheet of tin foil, but less stupid. :)
It sticks up maybe a foot, so something needs to curve up. It could just go under it, even with the ceiling, but they'd lose a lot of head room that way. Here's Lizzy up there looking out of it and a view from the side for an idea of how it looks.
ANY IDEAS on how to cover this? (From the inside of course)
Thanks ahead of time!
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Only problem would be to have get on roof an attach manually all the time.probably about six clips on long sides and four clips on the shorters ends....just a suggestion...this way nothing would block the view from the skylight with any other type of methods requiring housings to accomodate the aparatus involved....good luck Collie
Collie
Maybe use adhesive velcro to attach it? It would fold up teeny tiny and would be uber cheap so if it didn't work so what?
Curtains - I DID make these on the road for all 4 kids bunks, hemmed them all by using that therma-stuff and bought a cheap iron from WalMart (desperately miss the sewing machine for times like this!) to make it work. Spread a bathtowel on the table and used that for an ironing board - so it's definitely possible. I hemmed 4 large curtains in 3 hours so it really wasn't that bad, just boring! I would probably do something like that or even, for a not-so-pretty fix, use the black out material (you can get it from jo-anns), screw in hooks, eyelet the fabric (very easy to do with cropadile or other scrapbook tool!), we attached S hook with elastic - with a space that big, you could use eyelets on all corners plus one extra in the middle of each side.
I would not have been able to live with that much light above the kids beds for as long as you have - would have made a solution asap!
Good luck, Ali