Best Shades for Bedrooms
Light-filtering vs blackout, and how to keep a bedroom from feeling like a hotel cave.
If you sleep past sunrise
Buy blackout or room-darkening, and prefer outside mount so the fabric covers the casing. Inside-mount blackout still leaks at the edges.
If you like morning light
Light-filtering bamboo or a linen-look Roman is enough. You can always add curtains later; you cannot add a view once blackout is up.