ShiftShade - Sleep Better with The Non-Permanent Total Blackout Light Blocking Shade for Windows. Fits Windows UP to 38 Inches Wide by 72 Inches Tall.

I recently purchased 2 Shift Shades for my husband who works a rotating shift schedule. Previous to the purchase of this product we had our windows covered with a "honeycomb" blinds and double sided curtains. These blocked a considerable amount of light but did not render the room completely dark and we had to use tape and blankets to cover the edges of the windows where light still was able to sneak in. This set-up looked horrendous and every time my husbands shift changed we had to reconfigure the whole window set-up all over again. After much searching I decided to give Shift Shade a try and I was very pleased with my purchase, the room is completely dark! This product works so well that when you wake up you don't even know what time of day it is. Installation is also easy and quick As a side note, this is a great company with great customer service! We had a minor issue with one of the shades and I sent an email to the company on Sunday afternoon and received a reply almost immediately. They sent us a replacement shade on Monday which we received on Wednesday. That kind of customer service is almost unheard! I would recommend this product and this company to anyone.

When we built our house we wanted windows, windows, windows! We got them and all their lovely and wonderful light....only to have a bunch of kids who wake up the MOMENT the sun rises and refuse to go asleep when the sun is still shining. Explain a 7 pm bedtime in mid July when the sun stays up until 10 pm! In lieu of becoming one of those exhausted parents whose kids stay up all night and then wake up at the crack of dawn, we searched for window coverings. A designer suggested black out lining on our curtains. Yay, right? No, not yay. Blackout lining on curtains allows in so much light it's ridiculous, at least for my dark-craving kiddos. My next step? Ordering these babies. They were a cinch to install and block any and all light! It's so pitch black in my kids' rooms now that I regularly walk into walls after I have kissed them goodnight and turned off their bedside table light. THAT IS DARK, people. I can also vouch for their customer service department who helped resolve an issue I kept having keeping the bottom pole in place. They even offered to replace poles if I inadvertently cut them too short. Easy to order, great price, works fabulously, and easy to trouble shoot. There is not much else I can say!

This is my second Black out "shade" from ShiftShade. If you want a dark room, this is the ONLY product I've found that actually works. You can close this thing in the middle of the day in August in the midwest and it is dark as night in your room. I'm only giving it a 4 out of 5 because of the amount of work I had to put into making this a workable solution for my house. It is, in fact, NOT a shade. Not in the traditional sense. With the materials it comes with it is a permanent fixture and not retractable as you would imagine a "shade" to be. If you want to make it so that you can have the black out effect sometimes and be able to see out of your window other times, you have to come up with your own solution. Liking the ability to occasionally see out of my windows, I needed to retrofit this to make it work. I used 2 solutions. For the first I made a 2 inch open ended pleat at one end of the black out sheet to create a curtain-like opening. I did this by using Liquid Stitch because I didn't want to puncture the sheet and risk a tear in the future. Then I hung it on a curtain rod mounted to the inside of my window frame. When I want to use my window as a window, I pull the sheet aside and tie it back like a curtain. For a much wider window, I cut my long sheet in half and then used curtain clamp rings on an interior mounted curtain rod to attach to the window. This solution lets a little light in at the top, but was all I could do since I had to use the sheet horizontally in order to cover the space. This is a "me" and my retrofit issue, though, and not that of the material. These solutions allow me to have this wonderful black out option for my family who enjoy sleeping in coffin-like blackness and the beauty of sunshine when I want to see out of my windows. I would absolutely recommend this to anyone who needs a dark room to sleep. In fact, I am purchasing my third sheet now that I know how to tackle the "open window" issue.

Starting with the negative: installation is horrible. They really need to come up with a better way to install this fabric. Maybe they should contact companies that make blackout drapes and sell this technology to them so that it could be pre-sewn onto drapes. Anyhow, I didn't bother with the rods. I was prepared to be inventive with installing these since I had read many reviews. So, All I did was measure the window and cut it about 2 inches bigger; I then used push pins to install it. Another good idea would be to sew a pocket and use a tension rod to install it. I don't have a sewing machine or I would have probably done that. Another thing I wasn't happy about is that it says it covers a window that is 38x72, so I ordered two of these. I come to find out the seller includes extra fabric (which is really nice actually), but it would have been nice to know the exact dimensions of the fabric since people install it differently and in the end, I only needed one order of this to cover two windows. Okay, now for the positive: this stuff truly works. I have purchased blackout drapes two times in the past. The most recent blackout thermal drapes that my toddler & preschooler have do not help in the least bit. Both kids have east-facing windows, so when the sun comes up, their room is bright and hot. The morning after I installed these, I could immediately tell a difference in the temperature of their rooms. And their room is pitch black! I personally love that because it's easier for them to nap during the day as well. So, yes: this helps keep out the light and heat; I'm sure it'll also work to keep out some of the winter cold as well. Overall, I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for blackout drapes or shades.