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If you’ve been living without blackout shades in your bedroom, you might just be missing out on a truly wonderful night’s sleep.
That’s because darkness is sleep’s greatest friend—just as light is the enemy of sleep. Darkness is so important to optimal sleep that researchers are finding that even the tiny lights on our chargers and other electronic devices can affect the quality of our sleep. If we’re this sensitive to light, then the light that streams into the room during the predawn hours must be quite a bit more disruptive to our sleep.
If you sleep in a room where the predawn light is illuminating the room every morning, you’re probably losing sleep quality if not actual sleep.
Why Settle for Inferior Light Control?
If extreme darkness is ideal for sleep, why do we settle for less? The first reason is that most people don’t understand the importance of darkness to quality sleep. Research has demonstrated the importance of darkness for quality sleep, but the message hasn’t trickled down to the public.
Another reason people settle for window treatments that don’t effectively block the light is that they think blackout shades are expensive, even though this isn’t true: blackout fabrics generally cost just a little more than room-darkening or sheer fabrics.
But the biggest reason people settle for inferior light control is that they don’t believe they’re losing sleep. After all, they’ve been sleeping with their old blinds or thin curtains for years and they’re still alive and breathing when morning comes. They’ve gotten used to sleeping badly. Sleeping badly is their norm.
Experience Blackout Shades for Yourself
If you’ve been living with inadequate light control in your bedroom, blackout shades can have a profound impact on your sleep. And with better sleep, you get better concentration, a healthier metabolism, more energy, better recall, and many more benefits—which makes sense considering how important sleep has been shown to be.
Many Ways to Get a Dark, Dark Bedroom
There are a number of ways to achieve a very dark room. Arguably the best way is combining a blackout shade with a blackout drapery. For example, a blackout cellular shade with light-blocking side channels combined with blackout drapes can create an incredibly dark sleeping environment.
But for many of us, this is maybe a little extreme. You can also achieve a dark, dark room with just one of the following products from Graber:
- Blackout cellular shades
- Blackout roller shades
- Blackout drapery
- Natural shades with a blackout lining
- Pleated shades with a blackout lining
If for some reason you desire an even darker room, you can always add a blackout drapery over the shade.
People spend a lot of money on beds, therapy, supplements, sound machines, and other devices in an effort to sleep better. But if you haven’t created an environment conducive to sleep—a dark, dark room—then you’ll have a hard time achieving our goal of a good night’s sleep.
So, if you feel like you’re not getting enough sleep or are waking up early, there’s a very good chance blackout shades will help.
Explore all the Graber shade options now and contact a Graber Design Expert.
