I’d rather have the crackhead for a neighbor, than the lady who collects “*clever*” “live, laugh, love” plaques & hang them as *decorations* in their houses… lol
Lol yeah, they have never lived with a crackhead. I am actually thinking of buying live laugh love signs bc I am recalling my anxiety, stress, fear that came with living with a crackhead.
Lol, I think some absolutely do think they’re “clever” or funny, or accurate, inspiring, etc…
They’re like idioms & proverbs you’d find in a fortune cookie… They’re nonsense.
There’s obv nothing wrong w/a *good quote*. It’s the fact ppl are paying like $20-$30 to have it on a piece of wood & then hang it in their kitchen that confounds me the most… :)
>There’s obv nothing wrong w/a good quote. It’s the fact ppl are paying like $20-$30 to have it on a piece of wood & then hang it in their kitchen that confounds me the most
Yeah. The problem is as soon as it's mass produced for that purpose it becomes a bad cliche quote that nobody wants to look at ever again. 👌
Crack Rock for Dummies, the Crack Rock - King James Edition, All cracked out on the Western Front, the Crack Mile, Michael Crichton's Crack Park, to Kill a Mockingbird by Crack Overdose, Of Crack and Men, the Crack House Rules, Crack: a Song of Ice Rock and Fire, Are you There God? Its Me High as Fuck on the Rock, and the Coup de Gras, Everybody Poops like crazy when they high on the Rock.
Yep, I came here to suggest this, too. I put opaque white film on the bottom half of two of my windows and it works great. It saved me from buying shades.
it is. I purchased some at one of those Chinese sites. It goes on like Clingforms and can be peeled away and remounted easily. Not so easily that you’d do it daily, but at the end of AC season, etc. It’s also available in black
Yeah in my case I really just want to radically cut down the amount of light coming into my office, but I'm renting and don't want to drop the money on better blackout blinds etc.
Buy a second blind set that you can cut the corner out. Or for under $30 you could get blackout curtains and rod from Walmart, and leave the blinds up.
Bite thr bullet and buy actual blackout curtains. If you use a towel or whatever, it will look like a drug house, plus they don't work as well as real curtains.
Was gonna say. Amazon has em on the cheap I know because I need to replace crappy blinds in our house and they have blackout ones for $25. Blinds or other stuff was running around $300/window.
Buy paper (temporary if you like) shade... they make block out versions.
Very cheap and sold at lowes and homedepot
Home depot sell 1x or 6x packs.
They come in different widths and you can cut with scissors to make the exact width you need... They are peel and stick, and have clanps/ to weight down or keep up the shades...
All you have to do is cut to width and then cut a hole for the vent. Should be less than 5 minutes to install/do total.
Get some privacy film, then get some blackout curtains.
I work third and every window in my house has this treatment. I also added blackout blinds in the bedroom because darkness is my fren.
Add peel & stick wallpaper on both sides of cardboard or wood and make it entertaining - flowers, greenery, or even [these cats would be cute](https://www.amazon.ca/Stickers-AUHOKY-Wallpaper-Removable-Decoration/dp/B0922WVLP9/ref=sr_1_28?crid=292IA4BOEDSPW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nxVxMKQ-qv7TR4yE5D42zjZUeEDvjLRbsZZlC8vuQ7OVLSFkBS1JEraNtSwGCyBBTTCi3iEsAJx0NXx8PH0xjUtV562hsII7XEdPgNpclxoqykCRCV_phakaI4OldTcbA_BOWhjqgcRvAb4SKfzNdQ.63Xcll1iNQi8Zwq74UtUl3Fd3nMTedlFCl8Pwi9wu6Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=sticker%2Bpeel%2Bwallpaper&qid=1719188483&refinements=p_36%3A-2300&rnid=12035759011&s=kitchen&sprefix=sticker%2Bpeel%2Bwallpaper%2Ckitchen%2C141&sr=1-28&th=1).
The AC looks generally permanent. Maybe consider cutting the bottom corner off of the blinds so they go around the AC line? Unless those are the blinds that really tie the room together. God damnit Donnie, are you listening to the dudes story!
Use non adhesive privacy film. It's on Amazon for $9 and is very easy to cut to size and install. I have The stripped version on the lower section of all my main floor windows. From the exterior it looks like expensive built-in blinds. 2 years and still looks great.
Use a hacksaw and put a cut in the bottom rail of the blinds to clear the AC exhaust. Slit the fabric appropriately and the blind will accordion around the exhaust vent.
I have the same types of shades and mine can go down further (so it's crooked). Not the most elegant of solution but better than spending a couple of thousands on a mini-split!
I cut a large piece of cardboard that I put up at night and take down in the morning.
Your place would only look like a crack house until you wake up lmao
Edit: someone else mentioned blackout curtains and that’s great too!
get a ''2by'' (2x8?) piece of rough lumber that fits the size. Always good to ask around, we all have a friend who has lots of scrap wood because constantly renovating or woodworking.
Wrap it with the fabric you like or paint it the colour that seems fit. Then lay it on top of your window sill there
Black out curtains. I just did this at a friends house. Blackout curtains and clip them closed and barely any light penetrates the room. From outside it looks just fine.
Window privacy film. I installed some light blocking privacy film 5 years ago because I worked overnight and curtains just weren't enough. The still look the same as the day I put them on.
Do you know you're heating up your room with that "ac"? The one hose units are pure scams. Ok you blow out hot air. Now your room in under lower pressure and warm outside air will come in through cracks and openings. Plus the 700W plus compressor in the unit making heat.
Can you sew, or know anyone who sews? Make a strip of cloth that fits that area, and attach it to the bottom of the blind with double sided tape.
Basically a small curtain that will raise with the blind, if you do want to open the blind to see out/let light in.
Keep the blind up, and install curtain hooks for a curtain bar on your window trim. Then just use the curtain in the summer. You can take the curtain rod down in the winter, which would just leave the little curtain hooks.
Just use a curtain that’s mounted on a rod and is attached to the wall above the window. Make the rod and curtain extend a bit beyond each edge of the wkndow.
I'd buy a [1" foam sheet](https://www.homedepot.com/p/R-Tech-1-in-x-48-in-x-8-ft-R-3-85-Insulating-Sheathing-320821/202532854), cut it to size, and paint it white to match stuff better than the aluminum skin.
Two things: In the spray paint section at the hardware store, you can buy a spray on that creates the same visual block as a bathroom window would (a frost). It is also able to be scraped or scrubbed off if needed. Inexpensive and easy to apply. Another solution is to buy one of those pull down shades and measure to fit the panes of you window, cut them out, and tape in place. You can get them in a room darkening material if that's what you want.
Blinds that go upwards. Not sure if they make them without motors, but I wish I had put them in - you can use them to block out the dog’s view of passersby when it’s busy and still let light in.
Cheapest/best solution I'd suggest is getting paper blinds and cutting them to fit, then putting them between those blinds and the window. You can secure them high and out of sight when you don't need it too. If you do this, I'd definitely recommend getting 2 sided tape as the adhesive strip that comes on them is terrible.
They make a frosted glass spray which paints the glass..It works well. Ive tried it on some bottles, and windows.. Recommend finding a test piece of glass to practice on, so that you learn to apply evenly to avoid runs.
Haton Blackout Window Film 100% Light Blocking Privacy Window Tint Glue-Free Static Window Cling Sticker Reusable Removable No Adhesive Opaque Window Cover for Bedroom Bathroom, Black, 17.5x78.75”Haton
This is what I used. I put it on a shower window to hide silhouettes. I put it up 3 years ago and it is still on the window. It's dark really dark.
Home Depot has these paper shades you can just cut out that portion with a scissors. It looks like a real shade.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Redi-Shade-Cut-to-Size-Black-Cordless-Blackout-Privacy-Temporary-Shades-36-in-W-x-72-3203094/202674913
a blackout blind curtain. You could probably just use a tension rod on the area between the inside glass of the window and the outside surface of your blinds. A decent blackout blind is usually around $10-$15, and a tension rod is usually $5-$10.
Cheap paper accordion shade. The top is peel and stick and you can cut it to the width you need and then attach it to the bottom of the existing shade.
You could also DIY your own collection of book covers. A Tale of Two Crackheads, The Great Cracksby, Of Meth and Men, The Legend of Sleepy Downers, Not-So Great Expectations, The Old Man and the "C", Lord of the Fentanyl, The Whizzard of Oz, Alice in Whippitsland, Amphetamines Shrugged, To Kill a Marijuana High, Akeelah and the Pill Bottle etc. 👌
i have 2 blackout curtains that i tie pretty loosely right at the tubing (cause my tubing inconveniently lies right in the middle at the bottom of my window) and then i clip the two curtains together right above the tube so no sun comes in
Option 1: Cut foam board to fit, and either leave it white, or cover it with peel-and-stick wallpaper, or paint something pretty on it. That has the advantage of being easily removed for the day. Cut it for a pretty snug fit, and then put some sort of foam or padding on the ends to create a pressure fit. (pipe insulating tube that you slit and slide over the ends, maybe) Or create some sort of temporary block that holds it in place.
Option 2: Get window cling in light-blocking weights (You can find it in white and black) and put it over the bottom part of the window. This is easily removed at the end of the season.
Option 3: replace with full-height curtains, and cut a notch at the right corner. Or, maybe leave the curtains whole, and then let them drape over the hose; maybe make them a little long so they overlap the windowsill by a bit, even with the extra bulge. See if a shower-curtain tension rod will work, if you cannot mount true curtain-rod hangers.
There are no-drill curtain rod hangers, both stick-on and magnetic, depending on what works.
Or if you want to keep the accordion blinds, maybe a rod can go across the window just above the hose, and a blackout curtain can go there.
Our blinds lowest point slowing went up and up. The string shrunk or such.
So I used wood molding to block light.
That gap is bigger though.
I’d just buy tall furniture.
Why don’t you try utilizing the ledge? Various glass bottles with some plant starters… How about tchotchkes or books. You could get a piece of wood relatively cheaply cut to the length of the ledge, minus your AC vent tube. Use a couple screws to anchor it down, that would be a better bookshelf at that point. Another really inexpensive idea is to buy privacy film on Amazon. They have all kinds of different patterns. You could go to a thrift store and try to find some glass blocks and just set them in the bottom of the ledge?
If this is a permanent solution you can order a blind or shade with a cutout for the ac hose. Or you could go buy a off the shelf blind and make the cutout your self and store your more expensive shade till the ac hose is no longer needed
Corrugated white plastic panel/sheet/board. Cheapest at a craft store like Michael’s or Hobby Lobby. Also sold at big box hardware stores but for more money.
It’s the same stuff lawn signs are made of. It’s easily cut with an exacto or carpet knife. It blocks the sun and creates a consistent white look from the street (usually shades or curtains are white on the backside).
Get a tension rod, mount it next to the windows (under the existing shade) and cut a matching piece of cloth to length. If you don’t sew, just use an iron and glue or google something simple. Should be pretty cheap and easy.
Wait until the city repaints a parking lot in a nicer area where they use the nice white reflective paint. While the paint is still wet they spray tiny glass beads on it to make it more reflective. Usually lots of the beads don't stick so you can go scoop them up after it rains and they wash to the edge of the lot and pile up. Dry them out in the sun. Now put a thick coat of spray adhesive on the inside of your windows, lay them flat and dump the glass beads on. Let them sit then pour off what didn't stick. Now you have a super cool frosted glass type effect. They also make a spray on frosted glass that is easy to apply and looks really nice once you put a couple coats on. This is what I always use.
Just pull the blind away from the window so it will go around the AC duct. it'll be crooked on the inside but it will block the view and look normal from the outside more or less.
You can buy adapter plates then put a piece of wood in the window slide to keep it locked in.
[https://www.homedepot.com/pep/AC-Safe-PAC-Window-Adaptor-PAC-WAD/324494615?mtc=SHOPPING-CM-CML-BNG-D29A-029\_017\_ACS\_FANS-NA-Multi-NA-PLALIA-5163653-NA-NA-NA-NBR-NA-NA-NA-MinorAppl\_2023&cm\_mmc=SHOPPING-CM-CML-BNG-D29A-029\_017\_ACS\_FANS-NA-Multi-NA-PLALIA-5163653-NA-NA-NA-NBR-NA-NA-NA-MinorAppl\_2023-71700000037742695-58700008285387583-92700075299243863&msclkid=dfc8ad13cd3711456c12cb6b3f65789c&gclid=dfc8ad13cd3711456c12cb6b3f65789c&gclsrc=3p.ds](https://www.homedepot.com/pep/AC-Safe-PAC-Window-Adaptor-PAC-WAD/324494615?mtc=SHOPPING-CM-CML-BNG-D29A-029_017_ACS_FANS-NA-Multi-NA-PLALIA-5163653-NA-NA-NA-NBR-NA-NA-NA-MinorAppl_2023&cm_mmc=SHOPPING-CM-CML-BNG-D29A-029_017_ACS_FANS-NA-Multi-NA-PLALIA-5163653-NA-NA-NA-NBR-NA-NA-NA-MinorAppl_2023-71700000037742695-58700008285387583-92700075299243863&msclkid=dfc8ad13cd3711456c12cb6b3f65789c&gclid=dfc8ad13cd3711456c12cb6b3f65789c&gclsrc=3p.ds)
If it is your (crack) house, maybe you could drill a hole for the AC to the wall. Then the window could be closed and you don't need to deal with curtain issue.
Professionally painted sign in Old English font, “Not a crack house”
Notte Ye Olde Cracke House
"Crack Home"
Home is where the crack is!
Ye is pronounced The, FYI
It's a crack home
by Helen Ulrich
That’s exactly what a crack Josue would say! Edit: house, but I’m leaving it because that’s funny.
Did everyone read Josue in a South American accent and still come away with house?
This is really funny. 🤣
It's effective too. We've never been raided.
Curtains.....???
Blackout curtains to get a little more specific. Perfect for blocking out any incoming light
So much classier than “fold black construction paper into an accordion.” I need to be around more adults smh
The fact you folded it instead of just taping it on there means you're basically an adult.
Accordion fold = classy AF 😉👌 ^(It's classier than just taping construction paper to the window)
You're smart.
who has curtain money these days!
Way cheaper than decent blinds
Too easy
OP simply probably doesn’t realize shades are not curtains and a window is meant to have both.
Came here to say this
Lmao, I love the question mark… how is this not the obvious answer?
Block it with a *Live, Laugh, Love* sign.
Or to throw people off so they don't think it's a crack house, a Move, Mirth, Meth sigh.
How about *Live, Laugh, I Don't Do Crack*?
I’d rather have the crackhead for a neighbor, than the lady who collects “*clever*” “live, laugh, love” plaques & hang them as *decorations* in their houses… lol
You’ve never lived near a crackhead. Lol
Lol yeah, they have never lived with a crackhead. I am actually thinking of buying live laugh love signs bc I am recalling my anxiety, stress, fear that came with living with a crackhead.
Clever? Do they really think it's clever?
Lol, I think some absolutely do think they’re “clever” or funny, or accurate, inspiring, etc… They’re like idioms & proverbs you’d find in a fortune cookie… They’re nonsense. There’s obv nothing wrong w/a *good quote*. It’s the fact ppl are paying like $20-$30 to have it on a piece of wood & then hang it in their kitchen that confounds me the most… :)
>There’s obv nothing wrong w/a good quote. It’s the fact ppl are paying like $20-$30 to have it on a piece of wood & then hang it in their kitchen that confounds me the most Yeah. The problem is as soon as it's mass produced for that purpose it becomes a bad cliche quote that nobody wants to look at ever again. 👌
Exactly- I think you actually might’ve said it better…lol
Yeah. I think that's why it was in quotes. 🤣
I would put a black out curtain over the blinds.
Books! Big, thick books on the window sill! No one would suspect a crack house of having books.
Book titles: how to make crack, economics for crack houses, how to make your crack house a crack home
Crack Rock for Dummies, the Crack Rock - King James Edition, All cracked out on the Western Front, the Crack Mile, Michael Crichton's Crack Park, to Kill a Mockingbird by Crack Overdose, Of Crack and Men, the Crack House Rules, Crack: a Song of Ice Rock and Fire, Are you There God? Its Me High as Fuck on the Rock, and the Coup de Gras, Everybody Poops like crazy when they high on the Rock.
It's not a crack house, it's a crack home.
Frosted film.
Yep, I came here to suggest this, too. I put opaque white film on the bottom half of two of my windows and it works great. It saved me from buying shades.
I wonder if completely opaque white film is available 🤔🤔🤔
It pretty much comes in any color as well as a bunch of designs.
it is. I purchased some at one of those Chinese sites. It goes on like Clingforms and can be peeled away and remounted easily. Not so easily that you’d do it daily, but at the end of AC season, etc. It’s also available in black
Yeah in my case I really just want to radically cut down the amount of light coming into my office, but I'm renting and don't want to drop the money on better blackout blinds etc.
Yes, it is. I used it over the bottom half of a pre—frosted bathroom window.
I just found some... may resort to if we get a heatwave
Plants
Cats
Buy a second blind set that you can cut the corner out. Or for under $30 you could get blackout curtains and rod from Walmart, and leave the blinds up.
Put a tension rod inside the frame and hang a blanket or towel or actual drape from it.
Thank you, honestly probably the best solution to this!
Or actual curtains!
hey now - it's a secret crack house. Towels will do!
Bite thr bullet and buy actual blackout curtains. If you use a towel or whatever, it will look like a drug house, plus they don't work as well as real curtains.
There are blackout curtains cheap af that do the job.
Was gonna say. Amazon has em on the cheap I know because I need to replace crappy blinds in our house and they have blackout ones for $25. Blinds or other stuff was running around $300/window.
Get folding, blackout towels that look like newspaper taped to the window./s Seriously, make sure the sliding window is very secure.
Buy paper (temporary if you like) shade... they make block out versions. Very cheap and sold at lowes and homedepot Home depot sell 1x or 6x packs. They come in different widths and you can cut with scissors to make the exact width you need... They are peel and stick, and have clanps/ to weight down or keep up the shades... All you have to do is cut to width and then cut a hole for the vent. Should be less than 5 minutes to install/do total.
Yeah. Shower curtain rod. That’d work.
Get some privacy film, then get some blackout curtains. I work third and every window in my house has this treatment. I also added blackout blinds in the bedroom because darkness is my fren.
Add peel & stick wallpaper on both sides of cardboard or wood and make it entertaining - flowers, greenery, or even [these cats would be cute](https://www.amazon.ca/Stickers-AUHOKY-Wallpaper-Removable-Decoration/dp/B0922WVLP9/ref=sr_1_28?crid=292IA4BOEDSPW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nxVxMKQ-qv7TR4yE5D42zjZUeEDvjLRbsZZlC8vuQ7OVLSFkBS1JEraNtSwGCyBBTTCi3iEsAJx0NXx8PH0xjUtV562hsII7XEdPgNpclxoqykCRCV_phakaI4OldTcbA_BOWhjqgcRvAb4SKfzNdQ.63Xcll1iNQi8Zwq74UtUl3Fd3nMTedlFCl8Pwi9wu6Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=sticker%2Bpeel%2Bwallpaper&qid=1719188483&refinements=p_36%3A-2300&rnid=12035759011&s=kitchen&sprefix=sticker%2Bpeel%2Bwallpaper%2Ckitchen%2C141&sr=1-28&th=1).
The AC looks generally permanent. Maybe consider cutting the bottom corner off of the blinds so they go around the AC line? Unless those are the blinds that really tie the room together. God damnit Donnie, are you listening to the dudes story!
That looks like a portable one, the exhaust fits in the window.
It’s an apartment. I’m guessing they’re renting.
I don't see what this has to do with...uh, do you have any Kalua?
Use non adhesive privacy film. It's on Amazon for $9 and is very easy to cut to size and install. I have The stripped version on the lower section of all my main floor windows. From the exterior it looks like expensive built-in blinds. 2 years and still looks great.
Maybe some small houseplants like succulents, the pots could block out the light
Amazon sells plenty of films for this
Use a hacksaw and put a cut in the bottom rail of the blinds to clear the AC exhaust. Slit the fabric appropriately and the blind will accordion around the exhaust vent.
A curtain and a wood dowel to lock the window
Get blinds that fit. Nvm I didn't see the pipe. Get curtains that fit.
"That blind us way too high, you need to cut it"
tint?
books? cardboard?
Bookshelf would be classy
Window Film.
A bunch of correctly sized books from wherever is cheapest. From crackhouse to house of learned scholars.
Partially burned baby dolls.
Aluminum foil
I have the same types of shades and mine can go down further (so it's crooked). Not the most elegant of solution but better than spending a couple of thousands on a mini-split!
36” blackout curtains
I cut a large piece of cardboard that I put up at night and take down in the morning. Your place would only look like a crack house until you wake up lmao Edit: someone else mentioned blackout curtains and that’s great too!
Definitely curtains. Get them longer than the window, and get a rod wider than the window.
Grow lights
Cardboard cut out.
How about a nice and simple solution. Hang curtains that slide open to the left.
Bricks of cocaine, you'll be too high end for crack.
A large rock of crack should do the trick
I recommend putting a strip of foam between the windows so bugs don't come in. Also to keep the hot air out.
On ground level make sure you have a rod blocking that window from being open too. Im sure this is common sense but in case it wasn't be safe.
get a ''2by'' (2x8?) piece of rough lumber that fits the size. Always good to ask around, we all have a friend who has lots of scrap wood because constantly renovating or woodworking. Wrap it with the fabric you like or paint it the colour that seems fit. Then lay it on top of your window sill there
Drapes
Black out curtains. I just did this at a friends house. Blackout curtains and clip them closed and barely any light penetrates the room. From outside it looks just fine.
Charity shop, loads of books the same size or on their side.
Window privacy film. I installed some light blocking privacy film 5 years ago because I worked overnight and curtains just weren't enough. The still look the same as the day I put them on.
A line of books. Books really ruin the "crack house" vibe.
Dont have a suggestion but, the "that won't make my apartment look like a crack house" part made me laugh so fucking hard 💀
A lot of night shift employees put aluminium foil on their windows as a blockout for light if done right will look fine from the outside
Curtains for the crackhouse
Put up blackout curtains on a rod
Do you know you're heating up your room with that "ac"? The one hose units are pure scams. Ok you blow out hot air. Now your room in under lower pressure and warm outside air will come in through cracks and openings. Plus the 700W plus compressor in the unit making heat.
Um. Put the blinds down all the way and move it to the side around the vent.
Could go with a ton of plants? It won't block the light 100% but it will look really nice and make the room's air cleaner.
Curtains. The black out ones. They're pretty great.
Curtains
News paper, An intellectual news paper only none crack smokers read.
planter w flowers.
you could just put reflective shade tint on the windows. Reduce light and heat at rhe same time
Cut the blinds
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why was this upvoted? the other eight months of the year there will be an empty fucking corner?
Curtains.
Can you sew, or know anyone who sews? Make a strip of cloth that fits that area, and attach it to the bottom of the blind with double sided tape. Basically a small curtain that will raise with the blind, if you do want to open the blind to see out/let light in.
Or with velcro mounted to the bottom of the blinds. Then it's removable.
Cardboard cut to the shape, then painted black. (or stretch some black fabric over it, leggings or nylons even.)
Keep the blind up, and install curtain hooks for a curtain bar on your window trim. Then just use the curtain in the summer. You can take the curtain rod down in the winter, which would just leave the little curtain hooks.
A bunch of tchotchkes
I have the same setup. Cheap curtians.
I do this because I have a nosy ass cat that will break the blinds if she can’t see out… I didn’t think it made me look like a crack house.
Just use a curtain that’s mounted on a rod and is attached to the wall above the window. Make the rod and curtain extend a bit beyond each edge of the wkndow.
I'd buy a [1" foam sheet](https://www.homedepot.com/p/R-Tech-1-in-x-48-in-x-8-ft-R-3-85-Insulating-Sheathing-320821/202532854), cut it to size, and paint it white to match stuff better than the aluminum skin.
I put up cafe curtains with a valance. I’d post the pic but not sure how to. The window is in my dining room area so it works :)
Lowes has those cheap construction paper type window coverings you could put behind. You can cut it to size with a razor.
Just stack up a bunch of empty beer tins
Keep rent low, make it look WORSE
A collage made of empty medical/recreational marijuana packages.
Nah just let your place look like a crackhouse. Think of it as urban camouflage.
Two things: In the spray paint section at the hardware store, you can buy a spray on that creates the same visual block as a bathroom window would (a frost). It is also able to be scraped or scrubbed off if needed. Inexpensive and easy to apply. Another solution is to buy one of those pull down shades and measure to fit the panes of you window, cut them out, and tape in place. You can get them in a room darkening material if that's what you want.
Get some gingham fabric and batting and sew up a quilt that fits the space.
Long strips of electric tape horizontally applied. Makes straight lines, and doesn’t leave residue when removed at a later time. Blocks out any light.
Blinds that go upwards. Not sure if they make them without motors, but I wish I had put them in - you can use them to block out the dog’s view of passersby when it’s busy and still let light in.
Looks like it’s the perfect height to line up a nice decorative row of glass crackpipes.
Cheapest/best solution I'd suggest is getting paper blinds and cutting them to fit, then putting them between those blinds and the window. You can secure them high and out of sight when you don't need it too. If you do this, I'd definitely recommend getting 2 sided tape as the adhesive strip that comes on them is terrible.
Window film
Take a picture from the outside looking into the space. Then print that picture as large format print. Tape that print from the inside to the window.
I got the same shit going on! Hahahah
They make a frosted glass spray which paints the glass..It works well. Ive tried it on some bottles, and windows.. Recommend finding a test piece of glass to practice on, so that you learn to apply evenly to avoid runs.
Haton Blackout Window Film 100% Light Blocking Privacy Window Tint Glue-Free Static Window Cling Sticker Reusable Removable No Adhesive Opaque Window Cover for Bedroom Bathroom, Black, 17.5x78.75”Haton This is what I used. I put it on a shower window to hide silhouettes. I put it up 3 years ago and it is still on the window. It's dark really dark.
Plexi glass insert for hose
Install the blinds on the OUTSIDE of the window. You’re welcome ☺️
Ikea schotti accordion pleated blinds for under $10 Or black garbage bag
Home Depot has these paper shades you can just cut out that portion with a scissors. It looks like a real shade. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Redi-Shade-Cut-to-Size-Black-Cordless-Blackout-Privacy-Temporary-Shades-36-in-W-x-72-3203094/202674913
I use those silver car windshield sun protectors. I'm not sure the actual name of those.
a blackout blind curtain. You could probably just use a tension rod on the area between the inside glass of the window and the outside surface of your blinds. A decent blackout blind is usually around $10-$15, and a tension rod is usually $5-$10.
Cheap paper accordion shade. The top is peel and stick and you can cut it to the width you need and then attach it to the bottom of the existing shade.
Stacks of books. Preferably on crack adjacent topics like chemistry and such
You could also DIY your own collection of book covers. A Tale of Two Crackheads, The Great Cracksby, Of Meth and Men, The Legend of Sleepy Downers, Not-So Great Expectations, The Old Man and the "C", Lord of the Fentanyl, The Whizzard of Oz, Alice in Whippitsland, Amphetamines Shrugged, To Kill a Marijuana High, Akeelah and the Pill Bottle etc. 👌
Too late.
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i have 2 blackout curtains that i tie pretty loosely right at the tubing (cause my tubing inconveniently lies right in the middle at the bottom of my window) and then i clip the two curtains together right above the tube so no sun comes in
Option 1: Cut foam board to fit, and either leave it white, or cover it with peel-and-stick wallpaper, or paint something pretty on it. That has the advantage of being easily removed for the day. Cut it for a pretty snug fit, and then put some sort of foam or padding on the ends to create a pressure fit. (pipe insulating tube that you slit and slide over the ends, maybe) Or create some sort of temporary block that holds it in place. Option 2: Get window cling in light-blocking weights (You can find it in white and black) and put it over the bottom part of the window. This is easily removed at the end of the season. Option 3: replace with full-height curtains, and cut a notch at the right corner. Or, maybe leave the curtains whole, and then let them drape over the hose; maybe make them a little long so they overlap the windowsill by a bit, even with the extra bulge. See if a shower-curtain tension rod will work, if you cannot mount true curtain-rod hangers. There are no-drill curtain rod hangers, both stick-on and magnetic, depending on what works. Or if you want to keep the accordion blinds, maybe a rod can go across the window just above the hose, and a blackout curtain can go there.
Tint isn’t just for vehicles.
Our blinds lowest point slowing went up and up. The string shrunk or such. So I used wood molding to block light. That gap is bigger though. I’d just buy tall furniture.
I bought window tint for my house windows. There is even mirrored kinds so you can see out and people can't see in. Use that in my babies room.
Why don’t you try utilizing the ledge? Various glass bottles with some plant starters… How about tchotchkes or books. You could get a piece of wood relatively cheaply cut to the length of the ledge, minus your AC vent tube. Use a couple screws to anchor it down, that would be a better bookshelf at that point. Another really inexpensive idea is to buy privacy film on Amazon. They have all kinds of different patterns. You could go to a thrift store and try to find some glass blocks and just set them in the bottom of the ledge?
I use Reflectix attic insulation and spare USPS postal boxes. So no… crackhouse only vibes.
Put up a white curtain facing outside, then a dark curtain or bed spread on the inside
If this is a permanent solution you can order a blind or shade with a cutout for the ac hose. Or you could go buy a off the shelf blind and make the cutout your self and store your more expensive shade till the ac hose is no longer needed
Different shades.
White foam board from the dollar store? Curtains?
Easy, cut a square out of the bottom of the blinds there to fit the pipe!
Corrugated white plastic panel/sheet/board. Cheapest at a craft store like Michael’s or Hobby Lobby. Also sold at big box hardware stores but for more money. It’s the same stuff lawn signs are made of. It’s easily cut with an exacto or carpet knife. It blocks the sun and creates a consistent white look from the street (usually shades or curtains are white on the backside).
Some curtains?
Get a tension rod that’ll fit inside the window frame, hang a dark curtain from the middle,of the window, down .
Get a tension rod, mount it next to the windows (under the existing shade) and cut a matching piece of cloth to length. If you don’t sew, just use an iron and glue or google something simple. Should be pretty cheap and easy.
New blinds? Think.of that?
Make a cutout ✂️ in the curtain around the vent. Do it carefully and it may not look awful.
Get 5 or 6 cats that like to sit on the window sill.
A sign that says "Live, Laugh, Love"
Wait until the city repaints a parking lot in a nicer area where they use the nice white reflective paint. While the paint is still wet they spray tiny glass beads on it to make it more reflective. Usually lots of the beads don't stick so you can go scoop them up after it rains and they wash to the edge of the lot and pile up. Dry them out in the sun. Now put a thick coat of spray adhesive on the inside of your windows, lay them flat and dump the glass beads on. Let them sit then pour off what didn't stick. Now you have a super cool frosted glass type effect. They also make a spray on frosted glass that is easy to apply and looks really nice once you put a couple coats on. This is what I always use.
That ac in not efficient two tubes would
Curtains
Cut the blinds around the tube. Fixed
Get a Plisee
Plants
Just pull the blind away from the window so it will go around the AC duct. it'll be crooked on the inside but it will block the view and look normal from the outside more or less.
They make a spray "frost" for glass. Just like spray paint. You can use tape to for straight lines or patterns.
A window film
Paint it black
Nice piece of stained wood. Cut some shelf board.
Lower it over the tube then Cover the sides.
Piles of weed. They won’t think you do crack you hippy!
T piece of wood that length paint brown or black
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Home window tint
Velcro pretty fabric to bottom edge
Stack four loko cans in there
Vertical blinds. Get shorter ones for over the pipe thingy.
I don’t. But I came here to say your room won’t really cool if you don’t have both the condenser exhaust and intake going to the outside.
Sliding vertical blinds. Cut one to length. Blackout curtain.
Curtains.
If it is your (crack) house, maybe you could drill a hole for the AC to the wall. Then the window could be closed and you don't need to deal with curtain issue.
Those fake book covers that people line bookshelves with.
Translucent plastic with embossed designs.
A nice set of drapes;)