One of the joys of summer is sunshine, but sometimes summer delivers to much of a good thing. In midsummer the hours of sunlight may intrude into sleep time for you and other family members. It is for this reason that roller blinds, Roman blinds and Venetian blinds can be the difference between being alert and being sleep deprived.
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One of the joys of summer is sunshine, but sometimes
summer delivers to much of a good thing. In midsummer the hours of sunlight may
intrude into sleep time for you and other family members. It is for this reason
that roller blinds, Roman blinds and Venetian blinds can be the difference
between being alert and being sleep deprived.
As human beings, we are by nature programmed to sleep during times of darkness
and engage in activities during the daylight hours. For most of human history
people kept to that pattern until the demands of agriculture made it necessary
to get up in the dark to feed animals and make the required preparations for
being in the fields at dawn. But even then bedtime pretty much coincided with
that of the chickens.
Modern life doesn’t always allow us to follow natures plan for our sleep cycle.
Often the midsummer morning sun intrudes into the bedroom before we have had
our full eight hours while at other times the sun hasn’t gone below the horizon
when we must go to bed. In today's world the hours of sunlight and the hours of
our work life do not always go hand and hand.
The answer is not to try and force ourselves to sleep in sunlight or to try
finding a work schedule that meets the sun’s changing schedule but instead to
make our own artificial night. Perhaps, the easiest way to achieve this would
be to paint over the window panes, but a much more aesthetically pleasing
alternative would be window blinds combined with curtains.
Roller blinds are
lengths of material rolled on a rod containing an interior spring. The blind
can be pulled down when required and will retreat when given a sharp, quick
pull. How adequately they will block sunlight will depend on how well they fit
the windows and the density of the material.
Venetian
blinds consist of a series of horizontal slats made of wood, metal or vinyl
that can slightly overlap when the slats are turned parallel with the window.
These blinds are unique in that they can regulate the amount of light in a room
by not only being raised and lowered but also by the degree to which the slats
are slanted.
Roman
blinds are a hybrid of roller and Venetian blinds; they are made of
material with slates sown into the material at intervals. Roman blinds fold as
they are raised instead of rolling onto a rod.
Effective blackout blinds can be a simple solution to the annual problem of
sunlight intruding upon sleeping hours as well as a year around solution to
those who work third shift. For a small investment you can give your body what
it wants: darkness in which to repair and replenish itself.
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