As an Hispanic expat, I’m used to sleep with no light at all. Generally, Hispanic countries use [this kind](https://cortinasroggero.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cortinas-roggero-aluminio-2.jpg) of wooden blinds installed inside the wall, that won’t let any light come through.
When I arrived here, I had only found blackout curtains. I bought them but too much light comes in anyway in the morning (from the sides and top of the window). Now that spring has arrived, the sun it’s starting to rise earlier and I wake up every day at 6:40 am. It’s so annoying!!
Is there a better solution? Any other Hispanic expats here with the same issue? 😅
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We usually have these. You must have rented one of the few buildings that doesn’t.
Of course they exist.
They do exist, but since they have to be installed it would be the responsibility of the owner of the building to install them (so they probably won’t). You could look for a Plissee, they exist in different levels of shading.
I always assumed that every German proper house have them, and then I moved to an other Bundesland. Here they seems don’t to exist.
So you can find such blinds in germany, but it’s regional and not national wide.
Get better, bigger and thicker curtains for your windows if you don’t want any light in your house.
The German word for what you’re looking for is “Rollladen”, and they are indeed very common, although not universal. My apartment had them only on one side when I moved in, and the landlord paid for having them installed on the other side as well after a few years.
Another reason you might not have them is Denkmalschutz. One place where I lived only had them on one side of the building because they weren’t allowed to have them on the side that faced the street.