No window treatments are going to give "total darkness" Anyone who sells you something and says it will is a liar. Even the best blackout shades installed with side channels will block (maybe) 90% of the light coming in a window. Call a local professional to come out to your home with samples to look at. Best options will probably be a double-cell honeycomb shade or a roller shade.

Thanks a mil! That's the thing about new colour. It does take some getting used to. However I had my babies room, a spare room and the inside of my front door painted at the same time last week and love all of the colours chosen but this one I just can't look at. It turned out to be more of a minty green than the colour samples on the wall. One of the fabrics below are being make up in a footstool and I think it may be overkill with too much colour. I wanted the coushions and footstool to pop as those are the things you spend the most amount of money on rather than the paint. In saying that. The cost of the paint was expensive and also paying someone to do it. Now to do it all over again is not ideal.:(. i took the cushions and fabric into one of my other rooms to see what it looked like against a more neutral background and felt it looked a little better. See pics below. Any other paint suggestions are much appreciated.

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Lining and interlining the silk roman shades would be better. Silk is fragile and attaching rings to unlined silk romans is not advised for that reason. Also, most shades look better on an inside the casing mount. However, you can do it your way as well if the silk is a sturdy variety. Assuming you'll keep them both lowered to same level and your view from outdoors will be the roller shade.