I hate the window shades!

Thanks Live2Camp!  I love the idea of black out fabric with tension rod inside the valance. Honestly if I would have thought to do that before removing my valances I probably would have. I am noticing all the mods with the shelf over the bed that rest on those valances and kicking myself. I might add them back one day. My husband stored them in the attic and I dare not ask him to retrieve them in the middle of summer lol. 

Outside of replacing our mattress after our 3rd outing, replacing the rear window curtain was our 2nd mod we did on our 177.  As others have done we installed a 2x cell cellular shade, it is easily held against the sloping back wall with a couple of plastic pins to hold it in place.  My wife took the curtain and made a valence out of it.  We have never had any issues with the stock window blinds since we picked up our pod in March 2011.  We did think of replacing them with the cellular shades but thought it may be a problem if we want air flow and privacy at the same time.