Step 1 Measure your windows: **Multiply** the width and height of each pane and add them up so you’ll know how many square feet of bubble wrap you need.

Step 2 Get your supplies: Scissors, Yard stick, Bubble wrap with large bubbles, Marker, Spray bottle with water with 1 drop of soap shaken up. If possible, use bubble wrap that is not perforated so it will have more inflated bubbles.

Step 3: Clean your windows. The solution with one drop of soap will even cut residue and clean windows. It’s actually one of the only things recommended to clean plexiglass as a side note.

Step 4 Roll the bubble wrap out and mark on one side where you are going to make the cuts to be ever so slightly smaller than the window pane. You don’t need to draw a line because you can just cut along the same place in the pattern of bubbles.

Step 5 Apply good water sprays over the entire strip of window. Then place the bubble wrap on the window. A lot of people have vinyl window clings and overall it’s not worth doing those. Some of them won’t stick and also it would effectively be a technique to make the vinyl windows clings come off easier.

Step 5 Think about leaving the windows blinds open. The majority of the sunlight that would come through the windows and bubble wrap would be reflected off of the white blinds and back through the window. You are going to want to leave the blinds raised or open, and open any curtains with lighter backs. The bubble wrap creates a good privacy shade, but in some rooms if you don’t want to do that you can hang a dark fabric behind the curtains.