We get the harsh afternoon sun hit our bedroom every day during summer so to stop the room heating up to much I installed some Semi permanent Shade cloth blinds... All bits, except for the Shade cloth, are from fly screens we have saved from the tip... 
1st a bit of fly screen "track" was screwed into place at the top & bottom of each window making sure that the track on each all 3 windows was level... 
To stop little beasties from making nests in the track bits of the plastic right angle screen joiner were inserted to block the ends... These were made by cutting the plastic joiners curved ends off... Prettier ends could of been made but I find these fill the gap nice & snugly...The Shade cloth is a piece of 90% (block out) that we purchased from the scraps box at Bunnings for about ½ the retail price... Was a while ago so forget how much exactly... I found the best way to cut it to stop it fraying is to use a hot Soldering Iron as it fuses the fibres together... Probably best to do outside as I think the fumes would be rather toxic...
The shade cloth is held in place just using the normal fly screen "spline"... It makes it easier to take the cloth out during winter to allow for the afternoon sun to warm up our bedroom then putting it back in place for Summer...
HTH
Have a great one all.....
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