Buying guide
How to choose the right blinds
With so many styles to choose from, the best way to narrow it down is to think about the room, how much light you want, and the shape of the window. Here’s how we help customers decide.
Start with the room
For bedrooms and nurseries, darkness matters most. Blackout roller blinds and Roman blinds with a blackout lining block light through the fabric, and blind screens seal the edges for total darkness.
In kitchens and bathrooms, choose something that copes with steam and wipes clean: faux-wood or aluminium venetian blinds, or roller blinds in a moisture-resistant fabric. For living rooms, Roman blinds, day & night blinds and triple shade blinds give a softer, more styled finish.
Think about light and privacy
Blackout fabrics stop light coming through the blind, dimout fabrics take the glare off a sunny room, and light-filtering fabrics keep a room bright while stopping people seeing straight in.
If you want privacy in the day without losing daylight, especially in street-facing rooms, day & night blinds are hard to beat. For the most precise control, venetian blinds tilt to angle light exactly where you want it.
Match the blind to the window
For uPVC windows and doors, especially tilt-and-turn windows and French doors, perfect fit blinds clip into the frame with no drilling and move with the window when you open it. For a more solid finish, perfect fit shutters fit in exactly the same way.
Patio and sliding doors suit vertical blinds or Allusion blinds, which draw fully to one side. In bay windows, we usually fit a blind to each section so each one works on its own.
Measured, made and fitted for you
You don’t need to measure anything. At your free home visit we bring the samples, measure every window and give you a clear price on the day. Most blinds are ready to fit around two weeks later, fitted by our own team and covered by our 5-year guarantee.
Want to see them first? Our Burscough showroom has a full wall of blinds on display, from rollers and venetians to shutters.
