Made to Measure Roller Blinds

Which of your fabrics are suitable for Roller Blinds in children’s rooms?

The beauty of Roller Blinds is that the surface is flat, so children can really enjoy looking at the patterns and the scenes of the fabric designs. Vanessa can still remember the fabric in her bedroom when she was a little girl. Children are so observant and have time to gaze and daydream, so it is important to give them pictorial fabrics to feed their wonderful, creative imaginations. Children lie awake in bed more than we do and are eager to look around and absorb their surroundings.

Vanessa's eldest daughter, Rose, drew all the animals in our design Wild and Free design. Drawn during many visits to th  British Museum, she took inspiration from cave drawings and Etruscan cases. If that won’t feed the imagination of little ones I’m not sure what will! Also, Vanessa's younger daughter, Flora, drew the fun design for Bird Hop. Both designs are available in a range of stunning colours, from Saffron yellow, to Terracotta rust, Smoke blue, and many more.

By the Sea is a wonderful scene for gazing at, with people walking their dogs, sailing boats and lighthouses; Vanessa's husband drew these images after a weekend visit to Mousehole in Cornwall. These fabrics will grow with the children, but are not exclusively for ‘little people’ and you won’t have to change the blinds as they grow up.

These designs are printed on beautiful 100% Linen and come in lots of gorgeous colours.

Children's bedrooms and playrooms can look really wonderful with Made to Measure Roller Blinds that can brighten up and transform room or nursery.

If you simply cannot decide which is best between blinds or curtains in a child or baby’s room, then try using both. Doing so provides privacy, a chance to dress the window, and gives you a broader scope for design and colour options.

You can also choose to have blackout lining to discourage early morning waking.

Pretty Maids and Stockholm Stripe all coordinate beautifully with them, and work well as coordinates for a chair, cushion, lampshade, or bed head.

Pros for choosing Roller Blinds:

GREAT FOR INSIDE A RECESS – Roller Blinds are a great option if you want to install a blind inside a recess because they are really easy to fit, lightweight, practical, easily adjustable with beaded chains (or ivory cord), and visually very stylish.

PELMETS - if you have your blind inside a recess, you can choose to have a smart, perfectly pattern matched pelmet that covers the roll at the top revealing the reverse lining; this is approximately 11 cm deep. It has revolutionised the use of Roller Blinds, making them much more attractive and usable in all rooms of a house!

MAXIMUM LIGHT – if you want to allow in as much natural light as possible, Roller Blinds may be the better option over Roman Blinds. With Roller Blinds, the fabric rolls up at the top of your window, taking up about 9 cm of space.

CENTRAL PULL – with a Roller Blind you can have a centre pull which can be handy on a window behind the kitchen sink. This comes with an ivory coloured cord and wooden acorn.

LOWER MAINTENANCE – once you have pulled up a Roman Blind you sometimes have to handle the folds as they can get caught in the cords, you don’t have this problem with Roller Blinds. It is just one piece of fabric that is adjusted with either a continuous beaded chain to either the left or right hand side of the blind, or as previously mentioned, a centre pull.

TREATMENT OPTIONS - We offer three different finishings on our Roller Blinds: Laminate, Blackout, and Processed. The laminated backing is a lining bonded onto the face of the fabric (no lamination takes place to the face fabric). Blackout is an off-white lining, which again is bonded to the fabric but is ideal for privacy. And Processed is just the fabric on its own with that has a clear stiffening spray applied to it for rigidness.

STYLISH IN DESIGN - You have a lot of creative freedom when it comes to the finished look of your Roller Blind. In addition to a pelmet, you can also add a 5 cm contrasting bottom border. Any of our other fabrics can be used for this, for example Gypsy Garland in Dove, with a bottom border in Stockholm Stripe - Dove, Winter. You could also opt for a Plain Linen Union in Saffron border instead, to go with the Gypsy, depending on the other colours in your room. The choice is yours to coordinate as you see fit!

Also, if you can’t reach the top of the window at all easily, a Roller Blind with a pelmet to hide the roll might be the right choice as you will have no need to reach the top ever. The maximum size for roller and roman blinds is 240cm x 240cm.

You can order your Made to Measure Blinds, Curtains, Cushions and more, straight from our website. The online video guide will help you measure your windows for blinds. For a written guide on how to measure, please click here where you can print or download a copy for

All our fabrics are printed in the UK on a good weight of 100% Linen, and Linen Union, making them suitable for lampshades, curtains, blinds, cushions, and upholstery. We hold a good stock of all our fabrics ensuring delivery is usually within 3-5 working days subject to availability. The same team, who takes your order will roll, inspect and cut it, so accuracy and quality can be assured.