Made to Measure Roller Blinds

Seaside fabrics for Made to Measure Roller Blinds

Vanessa's husband designed this wonderful seaside fabric print material, which Vanessa called By the Sea. He says, "By the Sea was inspired by my early childhood in Solva and recent visits to Mousehole and St Ives. I delight in coastal towns with their cosy harbours and brightly coloured cottages, nestling behind little pathways that snake between terraced gardens and climb up the hillside."

This seaside fabric collection comes in three colours: Scree grey, Saffron yellow, and Teal blue. The drawn line is a soft grey and the other colours create the houses and boats etc. This is particularly popular for Roller Blinds as you get a lovely flat surface to show all the beautiful design work that's gone into creating it. It is also lovely for Lampshades where you see a different scene from every angle. It is especially popular for children’s imaginations that can be fired up with the lovely detailed scenes, and with light behind the fabric, the seaside can come alive!

Are your seaside fabrics suitable to be used for Roller Blinds?

These seaside fabrics can be used for all soft furnishings. This pictorial design can be made into wonderful blinds and curtains. There is so much to look at in the design, from boats, and lighthouses, to dogs and people, as well as pretty cottages and the sea

What other patterns complement your seaside fabrics UK

There are many fabrics from our other collections that go well, or contrast well with the seaside fabric range. The Plain Linens in Saffron, Teal, and Scree, complement and contrast with the Seaside pattern and add some stillness and calm to the interior scheme.

You could upholster a chair in By the Sea in Teal and then pop a cushion in Plain Saffron on it for a warm splash of colour. My stripes particularly Stockholm Stripe, again in coordinating colours, also goes well with Pretty Maids, a delightful spot is another successful coordinate.

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 and will take 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 to the top ever…maximum size for roller and roman blinds is 240cm x 240cm

All these can be made for you through our Made to Measure service.

All these fabrics are printed in the UK on a good weight of 100% Linen and Linen Union and are suitable for curtains, blinds, cushions, lampshades and upholstery. We hold a good stock of all our fabrics ensuring delivery is usually within 3-5 working days with an overnight service available. The same team, who take you order will roll, inspect and cut it, so accuracy and quality can be assured.