Made to Measure Kids Bedroom Roller Blinds

Made to Measure Roller Blinds

Which of your fabrics make suitable roller blinds for kids?

The beauty of Roller Blinds is that the surface is flat and children can really enjoy looking at the patterns and the scenes.

Vanessa can still remember the fabric in her bedroom when she was a little girl. Children are so observant and have to time to gaze and day dream so it is important to give them pictorial fabrics to feed their wonderful, creative imaginations. Children lie awake for 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, inspired by cave drawings and Etruscan cases seen on her many visits to the British Museum. If that won’t feed the imagination of little ones we're not sure what will! Also, Vanessa's younger daughter, Flora, drew the fun bird for Bird Hop.

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.

For the Love of Rose is another beautiful, pictorial fabric design depicting a couple living off the land surrounded by their animals and shepherds hut that they live in; the hut being everyone's favourite focal point!

These fabrics will grow with the children, they are not exclusively for ‘little people’ and you won’t have to change the blinds as they grow up; children’s become very attached to the familiar.

These designs are printed on beautiful 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 any children’s bedroom, playroom, or nursery.

If you simply cannot decide which is best, blinds or curtains in a child or baby’s room, then why not try using both? Doing so provides privacy, gives you design options for adding more colour and pattern, and chances to dress your windows nicely.

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

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

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.