Pleated blinds buying guide

Light Control
Pleated blinds provide exceptional control over the amount of sunlight entering your space. By adjusting the angle of the pleats, you can easily diffuse or block light according to your preferences, reducing glare and creating a comfortable atmosphere.

Privacy Enhancement
The pleated structure allows for partial coverage while maintaining your privacy. This makes them an excellent choice for spaces like bathrooms and ground-floor rooms where privacy is paramount.

Energy Efficiency
Pleated blinds contribute to energy efficiency by trapping air between the pleats, acting as a barrier against heat loss in colder months and heat gain during summer. This can help reduce your energy bills and create a more comfortable environment.

Aesthetic Appeal
Pleated blinds add a touch of elegance to your windows. With a wide range of colours, patterns, and textures available, you can easily find pleated blinds that complement your interior decor and create a cohesive look.

Pleated blind are an ideal choice for your living room, with their privacy offering that balances light levels, their ability to reduce glare not to mention the great choice of fabrics and myriad colours available, allowing you to co-ordinate with existing furniture, artwork, rugs and accessories and easily pull a look together across the whole room.

One of the most important things people look for in bedroom window blinds is privacy, and pleated blinds offer that in spades. If you only want a single blind, then opt for one with some added texture - Parchment Eggshell Crush, for example, because you'll get that visual depth that creates a snug feeling while the full coverage of the blind helps to maintain privacy. You can also choose to have pleated blinds installed in a Trilite or Twinshade style, which offers a two-in-one look, so you can choose sheer blinds and standard pleated blinds in a combination, for a day and night look. And of course you have a wide choice of colours so you can easily pair them with bedding and colour schemes in the room.

The slimline nature of pleated blinds makes them a popular choice for a home office, helping to keep a streamlined appearance that won't distract attention and gives a visual cue of functionality. Again the choice of colour offers a high level of appeal too, having a greater variety of choice than many other blind types, and they're also ideal for filtering the light to reduce any glare on computer screens.

Pleated blinds are ideal for all sorts of unusual windows. With bay windows you have the challenge of a large area made up of multiple windows so the light can be coming from multiple angles at the same time, and if, as is often the case with upvc windows, there's only a narrow framework around each of the windows then installing individual single blinds at each of the windows can result in a crowded and untidy look. The streamlined nature of pleated blinds avoids this, especially when they've been made to measure. Skylight windows, or sloping windows can also be a challenge due to the small space, and again thanks to their slimline state pleated blinds rescue the day in these windows. With skylight windows, due to their closer proximity to the floor it's vital to have a child safety device fitted if you opt for corded pleated blinds, but tab operated versions are also available.

Pleated blinds come in a range of price points depending on factors like fabric quality, customisation options, and brand. While budget is important, cost saving isn't always the bottom line and you need to also consider the long-term benefits and durability of your investment and know that made to measure blinds not mean a professional fit to your exact specifications and that the only problem you'll have is making a choice on the style and colour.