Roller blinds
Roller blinds, made to measure for the Upper Hunter
The workhorse of the range, and the one that makes a room dark. If there’s one blind this valley runs on, it’s a blockout roller in a shift worker’s bedroom.
The one job it has to do
Dark enough to sleep at 11am
A blockout roller uses a tightly woven fabric that light can’t get through. Down goes the blind, and the room drops into shade. That part is easy.
The part most people get wrong is the edges. Look at the photo: the fabric is doing its job, but light is still leaking around the sides, and for a day sleeper that thin bright line is the difference between a dim room and a dark one. The fix is fitting the blind into side channels or a cassette so the light can’t creep past the fabric. If sleeping through the day matters, we’ll always talk you through that.
Blockout, light-filter or sheer
Same blind, three different fabrics
A roller is a roller. What changes the room is the fabric you hang on it, so it’s worth knowing the difference before we measure.
- Blockout
- Stops the light. For bedrooms, and especially day-sleep bedrooms. Also holds the heat out of a west-facing room and keeps the sun off the furniture. Fit it in channels if you want true dark.
- Light-filter
- Softens the glare and gives you daytime privacy while keeping the room bright. Good for living areas, kitchens and the fronts of houses where you still want to see out.
- Sheer
- The lightest touch. Cuts the harsh edge off the sun and adds privacy without darkening the room. Often paired behind a blockout on a double bracket so you can switch through the day.
The two-in-one option
A double roller hangs a blockout and a light-filter on the one window. Pull the sheer through the day for glare and privacy, drop the blockout at night or before a day sleep. It’s the neat answer for a room that’s a bedroom and a living space at different hours, which plenty of shift-work houses have.
Where it suits
Rooms a roller earns its keep
The day-sleep bedroom
Blockout fabric in side channels. This is the one we fit most, and the reason the site talks about full dark at midday.
Kids’ rooms
Blockout for naps and early mornings, cordless operation so there’s nothing hanging within reach. Child-safe blinds →
West-facing living areas
A light-filter or a double roller to knock the afternoon glare down without shutting the room in by three o’clock.
Bathrooms and kitchens
An easy-clean fabric that copes with steam and splashes and wipes down when the dust settles.
How we make and fit them
Every roller is made to the measurement of your window, not cut down from a standard size. A licensed installer fits it, squares it up so it runs true, and sets the controls out of a child’s reach. Operation can be a chain, a spring, or motorised if you’ve got a bank of windows or something high and awkward to reach. We’ll walk through the options at the measure and recommend what suits the room, without pushing you up the range.
We don’t quote a roller sight unseen. Send us the rooms and we’ll come out, measure, and put it in writing.
Ready when your shift is
Tell us the rooms and how you live in them. We'll come out, measure up, and give you a written quote for made-to-measure blinds. Full dark at midday, if that's what the room needs.