The best blinds for conservatory glass are chosen by surface, not by product, and the surface that matters most is the one above your head. Most of the heat that makes a conservatory unusable in July arrives through the roof, and most people spend their budget on the walls. That...

Total blackout blinds are judged by one test: stand in the room at midday, drop the blind, and look for a line of light around the window. If you can still see the shape of the opening, the word total was marketing. The fabric is rarely what fails. The four...

Kitchen roman blinds belong over a sink and nowhere near a hob. The fabric is the whole appeal and the whole problem: soft folds in the one room that makes grease, steam and naked flame, hanging in a space otherwise built from wipe-clean surfaces. The useful question is not whether...

Electric blackout blinds are not a blackout blind with a motor bolted on. The motor sits inside the tube, the tube gets thicker, and everything about how the blind meets the window changes with it. Blackout performance lives at the edges, so a fitting change is a performance change, which...