Made-to-measure blinds have long carried a reputation problem: everyone wants them, but the moment a salesperson visits your living room with a fabric book, the quote seems to triple. 1ClickBlinds takes a very different approach. It’s a UK-based, direct-to-consumer blinds company built around one simple promise: custom-fit blinds, cut to your exact window measurements, at some of the lowest prices you’ll find anywhere online. No showrooms, no home visits, no middlemen — just a website, a tape measure, and a factory that cuts each order to size.
We spent time going through the full 1ClickBlinds range — roller, venetian, vertical and day-night styles — comparing prices against the big UK players, and digging into how the ordering, measuring and delivery experience actually works. This review covers what impressed us, where the budget positioning shows, and who should (and shouldn’t) buy their next set of blinds here.
PrimeVouch Score: 8.4/10
Best for: Budget-conscious UK homeowners, landlords and renters who want proper made-to-measure blinds without paying showroom or home-consultation prices.
What we loved:
- Genuinely low prices — entry-level made-to-measure rollers appear to start from around the price of a takeaway, which undercuts most UK rivals
- Every blind is cut to your exact measurements, so you get a proper custom fit rather than a trimmed-down standard size
- A solid spread of styles in one place: roller, venetian, vertical and day-night (zebra) blinds
- A refreshingly simple ordering flow — enter width, drop and fitting type, pick a fabric, done
- Direct-to-consumer model means no pushy sales visits and no paying for someone else’s commission
What could be better:
- There’s no physical showroom, so you can’t feel fabrics in person before committing
- Measuring is entirely on you — and made-to-measure products are rarely returnable if you get it wrong
- The premium end of the market (motorised, designer-fabric and shutter-style options) looks thinner than at bigger rivals
- As with most made-to-order products, dispatch can reportedly stretch out during busy periods
What makes 1ClickBlinds different
The UK blinds market splits broadly into three camps: national chains with home consultants, mid-market online retailers, and ready-made blinds from the high street that you trim with scissors and hope for the best. 1ClickBlinds plants its flag firmly in a fourth space — online made-to-measure at aggressively low prices. The pitch is that a blind cut to your window’s exact millimetre shouldn’t cost five times more than an ill-fitting ready-made one, and by selling directly from production to your door, the brand strips out the layers that usually inflate the price.
The name isn’t just marketing, either. The whole site is engineered around speed: you pick a style, punch in your width and drop, choose recess or exact fit, and you’re at checkout in a couple of minutes. There are no consultation bookings, no quote requests, no waiting for a callback. For anyone who has endured the traditional blinds-buying process — or worse, tried to hack a ready-made blind down to size — that simplicity is the core of the appeal.
The star product: made-to-measure roller blinds
Roller blinds are the heart of the 1ClickBlinds range, and they’re where the value story is strongest. Each roller is cut to your stated width and drop, with a choice of standard light-filtering fabrics or blackout options for bedrooms and nurseries. You choose whether the measurement is for the recess (they make the deductions for brackets) or an exact blind size, pick your fabric colour, and the blind arrives ready to fit with the brackets and fixings included.
What stands out is how little compromise the low price seems to demand. The mechanisms are the familiar sidewinder chain type used across the industry, child-safety devices are included as UK regulations require, and blackout fabrics do the job they claim. These aren’t heavyweight designer blinds with hand-finished hems — but for a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom or rental property, they cover the essentials at a price that makes doing the whole house realistic.
The blackout roller in particular deserves a mention. It’s the product most people actually need — light-blocking, wipeable, custom-cut — and at 1ClickBlinds’ pricing you can plausibly do three bedrooms for what a single consultant-sold blind might cost elsewhere. That’s the trade this brand is built on.
The rest of the range
Venetian blinds
The venetian line covers the classic horizontal-slat look in aluminium and faux-wood styles. Aluminium venetians suit kitchens and bathrooms where moisture rules out real wood, while the faux-wood options give a warmer, more traditional finish for living rooms. Slats tilt for fine light control, and everything is cut to width like the rollers. They sit at a slightly higher price point than basic rollers, which is normal for the category.
Vertical blinds
Vertical blinds remain the default for wide windows, patio doors and offices, and 1ClickBlinds treats them as a core product rather than an afterthought. Louvres come in a range of plain and textured fabrics, including blackout and dim-out weaves, and the headrail is cut to your exact width. For landlords and anyone furnishing a home office, these are a practical, inexpensive way to cover large glazing without curtains.
Day & night blinds
Day-night blinds — sometimes called zebra or vision blinds — alternate translucent and opaque fabric bands, so you can align them for privacy with daylight or offset them to block the view entirely. They’re the most contemporary-looking product in the range and usually the style that costs a small fortune elsewhere. Here they carry a modest premium over standard rollers, which makes them an easy upgrade for living rooms and street-facing windows.
Price & value
Pricing is the headline act, so let’s put rough numbers on it. Exact prices depend on your measurements, fabric and any options, and they change with promotions, so treat the figures below as ballpark starting points at the time of writing rather than quotes. Small windows sit near the bottom of each range; large bay windows and patio-door spans climb from there.
| Product type | Typical starting price (small window) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Roller blinds | From roughly £10–£15 | Blackout fabrics carry a small premium |
| Venetian blinds | From around £15–£25 | Faux-wood costs more than aluminium |
| Vertical blinds | From around £14–£22 | Priced mainly by headrail width |
| Day & night blinds | From around £18–£30 | The most design-led option in the range |
Compared with the broader UK market, those starting points are genuinely at the cheap end for made-to-measure — many well-known competitors’ equivalent blinds appear to start at two to four times more once you configure a real window size. The value equation is simple: you give up fabric-book house calls and premium branding, and in exchange you can realistically blind an entire three-bedroom house for a low three-figure sum. For rentals, first homes and quick refurbishments, that maths is hard to argue with.
How to choose — and get the best results
- Measure twice with a metal tape measure — fabric tapes stretch, and made-to-measure blinds are only as good as the numbers you type in
- Decide between a recess fit (blind sits inside the window opening) and an exact fit (blind mounts outside it) before you measure, because the measurements differ
- Match the fabric to the room: blackout for bedrooms, moisture-friendly rollers or aluminium venetians for kitchens and bathrooms, dim-out for living spaces
- For wide spans and patio doors, look at verticals or split the opening into two blinds — very wide single blinds can sag over time on any budget mechanism
- Order any free or low-cost samples where offered, and check the fabric in your room’s actual light before committing to a whole house
The single biggest factor in your satisfaction is step one. Follow the site’s measuring guide to the letter, note whether it asks for recess size or blind size, and write your measurements down before entering them. Ten careful minutes with a tape measure is the difference between a perfect custom fit and an expensive lesson.
Common buying mistakes to avoid
The mistakes we see with budget made-to-measure blinds are almost never about the product and almost always about the order. People measure the old blind instead of the window, mix up width and drop, forget that a recess fit needs clearance for handles and tiles, or assume they can return a custom-cut blind that doesn’t fit — which, as with most made-to-order goods, is generally not the case unless the item is faulty. Others cheap out on blackout where it matters (a child’s bedroom in summer) or order one huge blind where two narrower ones would run more smoothly. Slow down at the measuring stage and none of these will happen to you.
Watch: How to measure windows for blinds
1ClickBlinds vs alternatives
The obvious comparison is with the established UK online players — Blinds 2go, Make My Blinds, English Blinds and the DIY sheds’ ready-made ranges. Blinds 2go remains the category heavyweight, with a huge fabric library, frequent sales, motorised options and a long track record; if you want maximum choice and designer collaborations, it’s hard to beat, but its configured prices for an average window typically land well above 1ClickBlinds’ equivalents. Make My Blinds competes on slick user experience and generous guarantees, again at a higher price point. Ready-made blinds from Dunelm, B&Q or Argos can be cheaper still on the shelf, but they come in fixed widths — you either tolerate gaps that leak light or hack them down yourself, and they rarely fit bay windows or odd sizes at all. Traditional consultant services like Hillarys sit at the opposite extreme: excellent hand-holding, several times the cost. 1ClickBlinds’ niche is precise: true made-to-measure fit at prices that flirt with ready-made territory, for buyers happy to do their own measuring.
Quality, shipping & support
Set expectations correctly and quality lands where it should. These are competent, functional blinds: fabrics are consistent, mechanisms are the standard chain and wand systems used across the industry, and the cutting appears accurate to the measurements supplied. What you don’t get at this price is the heft of premium hardware — metal chains, oversized barrels, hand-stitched detailing. For everyday domestic use that trade-off is invisible; side by side with a blind costing four times more, you’d notice the difference in the hand, not on the window.
Because every blind is cut to order, shipping isn’t next-day retail. Orders typically appear to be produced and dispatched within a few working days, with UK delivery on top; busy promotional periods can reportedly stretch that, so build in a buffer if you’re coordinating with decorators or a moving date. Blinds arrive in long boxes with brackets, fixings and fitting instructions included, and installation for most styles is a two-bracket, ten-minute job with a drill and a spirit level.
Support runs through email and web contact rather than phone-first service, which is typical for direct-to-consumer operations at this price. The important protections are the standard UK ones: faulty or incorrectly cut items (against the measurements you supplied) should be replaced, while change-of-mind returns on custom goods are generally excluded. Keep your order confirmation and photograph any issues on arrival — that’s good practice with any made-to-measure retailer, not just this one.
What real customers say
Customer sentiment around budget made-to-measure brands tends to follow a pattern, and from what we can see 1ClickBlinds fits it. The happy majority talk about disbelief at the price-to-fit ratio — blinds that arrive cut precisely to size for less than a ready-made from the high street — along with easy ordering and solid blackout performance. Repeat orders for whole-house projects come up often, which is usually the strongest signal a value brand is delivering.
The critical minority cluster around two themes: delivery taking longer than hoped during busy spells, and disputes where a blind didn’t fit — which, on inspection, often trace back to measuring mix-ups rather than cutting errors. A smaller group wish the fabric range stretched further into designer territory. As always, weight recent reviews more heavily than old ones, and read the negative ones for patterns rather than one-offs.
Who should buy — and who should not
Buy from 1ClickBlinds if you’re furnishing on a budget and want blinds that actually fit: first-time buyers doing a whole house, landlords refreshing rentals, renters who want blackout in the bedroom without spending like a homeowner, and anyone replacing tired blinds in kitchens, bathrooms and offices. If you’re comfortable with a tape measure and a drill, the value here is about as good as UK made-to-measure gets.
Look elsewhere if you want a curated, premium experience: motorised and smart-home blinds, designer fabric collections, in-home consultations, or someone else to do the measuring and fitting. Shutters, curtains and high-end Roman blinds also sit outside the core offer. And if the thought of measuring your own windows genuinely stresses you out, paying more for a consultant service is the honest solution — a cheap blind cut to the wrong numbers is no bargain.
Honest limits
Our verdict comes with the usual caveats. We’re assessing the brand’s range, pricing and policies as presented online, alongside general customer sentiment — not a years-long durability trial of every fabric in every room. Prices and promotions move around constantly, product ranges change, and dispatch times vary with demand, so verify the details on the site before ordering. Where we’ve made comparisons with competitors, they’re based on typical configured prices, which shift with sales on all sides.
1ClickBlinds discount codes & deals
1ClickBlinds already positions itself at the bottom of the made-to-measure market, but promotions, seasonal sales and multi-blind offers can push the effective price lower still. Before you check out — especially on a whole-house order, where even a small percentage adds up — take thirty seconds to check our deals hub for verified 1ClickBlinds codes and current offers. We update listings regularly and clear out expired codes so you’re not left pasting duds at checkout.
1ClickBlinds FAQ
Are 1ClickBlinds really made to measure? Yes — each blind is cut to the width and drop you enter at checkout, rather than being a ready-made blind in a fixed size. That’s also why accurate measuring matters so much: the factory cuts what you type.
Can I return a made-to-measure blind if I measured wrong? Generally no. Like most custom-cut products in the UK, made-to-measure blinds are typically excluded from change-of-mind returns. Faulty items or blinds cut incorrectly against your supplied measurements are a different matter and should be replaced — check the current policy on the site.
How long does delivery take? Because blinds are made to order, expect production plus delivery rather than next-day dispatch — typically a few working days to around a week or so, longer in busy periods. Order ahead if you’re working to a decorating deadline.
Do the blinds come with fittings and instructions? Yes — brackets, fixings and fitting instructions are included, and most styles install with a drill, a screwdriver and a spirit level in around ten to fifteen minutes per window.
Are blackout roller blinds actually blackout? The blackout fabrics block light through the fabric itself, which is what the term means industry-wide. Some light will always creep around the edges of any recess-fitted blind; an exact-fit blind mounted outside the recess, sized larger than the opening, minimises that.
Are the blinds child-safe? UK regulations require child-safety devices on corded and chained blinds, and 1ClickBlinds’ products ship with the standard safety fittings. Always install the chain tensioner or cleat provided, especially in children’s rooms.
Is 1ClickBlinds cheaper than Blinds 2go or Dunelm? Against made-to-measure rivals like Blinds 2go, configured prices at 1ClickBlinds generally come in noticeably lower. Against ready-made blinds from Dunelm or B&Q, prices are comparable — but you get a custom fit instead of a fixed size.
Choosing window treatments room by room: a quick guide
If you’re dressing a whole home, resist the urge to buy one style everywhere — each room asks a different question. Bedrooms are about darkness and sleep, so start with blackout rollers or day-night blinds with an opaque band wide enough to kill streetlight; in children’s rooms, prioritise cordless or properly tensioned safety fittings above all else. Kitchens and bathrooms are about moisture and wipeability, which points to aluminium venetians or moisture-resistant rollers rather than fabric verticals that hold cooking smells. Living rooms carry the style load: day-night blinds give you that adjustable privacy-with-light trick that streets-facing lounges need, while faux-wood venetians add warmth without real wood’s water problems. Home offices want glare control for screens — verticals or dim-out rollers let you cut low sun without sitting in the dark. Patio doors and wide spans are vertical-blind territory, or two blinds instead of one oversized sag-prone span. Measure every window separately even when they look identical — in older houses they rarely are — and keep a note of which measurement convention (recess or exact) you used for each. Get those decisions right and even the cheapest made-to-measure blinds will look deliberate, considered and far more expensive than they were.