Built for Hurlingham's mixed-light rooms
Established gardens along Hurlingham's streets throw deep shade on one side of a house and hard afternoon glare on the other — sometimes in the same open-plan room. That's the practical case for measuring room by room rather than specifying one fabric for the whole house: a north-facing living area opening onto the garden usually wants sunscreen to keep the view; the main bedroom above it usually wants blockout.
Options worth asking about
- Double roller (day/night combo) — blockout and sunscreen on one bracket, the practical answer for a bedroom with a view.
- Control — chain (with a wall-anchored tensioner as standard), spring-assist, or fully motorised for wide or hard-to-reach windows.
- Cassette or pelmet valances to hide the tube, with fascia colour-matched to your frames.
- Wide spans — single blinds run to roughly 3m of fabric; beyond that we either split with a central join or motorise linked blinds so the join disappears into the operation, not the view.
Specifier note
A double roller is usually the better spend than two separate blinds when a bedroom looks over a garden — one bracket, two fabrics, and you're not choosing between darkness and the view.
Where they win, and where they don't
Rollers are the right call for modern additions, big glass and easy cleaning, at almost any budget from entry fabrics to premium wide-width and motorised systems. They're less suited to very wide unbroken spans without a join, and to strict heritage cottage aesthetics — a timber venetian usually reads better against original sash windows.