28 light-filtering panel blinds, £162-£562 for a standard window (around 1200×1200 mm). Enter your exact window below - each price updates to your size, and we move you to the right size band if you go outside this one.

Light-filtering fabric is woven loosely enough to let soft daylight through, yet closely enough to screen the view from outside, so a room stays bright and airy while keeping its privacy through the day. It is the fabric to choose when you want to keep all the daylight you can - living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, home offices and north-facing rooms that never feel quite light enough - and it takes the harsh edge off glare on a screen without darkening the room.

The honest caveat is what happens after dark. Once it is black outside and your lights are on, the balance flips: a light-filtering fabric turns partly see-through from the street, so you read as a silhouette from outside. If night privacy matters, pair it with a blackout blind or curtains behind, or step up to a dimout. It does little for sleep or shift work either - that is blackout's job, not this one. Across the blind types the effect shifts in character: a roller or pleated gives an even, diffused glow, while a vertical or venetian leans the same way but breaks the light into slat lines. Paler fabrics glow and feel the most open; darker ones cut more light but read heavier in the room.

How much it screens comes down to the weave: a tighter light-filtering fabric gives more privacy and a softer light, an opener one feels sheerer and brighter, so it is worth holding a sample up in the room before you commit. Where you need brightness by day and cover by night, the usual answer is to layer - a light-filtering blind for the daytime with a blackout blind or curtains behind for the evening. It also earns its keep at a desk, taking the glare off a screen without dropping the room into shade, which is why studies and home offices lean on it so often.

It is the everyday choice for the rooms you live in by day, where you want the space bright and the street kept at arm's length without reaching for the lights. Soft neutrals and pale weaves throw the most even glow; in a room that runs hot or faces south, a fabric with a subtle reflective backing trims the heat while keeping that daytime softness.

A panel blind is a set of wide, flat fabric panels that glide across a track and stack neatly to one side. Each panel moves on its own runner, so the blind slides open like a screen rather than rolling or folding, and the look is clean and architectural. It comes into its own on the windows other blinds struggle with - very wide picture windows, patio and bifold doors - and it doubles neatly as a sliding room divider.

Panels are made in fabrics from sheer to blackout, so you set the light level to the room. The panels overlap slightly as they stack, but the joins between them and the edges still let some light through, so they shade and screen rather than seal a room dark. Individual panels unclip for cleaning or replacement, which keeps a large covering manageable. Across a very wide span a panel blind is usually a more economical and better-looking answer than stretching another style to fit.

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