The Anchor range from Order Blinds is a made-to-measure roller blind sold, as the name spells out, for the bathroom, and offered in 37 colourways from £34.00. The palette is the headline. Bathroom-specific ranges usually make do with a handful of practical shades; this one runs to nearly forty, with names that are half the fun - Babbling Brook, Hawaiian Dawn, Cookie Crumb, Edelweiss. It is an Order Blinds exclusive among the UK retailers we track, and a roller is the simplest made-to-measure type - a single piece of fabric on a tube, drawing straight up and down - which is a large part of why the format suits a steamy room in the first place.

Who it suits

Bathrooms ask more of a blind than any other room in the house: daily steam, condensation running down the glass, the odd splash, and a fabric that needs to wipe clean without ceremony. This range is named and sold for exactly that job, and the roller format works in its favour - a flat panel with no folds or pleats to hold moist air, and simple to wipe down where it hangs. The same virtues travel well to kitchens, utility rooms and cloakrooms, which make similar if gentler demands.

The range comes in a standard fitting, so plan for drilled brackets rather than a clip-in frame fix. In a tiled recess where the tiles run to the edge, face-fixing above the window is often the tidier route; check for a clear band of wall before ordering. Bear in mind too that most bathroom glass is already frosted, so the blind's job is as much softening light and finishing the room as guarding privacy - though on a clear-glazed ground-floor window it earns its keep on both counts.

The colours

37 colours available

Whoever named this palette enjoyed the work. The watery end runs from Babbling Brook and Morning Tide to Puddle and Oasis; there is a garden's worth of florals in Begonia, Clematis, Hollyhock, Hibiscus, Larkspur and Lobelia; and a warm, edible register in Cinnamon, Cookie Crumb and Horchata. Castle Keep holds down the stony, sober end, Edelweiss the crisp pale one, and Hawaiian Dawn is exactly the sunrise flourish it sounds. The names are a pleasure, but they map onto a genuinely useful spread: soft blues and watery greens, florals and pinks, warm creams and browns, and enough quiet tones to finish a plain white bathroom without raising its voice. With so many of the shades playing subtle variations on pale and pretty, order samples: bathroom light, often frosted and often artificial, shifts colour more than most rooms, so judge the shade where it will actually hang.

Price by your dimensions

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A made-to-measure roller is priced by the fabric your window takes, so the from-price reflects only the smallest standard size; use the figures above at your own width and drop. Bathroom windows tend to sit at the smaller end of a house's glazing, which in practice keeps an order from this range closer to its starting point than a lounge window ever manages. With a single standard fitting there is no fitting choice to weigh either - the measurements make the price.

How it compares

Within a bathroom brief the natural rivals are an aluminium venetian, which wipes cleaner still and adds slat-angle light control at the cost of cleaning slat by slat, and a roman, the one format worth steering away from in a steamy room because its folded fabric holds moist air. Against other rollers the difference here is focus: this range is named for the bathroom and carries a far larger palette than bathroom-specific ranges usually manage, so the smallest room in the house gets a real colour choice rather than a shortlist of white, grey and beige. It is exclusive to Order Blinds among the retailers we track, so there is no same-fabric price to shop around; the useful comparison is with the wider field in our bathroom blinds guide.

A note on care

A bathroom blind lives inside the room's moisture cycle, and small habits keep it looking fresh. Ventilate after showers so the fabric dries rather than sitting damp, and leave the blind lowered while the room airs so no moisture gets rolled up against the tube. Dust lightly or run a vacuum's soft brush over the fabric before dust can bed into the weave, and lift marks - toothpaste flecks, splash spots - with a barely damp cloth and mild soap rather than a soak, working gently so the surface is not scuffed. Let the fabric dry completely before rolling it up, and give the bottom bar and the chain an occasional wipe as well; they catch condensation first and are the easiest parts to keep smart.