Arena at 1Click Blinds is a roman blind line rather than a single design: one soft-fold make-up offered across 50 colourways and seven named families, from £32.49. The span is the story here. At one end sit Amira's grown-up tonals; at the other, star and safari prints drawn for children's rooms; in between, smaller families cover the moods from sunny to moody. A roman is the tailored option among blinds - flat fabric that gathers into stacked folds as it lifts - and Arena applies that single construction to an unusually wide set of personalities.
Who it suits
Romans are what you choose when a window should look dressed rather than merely fitted: living rooms, bedrooms, and any scheme where a roller would read as too hard-edged. Arena's split personality lets the same make-up run through a whole house - tonal Amira shades in the sitting room, a star print in the nursery - which is a quiet advantage when you want rooms to feel related without matching.
Two honest caveats. A roman is a dearer make than a roller, here as everywhere, so a tight multi-window budget is better spent on a plain roller collection. And fabric folds are poor company for steam, so kitchens and bathrooms usually deserve a wipeable blind instead. For children's rooms specifically: corded blinds in the UK must meet child-safety rules, so specify safe operation when you order, fit the safety device that comes with the blind, and keep any cord well out of reach of cots and beds.
The designs
50 colours available
Amira is the backbone: tonal, plain-leaning colourways such as Mineral, Rosa, Sunset, Topaz, Silver and Cranberry, doing the grown-up rooms. The children's end is a trio - Little Star, in shades like Silver, alongside Safari Friends and Celebrate - covering stars, jungle animals and pastel party prints. Around them sit the smaller families: Roscoe in Mimosa and Multi, Amora in Brass and the darker Nightshade, Laguna in Ember. Choosing from a screen needs one roman-specific caution: this fabric spends its life partly folded, so a large motif will crop and repeat across the stack in ways a flat product photo never shows, and a tonal weave can change character in the shadow of its own pleats. Order samples, and if the blind is for a child's room, judge the print at arm's length - nursery patterns earn their keep from cot distance, not in close-up.
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The from-price buys the smallest window in the line, and a roman's tailored construction means size tells on the figure more than it does on a simple roller. Nursery windows are often small, which works in your favour; a full-width lounge window will not be. Either way, the table above at your own width and drop is the figure that counts.
How it compares
Within 1Click's catalogue, Arena is the soft, sewn counterpoint to a wall of rollers: the budget plains of Unity Polaris and the tool-free Insta Fit line answer practical briefs, while Arena is the one you pick for the look of the thing. It is a 1Click Blinds exclusive among the retailers we track, and that cuts both ways: there is nobody else to price it against, but it is a line the identikit made-to-measure catalogues do not carry. The weave is the standard, light-filtering sort, so a nursery that needs proper darkness for daytime naps should read the blackout roman guide; the wider field is in the roman guide, and the nursery round-up compares children's options across every blind type.
A note on care
A roman asks for slightly gentler housekeeping than a roller. Dust along the folds with a soft brush or a vacuum's upholstery head on low suction, working with the pleats rather than across them, and lift marks with a barely damp cloth - never soak the fabric, which can pucker the sewn structure. Raise and lower the blind by its mechanism rather than by tugging the cloth, and make checking the cords and safety fittings part of the same habit, especially in a child's room. Treated that way, a sewn blind holds its tailoring for years.