Argent is the French word for silver, and the Argent roller range at Blinds By Post carries the theme through its whole shade card: 4 colourways named Champagne, Copper, Mercury and Gold, priced from £23.26. The card reads less like a paint chart than a tray of metals, and that is the pitch - where most roller ranges anchor themselves in stone and ash, this one is named for finishes that catch the light. The listings take in cassette and motorised versions too, so the hardware can be tidied away or automated to suit the window.
Who it suits
Rollers are the tidy default for most rooms: the fabric stacks onto its tube when raised, leaving the glass clear, and the mechanism is simple enough to shrug off years of daily use. What Argent adds to that practical base is a warmer, dressier register. Names like Champagne and Gold point at living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms where the window is part of the decorating scheme rather than a background fixture, while Mercury offers the cooler, silvered route for interiors already built on grey.
The two fittings each have a clear job. A cassette encloses the roll in a headrail so the top of the blind looks finished rather than mechanical - worth having where the tube would otherwise sit at eye level or in an open-plan sightline. Motorisation suits wide spans, tall stairwell glass and windows above worktops or sinks, anywhere a control chain would dangle awkwardly or be a stretch to reach. Neither is an automatic upgrade: the cassette earns its cost where the headrail shows, the motor where the chain is a nuisance. Whatever the room, confirm the fabric's opacity on the listing before ordering for a bedroom, since a roller's light control comes from the cloth rather than the format.
The colours
4 colours available
The four names sketch their own swatch card. Champagne promises the palest pour, an off-white with warmth in it, while Gold deepens the same idea into something richer. Copper is the outlier, pointing at burnished orange-brown territory that pairs naturally with terracotta, timber and autumn-leaning schemes. Mercury is the cool counterweight, the silvery grey the range is named for. How much actual glint each cloth carries is exactly what a screen cannot tell you: any finish that trades on catching the light will shift character with the hour of the day and the angle it is seen from. Order samples and look at them on the window wall itself, morning and evening, before choosing.
Price by your dimensions
Enter your window size. We round up to the next standard size, which matches how the retailer actually quotes you.
Price around its usual level (checked since 12 Jun).
The from-price belongs to the smallest blind the range is cut at, and cost climbs with width and drop in the usual made-to-measure way. Expect the fitting choice to move the figure as well: a cassette adds hardware and a motor adds more, which is true of every roller range rather than a quirk of this one. Price the size you actually need from the table above before weighing up the upgrades.
How it compares
Within Blinds By Post's roller shelf, Argent is the name-led, finish-forward option beside the big plain ranges. Anyone after a broad card of ordinary matt neutrals has other lines to browse; anyone shopping specifically for warmth and sheen will find the whole range pulls in that direction, which is rarer.
The name is not exclusive to the shop, either. Argent also appears at Blinds Direct, Roller Blinds Direct and Wilsons Blinds among the retailers we track, and the same colourway at the same measurements is priced independently by each shop - the gaps are sometimes trivial, sometimes not, and they move as sizes change. Our Argent roller comparison lines the four shops up at your dimensions, and with a fabric cut this widely it is the sensible last stop before ordering.
A note on care
Treat the face of the cloth gently: regular dusting with a soft brush or the vacuum's upholstery head, marks lifted by dabbing with a barely damp cloth, and no abrasive cleaners or hard scrubbing - on any cloth chosen for its finish, the finish is what careless cleaning dulls first. Keep the blind rolling true, squaring the fabric on the tube if it starts to creep towards one end, since a roll that winds off-centre creases along the edge. Cassette versions collect dust in the headrail slot, so run the vacuum along it now and then, and a motorised blind needs little beyond fresh batteries in the handset - anything on the mains side is an electrician's job rather than a Saturday project.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Argent roller blinds are sold under the same name by more than one UK retailer, and the price scales identically across window sizes - a strong sign it is the same fabric from the same supplier:
- Blinds By Post this page from £23.26
- Roller Blinds Direct from £37.31
- Blinds Direct from £40.87
- Wilsons Blinds from £43.89
We match these on the shared name and an identical price curve, not an independent inspection, so treat it as likely the same fabric rather than confirmed - and check the specification and colour at each retailer before buying.