The Barclay Noir is a grey roller blind sold by Blinds By Post as a made-to-measure option across a single colourway - 4 finish in total, with prices starting from £12.00. It sits at the entry level of the Blinds By Post roller range, and its appeal is straightforward: a clean, neutral grey that works quietly in most rooms without demanding attention.
Who it suits
Grey roller blinds have broad room-by-room appeal because the colour neither reads as cold nor warm in isolation - it defers to the other surfaces in the room. In a kitchen or bathroom, a grey roller fabric is a practical choice when aluminium or faux-wood venetians feel too utilitarian; it wipes down without showing marks badly and doesn't call attention to itself above a splashback or beside tiled walls.
For living rooms and bedrooms, the suitability depends on the opacity. The per-range listing does not state a specific opacity class for the Barclay Noir, so confirm with Blinds By Post whether the fabric is light-filtering, dimout, or blackout before ordering. That distinction matters most in bedrooms: a blackout-rated fabric will block light through the material itself, while a dimout or light-filtering option will let glow through even when fully lowered. Either way, a rolled fabric alone won't eliminate light leak around the edges - pair it with a deep enough recess fit or a face-fix mount with generous side overlap if true darkness is the goal.
A home office or study is another reasonable setting. A light-filtering grey fabric diffuses glare from a south- or west-facing window without plunging the room into darkness during the working day. If screen glare is the primary concern, a dimout roller in a cool neutral tends to do the job without making the room feel gloomy.
Where the Barclay Noir is less obviously suited: rooms where warmth is the priority - a traditional dining room or a room styled around natural timbers would likely feel better served by a Roman blind in a linen-blend fabric than by a plain polyester roller, regardless of colour.
The colours
4 colours available
The Barclay Noir comes in one finish: grey. The per-range listing doesn't break that down further into named sub-tones (warm grey, cool grey, blue-grey), so if the precise shade matters for your scheme - against white walls it reads differently than against off-white or warm plaster - request a fabric sample from Blinds By Post before ordering. Most UK made-to-measure retailers post out samples for free or at a nominal cost, and for a colour-sensitive job that's always worth doing rather than relying on screen rendering.
A single-colourway range is not inherently limiting. If the grey works with your room, the simplicity means there's nothing to overthink. Where it does become a limitation is if your existing scheme runs warm and you need a shade closer to taupe or greige - in that case, a different range with broader colour options is likely a better starting point.
Price by your dimensions
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Starting from £12.00, the Barclay Noir sits firmly at the budget end of the made-to-measure roller market. At that entry point, the smallest standard sizes are within reach of most budgets, though the price will climb as width and drop increase - the grid above shows how the cost scales with your specific window dimensions. Made-to-measure pricing rounds up to the next standard size band in most cases, so a window that falls just below a size boundary will be priced at the larger band.
How it compares
At the entry-level price point, the Barclay Noir competes with a wide field of budget grey rollers across the main UK made-to-measure retailers. The honest comparison is not between specific named ranges but between opacity classes: if you need a confirmed blackout roller, make sure the Barclay Noir is explicitly rated blackout before ruling out alternatives, because a dimout option at a similar price point may serve a general living-room brief just as well.
Where a roller blind in any grey fabric falls short is in rooms that benefit from slat-angle control - venetian blinds let you admit angled light without raising the whole blind, which is genuinely useful beside a south-facing desk. And for anyone dealing with a very large window, a vertical blind with 89mm fabric vanes covers wide spans more cleanly than a single roller fabric, which can bow or resist smooth operation beyond a certain width.
Within its category - single-fabric, entry-level, made-to-measure grey rollers - the Barclay Noir is a reasonable choice if the opacity suits your room. The main thing to establish before ordering is whether the fabric meets your light-control requirement; everything else about the product is broadly standard for this type.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Barclay Noir 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:
- Swift Direct Blinds from £10.46
- Blinds By Post this page from £12.00
- So Easy Blinds from £60.29
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.