The Bexley is a fabric vertical blind sold by Blinds By Post, available in 8 colours and priced from £43.00. It sits firmly in the plain-fabric vertical category - no textures, no prints, no PVC - and its palette leans towards soft neutrals and muted pastels, which makes it a natural fit for rooms where the blind should recede rather than dominate.

Who it suits

Vertical blinds are best suited to wide window openings and patio doors, where horizontal blinds become impractical to raise and lower cleanly. The Bexley handles those spans well. The vanes slide and rotate from a top track, so you can angle them to control light without stacking all the fabric to one side - useful on a south-facing patio door where glare management matters more than blackout.

The opacity of the Bexley fabric is not stated explicitly, so confirm with Blinds By Post before ordering if blackout is a hard requirement. On visual evidence the range reads as a standard fabric vane, which typically delivers reasonable privacy with a degree of light diffusion - adequate for living rooms, conservatories, and home offices, but likely to allow a glow of light in from a lit-up outside space at night. For a bedroom requiring genuine darkness, a blackout-lined option would be a safer choice.

The palette also makes the Bexley a reasonable candidate for a home office or study: muted tones reduce visual distraction, and the adjustable vane angle helps cut screen glare without plunging the room into darkness.

Where it is less suitable: very humid rooms like bathrooms or kitchens where a wipe-clean PVC vane would outlast a fabric one, or narrow standard windows where a roller or venetian blind would be a simpler and cheaper solution.

The colours

8 colours available

Eight colours run from pale through to mid-depth: Blush and Peony bring a quiet rose-pink warmth, while Cotton and Creme sit at the cream-white end of the spectrum, useful where a crisp but not cold look is wanted. Duck Egg introduces a familiar grey-green, and Hydra and Shadow push into cooler grey territory - Shadow being the darkest of the group. Sandstone is the earthy middle ground between the warm creams and cooler greys.

The grouping is coherent. These are not eight variations on a single colour; they span a range of undertones, so there is genuine choice depending on whether the room leans warm or cool. None of the colours are bold or saturated, which suits the "background blind" role vertical blinds often play in larger rooms. If you need a more dramatic colour, this range will not deliver it - but that is by design rather than a weakness.

Price by your dimensions

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Starting from £43.00, the Bexley sits at the accessible end of made-to-measure pricing. Vertical blinds are generally cheaper per square metre than roman or cellular blinds, and this range is no exception. Wider patio doors will cost more, but the from-price indicates that smaller or straightforward sizes are achievable without a large outlay. As with all made-to-measure blinds, the price steps up in bands as width and drop increase - the grid above shows how the cost moves at common sizes.

How it compares

Within the vertical blind category, the Bexley's main distinction is its palette. Many vertical blind ranges at this price point offer a smaller handful of colours, often dominated by white and grey. Eight colours with genuine tonal variety gives more room to match existing furnishings.

Where the Bexley cannot compete is against PVC vertical vanes for durability in wet or greasy rooms - fabric vanes absorb moisture and grease rather than wiping clean. Equally, if precise blackout is the goal, a roller blind with a verified blackout fabric and side channels will block more light than any vertical blind, because even when vanes are fully closed there is always some light pass-through around the track and vane edges.

For living rooms, open-plan spaces with patio doors, and conservatories, though, the Bexley offers a practical, quietly stylish solution - and the breadth of its colour range means it can be matched to a wider variety of interiors than many alternatives at a similar price.

Fitting and operation

Vertical blinds are straightforward to fit: the top track is screwed to the ceiling or wall, and the vanes clip in. Most tracks support both recess and face fitting. Operation is by wand or cord for rotation, and by cord or hand for sliding the vanes. The cord-and-wand system is standard and child-safety compliant, but if the blind is going into a children's room, verify with Blinds By Post which control option is supplied and whether a breakaway cord connector is included.

Likely the same fabric, at other retailers

Bexley vertical 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 £7.66
  • Blinds By Post this page from £43.00
  • So Easy Blinds from £48.44

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.

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