The Click2shade Complete Blackout Roller Blind is a made-to-measure blackout roller sold by Blinds 2go, available in 24 colourways from £28.66. The range is built around the kind of plain, solid-colour palette that suits rooms where a blind's job is darkness rather than decoration - and the pricing reflects that practical purpose rather than any premium positioning.

Who it suits

The obvious home for a blackout roller is the bedroom, and this range is well placed for it. Blackout fabric blocks light transmission through the material itself; combined with an outside-recess fit or side channels, it will eliminate most of the morning light that disrupts sleep - particularly relevant from late March onwards when early dawns become a problem. Parents fitting a young child's room will find the neutral colour options easy to match to most wall colours, and the made-to-measure format means an awkward alcove window is no harder to cover than a standard one.

Shift workers or anyone who sleeps during the day will appreciate a genuine blackout option rather than a heavy dimout. The retailer describes this range as blackout, which means it should pass a backlight test through the fabric itself - though bear in mind that no roller, however opaque the fabric, will seal the room entirely at the edges without additional fitting measures.

This range is less suited to bathrooms or kitchens, where a moisture-resistant PVC fabric would be the safer choice. Nor is it the natural pick for a living room where you want daytime visibility; a light-filtering or dimout fabric would give a more useful result in that context.

The colours

24 colours available

The palette of twelve colours is firmly in neutral and near-neutral territory. Whites and off-whites are well represented - Snow White, Bone White, and Cream cover the warm-to-cool white range, with Canvas sitting at a more natural off-white. The grey selection runs from Harbour Grey and Simply Grey through to Warm Stone and Fairview Taupe, picking up the warm stone tones that suit many UK interiors. Titan Carrington Beige extends that warm direction further.

Two colours break from the neutral core: Eclipse Navy provides a deeper, richer blue for rooms that want more visual weight, and Titan Atomic Black takes the blackout premise to its logical conclusion with a flat black finish. Titan Wrought Iron adds a dark charcoal option sitting between the two. The overall palette is coherent and avoids the randomness that sometimes afflicts large roller ranges - if you are fitting multiple rooms and want a family of tones that work together, there is enough here to do that without hunting across different ranges.

Price by your dimensions

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Starting from £28.66, this range sits at the accessible end of the made-to-measure blackout roller market. As with most made-to-measure blinds, price rises with both width and drop; the widget above shows how cost scales across typical window sizes. Larger windows will push the price up more steeply on the width axis than the drop.

How it compares

A plain blackout roller is one of the most competitive product categories in the UK blinds market. Alternatives exist at broadly similar price points across most major online retailers, and in many cases the functional difference between ranges at this price level is marginal - construction is similar and the blackout backing is the key specification.

Where ranges tend to diverge is colour depth and surface finish. A woven-texture blackout fabric will look warmer and more textile-like than a smooth-backed roller; this range's finish is not described in detail by the retailer, so it is worth requesting a sample before ordering for a prominent room where finish matters.

For rooms with unusual thermal requirements - north-facing windows, single glazing, or a conservatory - a cellular or honeycomb blind would outperform any roller on insulation. The Click2shade Complete does not claim a thermal benefit, and a roller's single fabric layer gives only modest draught reduction compared with a structured cellular blind. For most bedrooms, that trade-off is straightforward: the roller gives better colour choice and a cleaner look; the cellular gives better warmth retention.

Fitting and operation

As a standard roller blind, fitting follows the usual pattern - top fix or face fix brackets, with an inside- or outside-recess option depending on your window reveal depth. The made-to-measure format means the blind arrives cut to your specified width. For renters or those on UPVC windows who prefer not to drill, a Perfect Fit frame is the cleaner route, though that requires a sufficient recess depth and is a separate fitting option to check against the retailer's range.

A note on care

Polyester blackout roller fabrics are generally low-maintenance: a monthly pass with a vacuum brush attachment, and spot-cleaning with a damp cloth for marks. Avoid soaking the fabric or applying excessive moisture near the tube end, and keep the fabric away from condensation if the blind sits close to single-glazed glass in winter.