Most plain roller ranges make you choose a fabric first and take whatever opacity it happens to come in. Colourway, Make My Blinds' big plains range, is organised the other way round: the palette leads, and the card is sold in blackout and dimout versions, so the shade and the light level are separate decisions. There are 27 colourways from £9.46, running from soft neutrals like Cloud and Mist to a Postbox red, and the range is a Make My Blinds exclusive among the retailers we track.
Who it suits
Anyone dressing more than one window at a time. The quiet strength of a range built like this is consistency: the same shade family can run through a whole floor of the house while each room gets the opacity its job demands - blackout where sleep happens, dimout where daylight should be softened rather than shut out. Bedrooms and children's rooms take the blackout members; living rooms, kitchens and studies sit happily behind dimout, which holds daytime privacy while keeping the room bright.
Two practical notes before you plan the whole house around it. The blackout and dimout versions are separate listings, so confirm the shade you want comes in the finish you need. And take dimout at its word - it softens light rather than removing it, so a room that must go genuinely dark for sleep belongs with the blackout members, fitted with as little gap at the edges as your window allows.
The colours
27 colours available
The names do what plain-range names should: describe. Cloud and Mist are the soft pale greys, Iron and Charcoal the heavier ones; Beige, Cream and Tan hold the warm, sandy middle of the card. The blue bench runs unusually deep - Navy, Marine, Ocean and Nighttime shade from bright to near-black - and Postbox is exactly the red you are picturing. The spread is the point: this is a range built so that every room in the house can find its shade without leaving the card. As ever with plains, undertones decide everything, so order samples of neighbouring shades together - Cloud against Mist, Navy against Marine - because the difference at a full window is always bigger than the difference on a screen.
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 2 Jun).
The range opens at £9.46, toward the accessible end of made-to-measure rollers, and the figure moves with width and drop from there - the grid above prices your window rather than the smallest one the retailer will cut. The finish matters to the quote too: blackout and dimout members are listed separately, so price the exact member you intend to order rather than assuming the two match. Measure the recess in three places, work from the smallest figures, and decide inside or outside the recess before comparing sizes.
How it compares
Within Make My Blinds, Colourway is the workhorse card - the range you reach for when the brief is a colour and a light level rather than a texture or a print. Its structure is its argument. Elsewhere, the hunt for a navy blackout for the bedroom and a matching navy dimout for the landing can end at two different ranges with two slightly different navies; here it ends on one card, one palette, two finishes. Because no other shop we track stocks the range, there is no cross-shop price check to run - the comparison that matters is internal, against the retailer's other plains, and the deciding vote usually goes to whether your shade needs to exist in both opacities. If it does, Colourway is the tidy answer; if you only ever needed one blind in one finish, almost any plain roller could do the job, and the choice comes back to shade and price.
A note on care
The dimout members ask for the standard roller routine: dust with a soft brush or a vacuum on low suction every few weeks, lift marks with a barely damp cloth rather than rubbing, and let the fabric dry fully lowered before rolling it away. The blackout members deserve one extra courtesy - the coating on the back is what does the darkening, and a sharp crease in it can show as a bright line against the morning sun, so never fold the fabric and keep anything abrasive away from the coated face. Check the chain and brackets are running true every few months, and both finishes will quietly last for years.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Spectrum 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 £8.76
- Make My Blinds this page from £9.46
- Roller Blinds Direct from £12.74
- Blinds By Post from £13.98
- Blinds Direct from £14.01
- Wilsons Blinds from £14.71
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.