The Cotswold range from 247 Blinds is a made-to-measure roller blind offered in 6 shades, starting from £30.50. A roller is the simplest blind style - a flat panel of fabric on a tube that pulls straight down - and this collection keeps to a tight, neutral palette built around greys and whites with a single black, so it slots into most rooms without competing with the decor.
Who it suits
A roller blind suits anyone who wants a clean, uncomplicated covering with no slats to tilt and no folds to gather. The Cotswold fabrics are light-filtering rather than blackout, so they soften and diffuse daylight while keeping a degree of privacy, which makes them a sensible choice for living rooms, kitchens and home offices where you want to take the edge off glare without shutting the room down completely. They are fitted with a perfect-fit frame, a no-drill system that clips into the window bead, so they are particularly well suited to uPVC windows and bifold doors where you would rather not put screws into the frame.
If your priority is a fully darkened bedroom, a light-filtering roller in any of these shades is the wrong tool - it will dim the room but not black it out, and a dedicated blackout fabric would serve you better.
The colours
6 colours available
The palette is deliberately restrained and neutral. Greys lead the range - Marble Grey, Pebble Grey and Silverton Grey give a graded run from pale to mid tone - alongside two whites in Cosmic White and Ghost White, and a single deep black in Ebony. That spread covers the most common briefs for a roller: a soft neutral grey for a contemporary room, a clean white to keep a window bright, or the black for a sharper, more defined frame to the glass. Because the shades are close in character, they coordinate easily across several windows in the same room. Colour on a screen and colour filling a window can differ, so order a sample before committing to a full-sized blind, particularly when matching an existing grey or white scheme.
Price by your dimensions
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Price around its usual level (checked since 4 Jun).
The range sits at an accessible entry point, in line with roller blinds more broadly, which are generally among the more affordable made-to-measure styles. Price tracks the size of your window, so the figure above adjusts to the dimensions you enter rather than a single headline number.
How it compares
Against a venetian or a vertical blind, the Cotswold roller trades adjustable slats for sheer simplicity - there is nothing to tilt, just a single up-and-down action - which is what makes it the easiest style to live with and to clean. Against a roman blind, the roller reads flatter and more utilitarian; a roman gives soft horizontal folds and a more decorative, fabric-led look if that is what the room wants. The perfect-fit frame here is a real point of difference from a standard roller: it avoids drilling and holds the blind close to the glass, which works well on uPVC and on doors that need the covering to move with them.
A note on care
Roller fabrics are among the easiest blinds to keep clean. Wipe the panel with a soft, dry or barely damp cloth to lift dust and light marks; avoid soaking the fabric, which can leave tide lines as it dries. Roll the blind down fully so you can reach the whole panel, and let it dry completely before rolling it back up. The perfect-fit frame can be lifted out of the window bead if you need to clean the surround behind it.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Cotswold 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:
- English Blinds from £14.62
- 247 Blinds this page from £30.50
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.