The Ennis range from So Easy Blinds is a made-to-measure vertical blind offered in 6 colours, starting from £51.57. It is a louvre blind: fabric slats hang from a headrail, tilt to set the light level and draw to one side to clear the window. The Ennis cloth is light-filtering, so it softens and diffuses daylight rather than blocking it, and the palette stays within muted blues and greys.
Who it suits
Vertical blinds suit wide windows, patio doors and conservatories better than most styles, because the louvres draw aside like a curtain to open the full aperture and can be angled to manage low sun across a broad pane. The Ennis range fits that brief with a quiet, neutral palette that recedes into a room rather than drawing the eye. The light-filtering cloth keeps a room bright while taking the edge off glare and giving daytime privacy, which makes it a sensible choice for a living room, dining room or home office where you want softened daylight rather than darkness.
If your aim is to black out a bedroom, this is the wrong cloth: light-filtering fabric diffuses rather than blocks, and vertical louvres leave small gaps at the overlaps where some light always leaks through. For a sleeping space you would want a blackout fabric in a different style.
The colours
6 colours available
The Ennis palette is built from soft, understated tones - shades such as Duck Egg sitting in the blue family alongside warm neutral greys like Melton and Cashmere, with further muted shades in Angora, Arran and Lauden. It is a small, coherent collection rather than a broad colour run, so the choice is between closely related muted shades rather than across strong contrasts. That keeps the decision simple and makes the range easy to match to an existing scheme of pale walls, natural textures and soft furnishings, where a quiet blind is meant to sit back rather than announce itself. Colour on a screen and colour filling a window can differ considerably, so request a sample before committing to a full-sized blind, particularly with these close, subtle tones where a small shift in shade is easy to miss online and easier still to regret once a whole window is filled.
Price by your dimensions
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The range is offered with a single standard fitting, so the starting price reflects a straightforward headrail installation. Vertical blinds sit among the more affordable made-to-measure styles for covering a large window, since one blind spans a width that would otherwise need several smaller blinds.
How it compares
Against a roller blind, a vertical gives you tilt as well as draw: you can angle the louvres to admit light at a chosen angle, then pull the whole blind aside to clear the glass, which a flat roller cannot do. Against a horizontal venetian, the vertical louvres handle tall and wide windows more gracefully and are less prone to collecting dust along their length. The trade-off is the overlaps between louvres, which leak a little light, so a vertical is about managed daylight and privacy rather than total darkness. Within the wider vertical category, Ennis is the calmer, light-filtering option for those who want brightness retained.
A note on care
Vertical louvres are simple to keep. Dust them with a soft brush or a vacuum brush attachment along the length of each slat, and spot-clean marks with a damp cloth. One practical advantage of the style is that a single damaged louvre can be replaced on its own rather than the whole blind, so accidental snags or stains need not mean a new blind. Draw the louvres flat before cleaning so you can reach the full face of each one.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Ennis 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:
- Blinds By Post from £11.93
- Blinds Direct from £15.14
- Vertical Blinds Direct from £21.20
- Wilsons Blinds from £24.94
- Shade & Story from £36.90
- So Easy Blinds this page from £51.57
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.