Most venetian ranges treat colour as an afterthought - a strip of whites, a few greys, perhaps a token blue. Galaxy at Unbeatable Blinds inverts that. It is a made-to-measure venetian in 41 colourways from £9.34, and the palette is the point: blues in six distinct depths, matt and gloss finishes sitting side by side, and shades like Peach and Violet that most slatted blinds never attempt. If a venetian has always struck you as hardware rather than decoration, this is the range built to change your mind.
Who it suits
A venetian earns its place through control. The slats tilt to any angle, so you can block a neighbour's sightline while still lighting a worktop, cut glare off a screen without losing the day, or lift the whole blind clear of the glass. That makes the type a natural for kitchens, studies and street-facing rooms - anywhere the light and the outlook change hour by hour.
What Galaxy adds is the option to make that control colourful. A coloured venetian works where the window is part of the scheme rather than a backdrop: a child's room, a kitchen picking up an accent from tiles or units, a hallway that can carry a stronger shade than the rooms off it. Two honest caveats. Slatted blinds always let some light creep between and around the slats, so a bedroom that must go truly dark wants a blackout roller fitted tight to the recess. And a strong colour at the window is a commitment in a way a white one is not - a Royal Blue blind will still be Royal Blue after the next repaint - which is exactly why samples matter here more than usual.
The colours
41 colours available
The blues are the depth story: Baby Blue, Sky Blue, Light Blue, Blue, Royal Blue and Navy Blue run from nursery-pale to near-ink, an unusual amount of room to manoeuvre within a single family - enough to match a scheme rather than approximate it. The finish is the second decision: several shades carry a Gloss marker, Beige Gloss, Black Gloss and Teal Gloss among them, and a gloss slat behaves differently from a matt one, catching and bouncing light so the blind reads brighter and a touch more polished where matt sits quieter. The conventional end is properly covered too - Cream, Ivory, Brown, Dark Brown and Black - with Peach and Violet for rooms that want the window to do some talking. Gloss especially rewards sampling: a reflective finish shifts with the light through the day in a way no thumbnail can show.
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The range starts at the accessible end for a made-to-measure venetian, and the cost climbs with both width and drop - a taller window needs more slats, a wider one longer runs of them. Use the table above at your own measurements rather than leaning on the from-price alone.
How it compares
Against the soft blind types, the trade is structure for softness: a roller or roman gives fabric warmth and simpler lines, but neither tilts - with a venetian you adjust the light without clearing the window. Against a vertical, the venetian suits standard windows, where a vertical wants a wide span or a patio door to justify itself. Galaxy's real distinction, though, is scarcity: the range is an Unbeatable Blinds exclusive among the retailers we track. The trade-off is that you cannot cross-shop it - no second retailer cuts the same range, so there is no price comparison to run for your window. The upside is a range the identikit catalogues do not carry: a venetian palette this deep, with matt and gloss variants of the same idea, is not something you will see repeated from shop to shop.
A note on care
Slats collect dust on their top faces, so tilt the blind closed one way and dust along the slats with a soft cloth, then reverse the tilt and do the other side. A barely damp cloth lifts marks; avoid soaking the blind or reaching for anything abrasive, and let the slats dry before closing them flat. Check occasionally that the blind hangs level, and raise it evenly rather than hauling on one side, which keeps the cords wearing at the same rate. One small habit for the shinier shades: gloss shows fingermarks a little more readily than matt, so the quick wipe-down is worth doing more often where hands reach the slats - around a kitchen window especially.