The Hanson is a blackout panel blind sold by So Easy Blinds, spanning 13 colourways and priced from £116.34. Panel blinds are a specialist format - large flat fabric panels that slide on a top track - and this range leans into the format's main strength: covering very wide openings with a clean, flat face of fabric. The retailer describes the fabric as blackout, so anyone needing genuine darkness at a wide window or patio door will want to look here.

Who it suits

Panel blinds are most at home on wide openings: patio doors, bifold door recesses, and very wide bay windows where a single roller or venetian blind would span an unworkable width. They also work as room dividers in open-plan spaces where you want to soften a boundary without a fixed partition. The Hanson's blackout fabric makes it a reasonable choice wherever light control matters alongside that wide-span coverage - a wide bedroom window, for example, or a home cinema wall.

Be realistic about where panel blinds don't belong. A standard single window, even a large one, is usually better served by a roller, roman, or venetian. Panel blinds stack to one side when open, which means you lose some of the glass area even when the blind is fully retracted. If your opening is less than about 1.5m wide, a different blind type will almost certainly suit better.

It is worth noting that blackout fabric eliminates light transmission through the material itself - but panel blinds, like any non-flanged blind, do not seal the edges. If you need complete darkness in a room, consider pairing with side-return curtains or a face-fit bracket arrangement that minimises the gap at each edge.

The colours

13 colours available

The Hanson palette runs from light neutrals to deep, saturated tones. Sand, Shell, Honey, and Astor sit at the lighter end - calm, warm neutrals that work in rooms where you want the blind to recede. Dusk and Ballet add soft mid-range warmth. At the cooler end, Denim, Marine, and Nori push into blue and teal territory, while Graphite, Midnight, and Shadow give the range proper dark options. Chilli stands out as the only warm-red colourway in the group.

The spread of thirteen colours means there is genuine variety here rather than minor variations on a single theme. Neutrals and dark tones both have multiple options, which is useful if your room has a specific scheme to match. No variants are flagged as premium-priced; the from-price applies across the range.

Price by your dimensions

Made to measure from £116.34. Check So Easy Blinds for the price at your exact window size.

With a from-price of £116.34, the Hanson sits in the mid-range for panel blinds - a format that is inherently more expensive than a comparable roller blind because of the multi-panel track system. Made-to-measure panel blinds are priced by the total fabric area across all panels, so larger openings will cost proportionally more; the from-price reflects a modest starting size. Confirm the exact panel configuration you need with So Easy Blinds at the point of ordering.

How it compares

For wide openings, the main alternative to a panel blind is a vertical blind. Verticals share the same sliding-panel logic but use narrow fabric vanes rather than wide flat panels - they tend to give a more adjustable light control via vane rotation, but have a commercial look that doesn't suit every interior. If the opening is a standard domestic width and you are after blackout, a roller blind on an extended bracket or a pair of rollers on a dual bracket is usually simpler and more cost-effective than a panel system.

Within the panel category, the Hanson's advantage is the breadth of colourways - thirteen is a wide selection, giving it more decorative flexibility than smaller ranges. If blackout is not required and you want softer light filtering at a wide opening, a light-filtering panel fabric would be a more appropriate choice.