The Hayden Light Filtering Vertical Blinds from So Easy Blinds is a made-to-measure fabric vertical in 11 colours, starting from £48.44. The range sits in firmly practical territory - plain-coloured polyester vanes that manage daylight without blocking it - and the breadth of the palette makes it a reasonable fit for rooms where you want control but not darkness.

Who it suits

Vertical blinds are at their most useful on wide openings and patio doors, where a horizontal blind would be unwieldy and a roller too narrow to span the gap cleanly. The Hayden follows that logic. A conservatory, a wide bay, or a glazed door onto a garden are natural homes for it.

Light-filtering opacity means the vanes diffuse daylight rather than block it. That is a useful quality in a living room or dining room where you want softened afternoon light and some screen privacy without the room going dark. It is less useful in a bedroom where you need genuine darkness - for that room, a blackout fabric or a blackout lining would be more appropriate, and the Hayden is not that.

Kitchens and bathrooms are worth considering with a caveat. Stiffened polyester vanes cope with some humidity, but the retailer does not specify this range as moisture-rated, so in a steam-heavy bathroom a PVC vane or a moisture-resistant roller would be a safer choice.

The colours

11 colours available

The eleven colours divide roughly into neutrals, cool tones, and two deeper anchors. On the neutral side, Whisper, Mist, and Harmony sit in pale off-white and cream territory - useful for rooms where the blind should disappear rather than feature. Warmth and Honey lean towards soft ochre and gold, a warmer option for south-facing rooms or wood-heavy interiors.

The cooler end of the palette includes Sky (a light blue), Fern (a muted green), and Heritage (a warm mid-tone that the category tags suggest sits in earthy-heritage territory). Shadow and Empire push darker - Shadow reads as a mid-to-deep grey from the category tags, while Midnight is the deepest option and the one most likely to make a visual statement.

The spread is genuinely varied. This is not eleven versions of the same greige. Whether you are working around an existing room scheme or choosing a colour to anchor one, there is enough range here to be practical.

Price by your dimensions

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With a from-price just under fifty pounds, the Hayden is in the accessible-to-mid bracket for a made-to-measure vertical. Pricing for made-to-measure blinds rises with size, so the entry figure applies to the smaller end of the size range; a wide patio-door blind will sit higher. That is standard practice across the market - the grid above shows what your specific dimensions would cost.

How it compares

Against other light-filtering verticals, the Hayden's main selling point is range: eleven colours is more than many comparable ranges offer, giving you a genuine palette to work with rather than a handful of safe options. The trade-off is that the light-filtering opacity class is fixed - if you want the same vane format in a blackout or dimout weight, you would need to look at a different range.

For those who want more precise light control, a venetian blind with adjustable slat tilt can shade at angles a vertical cannot manage. Verticals are better across wide spans; venetians are more flexible in narrower windows. If thermal performance is the main goal, a cellular or honeycomb blind will outperform any single-layer fabric on insulation, though it will not span a patio door in the same way.

Fitting and operation

Vertical blinds fit to a top track that is fixed above the window or to the ceiling of the recess. The vanes rotate to open and slide along the track to stack to one side or split in the centre. So Easy Blinds sells made-to-measure, so you specify your exact width and drop rather than cutting down a stock size. Standard advice applies: measure the recess width for an inside fit, or the wall-to-wall span plus any overlap you want for an outside fit.

Vanes are weighted at the bottom and linked by a chain to stop them swinging in draughts - a standard feature on fabric verticals and present here. The linking chain keeps the vane bottoms in line and reduces movement near open windows or doors.

Likely the same fabric, at other retailers

Hayden 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:

  • Swift Direct Blinds from £7.66
  • Blinds By Post from £10.00
  • So Easy Blinds this page from £48.44

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.

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