The Hayworth is a made-to-measure blackout panel blind sold by So Easy Blinds, aimed at wide window openings, sliding doors, and patio doors where a conventional roller or venetian would struggle. It comes in 11 finishes, with prices starting from £116.34.

Who it suits

Panel blinds are a specialist product and the Hayworth is best thought of that way. If you have a standard single window, a roller or roman blind will serve you better at lower cost. Where panel blinds come into their own is across wide spans - patio doors, bi-fold door openings, conservatory side walls, or any window wider than roughly 180cm. The Hayworth's blackout fabric also makes it a reasonable candidate for bedroom use in those formats, assuming you need genuine light blocking rather than a soft dimout.

As a room divider, panel blinds can work well in open-plan spaces where you want to section off a dining area or home office without a fixed partition. Bear in mind the retailer describes this range as blackout, which suits that application if you want visual separation alongside light control, though edge-light will always be present however good the fabric opacity.

The Hayworth is not suited to bathrooms or kitchens unless the fabric is specified as moisture-tolerant - the per-range description does not make that claim, so check with So Easy Blinds before ordering for a humid room.

The colours

11 colours available

The Hayworth palette runs to eleven finishes spanning a useful spread of neutrals and mid-tones. The warmer end is represented by Warmth, Honey, and Heritage - the kind of tones that read as beige-to-tan against an off-white wall. The cooler neutrals include Whisper, Mist, and Harmony, which sit closer to soft grey and pale stone. For rooms that need a stronger presence, Shadow, Empire, and Midnight move into deeper grey and near-black territory. Sky adds a muted blue option, and Fern rounds the palette out with a soft green.

The spread is genuinely varied rather than twelve versions of the same mid-grey. If you are working with warm timber floors or earthy plasterwork, the Warmth-to-Heritage end will sit more comfortably. Cooler Scandi-adjacent rooms tend to work better with the Whisper or Mist end of the palette. Midnight and Shadow are solid choices where a window wall needs to recede rather than draw attention.

Price by your dimensions

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Panel blinds are priced differently to single-window blinds because each panel covers a portion of the overall opening, and the number of panels you need scales with the width you are covering. The Hayworth's from-price reflects the cost of a single panel at a smaller configuration. For a full patio door setup you should expect to price out the full width and panel count before committing. The starting figure places this in the mid-range for made-to-measure panel blinds rather than at the budget end.

How it compares

Within panel blinds, the Hayworth is differentiated by its blackout specification - not all panel blind ranges offer full opacity, and many are light-filtering or dimout only. If the priority is blocking early morning light through a wide glass door, the blackout fabric is a meaningful distinction.

If you need the same blackout result on a standard window, a blackout roller blind will almost always be less expensive and easier to fit than a panel blind solution. Panel blinds also stack to one side (or both sides) of the opening when fully open, which means they reduce usable daylight width to some degree - worth factoring in for south-facing doors where you want full light on winter days. A vertical blind offers a similar wide-span solution with vane-by-vane light control, though the aesthetic sits closer to an office environment than a domestic one.

Fitting and operation

Panel blinds hang from a ceiling- or wall-mounted track, with each fabric panel suspended from gliders that slide along the track. Fitting is more involved than a standard roller bracket install - the track needs to be precisely levelled and long enough to accommodate both the panels and the stacking space when they are open. If you have not fitted a panel blind before, it is worth reading the installation guide thoroughly before ordering, or planning for a professional fitting.