Laura Ashley's blue roman blinds at Terrys Fabrics are a small, focused selection: 2 colourways from the licensed Laura Ashley collection, starting from £24.00. Where the main Laura Ashley roman range at the same retailer runs to well over a hundred colourways across the whole spectrum, this grouping is the blue shortlist - the Aria design in Dark Seaspray and the Candy Stripe design in Newport Blue - for anyone set on the brand and set on blue.

Who it suits

A roman blind rises into soft, stacked fabric folds, so it reads as soft furnishing rather than hardware, and blue is one of the easiest colours to build a calm room around. That points this pairing at living rooms, bedrooms and studies, where a named designer print in a settled blue can anchor the scheme or tie into existing Laura Ashley pieces in the same palette. The opacity across both colourways is standard, so the fabric filters daylight and gives privacy without blacking the room out; for a child's bedroom or a street-facing room that needs real darkness, a blackout-lined range would serve better.

As with any roman, folded fabric is a poor match for kitchens and bathrooms, where steam and splashes settle into the pleats. For the soft rooms it belongs in, the pleated finish and the print do the decorative work together.

The colours

2 colours available

Two named designs, each in a single blue colourway, and usefully different from one another: Candy Stripe in Newport Blue is, as the name says, a stripe, while Aria in Dark Seaspray is a separate Laura Ashley print in a deeper-toned blue. So the choice here is really between two designs rather than two shades of the same fabric. Printed colour and pattern scale are hard to judge from a thumbnail, and a blue can lean warm or cool across a full window, so ordering a sample of either before committing is worthwhile.

Price by your dimensions

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The from-price sits at the same entry point as the wider Laura Ashley roman collection at this retailer, which is consistent for a licensed designer print made up as a roman. A roman blind is priced by the width and drop of the window and the lining it needs, so a larger window costs more and the from-price reflects only the smallest size. Use the figures above for your own measurements when planning a budget.

How it compares

Against the full Laura Ashley roman range at Terrys Fabrics, this is the brand's blue subset: if the colour is fixed but the design is open, these two are the candidates, and if the colour is still open the parent collection offers far more room to move. Against the Laura Ashley rollers at the same retailer, these romans give the softer, more furnished finish - folds rather than a flat panel - at the cost of more fabric stacked at the head of the window. And against plain blue romans generally, the draw here is the named print: you are paying the designer premium for pattern and provenance rather than for the colour alone.

A note on care

Keep the folds fresh with a regular light dusting or a vacuum on its lowest setting with a soft brush, working along the pleats rather than across them. Treat marks promptly with a barely damp cloth and avoid wetting the fabric through, since romans hold their shape with stitched folds and rods that soaking can distort, and printed fabric can water-mark. Raising and lowering the blind now and then helps the folds settle evenly, and keeping it out of steamy rooms protects both the fabric and the print.

The same Laura Ashley designs, at several retailers

Laura Ashley roman blinds are sold by more than one UK retailer, so the same designs turn up under each shop's own range. They differ in construction, colourway and fitting, so it pays to compare on more than price:

  • Swift Direct Blinds from £17.47
  • Blinds By Post from £20.57
  • Terrys Fabrics this page from £24.00

Designs carried by more than one of these retailers include Alfriston, Animalia, Animalia Embroidered, Aria, Awning Stripe, Belvedere, Birtle, Burford Check, Burnham Woven and Burnsall Stripe.

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These are the same designs rather than guaranteed identical blinds - one retailer may weave a jacquard where another prints the pattern, and colourways and fittings vary. Check the specific design, colour and fitting at each retailer before buying.