The Mood range from Swift Direct Blinds is a made-to-measure vertical blind offered in 2 voile shades, starting from £8.36. It is a sheer, translucent louvre blind built for softening daylight rather than blocking it, with the slats tilting and drawing to one side to suit wide windows, patio doors and conservatory glazing.
Who it suits
Vertical blinds work best across broad expanses of glass, where the louvres can be tilted to angle daylight or drawn fully to the side to clear the view. In a voile fabric the appeal is gentler still: the cloth is translucent, so light passes through and the room stays bright while keeping a degree of daytime privacy. That makes Mood a good fit for living rooms, conservatories and large patio doors where you want diffused light rather than darkness.
Because the louvres tilt and stack to one side, this style handles wide and tall windows that a single roller or roman panel would struggle with. It is not the right choice where you need to darken a room - a voile is sheer by design and will not block light - so a bedroom or media room would want a dimout or blackout fabric in a different style. There is some light leakage where the louvres overlap, which is normal for the type. A practical advantage of vertical blinds is that individual louvres can be replaced if one is damaged, rather than the whole blind, which is useful on a wide patio-door blind where a single louvre takes the most wear. The draw direction can usually be set to suit the room, stacking the louvres to the left, the right or split to either side, so the blind clears the part of the opening you use most.
The colours
2 colours available
The Mood collection is deliberately compact, covering a neutral grey and a clean white between its two shades. Both are voile, so the choice is about which neutral suits the room rather than about opacity: the white reads brighter and more contemporary, the grey a touch softer and cooler. Translucent fabrics in particular can look quite different on a screen against a sunlit window, so it is worth requesting a sample of either shade before committing to a full-sized blind.
Price by your dimensions
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The range sits at an accessible entry point, in line with vertical blinds more generally, which tend to be among the more affordable made-to-measure styles for wide windows. Price is driven mainly by the width and drop you measure, since a vertical blind for a patio door uses considerably more fabric than one for a standard window.
How it compares
Against a roller blind, a voile vertical covers far wider openings and lets you angle the louvres for light and privacy, where a roller is a single flat panel with no tilt. Against a heavier curtain or a dimout blind, Mood trades darkness for a light, airy finish - it filters and softens daylight rather than shutting it out. If your window is wide and your priority is gentle, diffused light, a voile vertical is well suited; if you need to darken the room, a different fabric or style is the better answer.
A note on care
Vertical louvres are simple to keep tidy. Draw them flat and dust each louvre with a soft brush or a vacuum on a low setting; voile fabric is best treated gently to avoid pulling the weave. Spot-clean marks with a barely damp cloth and let the louvres hang to dry fully before tilting them closed. If a single louvre is damaged it can be replaced individually, which keeps the rest of the blind in service.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Carnival 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 this page from £8.36
- Blinds By Post from £12.50
- Blinds Direct from £14.84
- Vertical Blinds Direct from £20.78
- Wilsons Blinds from £24.45
- So Easy Blinds from £44.45
- New Blinds from £64.21
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.