Morgan at Unbeatable Blinds is a wooden venetian range in the fullest sense of the naming: every one of its 40 finishes, from £11.04, carries Wooden in its name, and the roll-call reads like a timber yard - Honey, Chestnut, Light Oak, Birch, Smoke, Stone. Two more things surface in the naming before you ever reach a listing: taped versions exist, since the range is sold as Morgan, Morgan Tape and Morgan 50 Tape, and a 50 marker runs through several of the finishes, pointing to a second format alongside the standard one.
Who it suits
A wood-toned venetian is the warmest of the slatted blinds: it gives a window the tilt-and-lift control of a venetian while reading as furniture rather than hardware, which is why the type does so well in living rooms, studies, bedrooms and dining rooms. Tilt shallow to strip glare off a screen, tilt further for privacy, lift the lot for the full view.
The taped versions deserve a proper explanation, because tapes change the character of the blind. Tapes are the woven ladder strips that run down the face of a venetian, covering the cord holes punched through each slat and carrying a colour of their own. They give the blind the banded, dressed look of a plantation shutter, and because they hide the routing holes, a taped venetian closes a little more completely - the pinpricks of light that show through a plain venetian's cord holes disappear behind cloth. As for the 50: a 50 format appears through the naming rather than as a specification we can vouch for, and the useful takeaway is simply that Morgan comes in more than one make-up, taped and untaped among them, so check which version a listing shows before you price it.
One caution that applies to every venetian: slats leak light at their edges and between themselves, so a bedroom that needs real darkness wants a blackout roller behind or instead.
The colours
40 colours available
Oak is the spine of the palette - Light Oak, Satin Oak, Rich Oak, Desert Oak, Ivory Oak and Grey Oak cover the honest mid-timbers through to sun-bleached and silvered looks - flanked by warmer names such as Honey, Chestnut and Vanilla, and a painted-feel end that runs White, Stone, Light Grey, Dark Grey, Smoke and Black. Birch sits pale and Scandinavian in the middle. The greyed timbers are the quietly useful ones: Grey Oak and Smoke bridge rooms that want wood's texture without its orange, which is where a great many modern schemes actually live. Woodgrain is exactly what a screen flattens, so treat the thumbnails as a shortlist and order samples - the difference between Honey and Light Oak, or Stone and Ivory Oak, is an undertone you will only trust in your own light.
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Wood-look venetians ask a little more than the plainest slatted blinds, but Morgan starts at the accessible end for the style. Cost climbs with both dimensions - extra drop adds slats, extra width lengthens them - and the taped make-ups are their own lines, so run the table at your measurements for the version you mean to buy rather than settling for the entry figure.
How it compares
Untaped, Morgan is a straightforward wooden venetian; taped, it is the nearest a blind gets to the plantation-shutter look without the joinery, and unlike a shutter it still lifts fully clear of the glass. Against the soft types the usual trade applies - a roman brings fabric warmth, a roller brings simplicity, neither tilts. The range is an Unbeatable Blinds exclusive among the retailers we track. The trade-off is that there is no cross-shop comparison to run: no other shop lists the range, so its price cannot be second-opinioned the way a widely travelled fabric can. The upside is a range the identikit catalogues do not carry - a palette this deep in timber finishes, with taped variants on top, is a genuinely broad wooden offer rather than a copy-paste strip of oaks.
A note on care
Treat the slats like furniture rather than fabric. Dust regularly - tilt the blind closed one way, run a soft dry cloth along the slats, then reverse the tilt for the other faces - and keep water to a minimum: a barely damp cloth for marks, dried promptly, never a soaking. The tapes want a gentler hand still; spot-clean them with a little mild detergent on a barely damp cloth and avoid scrubbing, which roughens the weave. Raise the blind evenly rather than hauling on one side, and let the slats dry fully before closing them flat after any cleaning.