Blinds By Post's Sheer Blinds UK range offers a made-to-measure pleated blind in a single finish, starting from £97.00. With 1 available, this is a focused option rather than a broad palette - the appeal is in the fabric type and the soft, even light it produces rather than colour variety.
Who it suits
A sheer pleated blind lets almost all available daylight through while diffusing direct glare, which makes it a natural fit for living rooms and dining rooms. The accordion-fold fabric stacks neatly at the top when raised, so you lose little of the window on a bright afternoon.
It is less suited to bedrooms where you need genuine darkness. Sheer fabric sits at the translucent end of the opacity scale - closer to voile than dimout - so anyone relying on the blind to block early-morning light or street lighting will find it falls short. For those rooms, a dimout or blackout pleated fabric would serve better.
Home offices often work well with a sheer pleated blind because it reduces direct sun on a screen without darkening the room. If glare from a south-facing window is the problem, this approach is more practical than curtains or a heavier blind that kills useful daylight.
The colour
1 colour available
The range offers a single finish, Sheer White. White sheers are the standard choice for rooms where you want maximum light diffusion without a colour cast on walls or furniture. The fabric reads as near-neutral in most interior settings - pale modern kitchens, light Scandinavian-style living rooms, and conservatories all suit a white sheer. It will look out of place in a room with a deliberately warm or dark palette, where an ivory or natural-toned fabric would sit more comfortably - though the range does not currently offer those options.
The absence of colour variants makes this a direct, no-deliberation purchase if Sheer White is what you need. If you require a different tone, you would need to look at a separate range.
Price by your dimensions
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The range starts from £97.00 for made-to-measure, which places it at the accessible end of the pleated-blind market. Pleated blinds are generally priced higher than roller blinds of the same size because the folded fabric mechanism is more involved - but entry pricing here remains modest. As with all made-to-measure blinds, larger drops and wider widths will push the cost upward from that starting point.
How it compares
A sheer pleated blind occupies a specific niche: light diffusion with a clean, compact stack. If your priority is thermal performance, a honeycomb (cellular) blind made with a sealed air-pocket structure offers meaningfully better insulation - the pleated format here provides no such benefit. If you want privacy combined with some opacity during the day, a light-filtering roller in a translucent fabric would do a similar job at potentially lower cost and with more colour choice.
Where the pleated format earns its keep is on narrower or awkward windows where a roller's tube and bracket arrangement feels bulky, and in settings where the folded texture appeals visually over a flat roller face. For a conservatory side wall or a small study window where the glass is reasonably shallow, a sheer pleated blind is a tidy, proportionate solution.
Fitting and operation
Pleated blinds fit inside or outside the recess. An inside-recess fit looks cleanest, but you will need adequate recess depth for the top mechanism. Standard cord operation is typical for this type; confirm with Blinds By Post whether a cordless or wand option is available if you are fitting in a room used by children, as UK regulations require cord-safe operation for domestic settings.
The accordion pleats are the one cleaning note worth flagging: dust collects in the folds over time more readily than on a flat roller fabric. A soft brush attachment on a vacuum, run lightly down the pleats, keeps the fabric looking its best between spot-cleans.