The Silver range at 1Click Blinds is the venetian at its most elemental: metal slats in silver tones, 4 finishes from £9.57, no fabric in sight. This is the blind of rented kitchens, family bathrooms and office corridors, and its virtues are the unglamorous, permanent kind - it wipes clean, it shrugs off steam, and it tilts to any mood of light without complaint. The range is compact, but a blind like this has never needed a long shade card.
Who it suits
A venetian trades in angles. The slats tilt through a full arc, so you can keep daytime privacy while light still rakes in across the ceiling, or flatten them and open up the view - a finer instrument than a roller, which only knows up and down. In metal, the venetian adds its second trick: indifference to moisture. Steam that would eventually speckle a fabric blind, or cooking film that clings to a weave above a hob, sits on a metal slat until a cloth takes it off. That is why kitchens and bathrooms are this blind's natural home, and why offices like it too - silver reads as neutral equipment in almost any room.
Two honest caveats. Even tilted fully shut, a venetian leaks light around its edges and through the cord holes in the slats, so a bedroom that needs real darkness wants a blackout roller or curtains instead. And on a tall window a venetian becomes heavy to raise - tilting stays light work, but if you plan to pull the whole blind up and down daily, a big drop will make you feel it.
The colours
4 colours available
The finishes do their own describing: Pitch Metal sits at the darker end of silver, Lustre Metal at the brighter, more reflective end. That gap matters more than it sounds, because a metallic surface takes its character from whatever light the room throws at it - the same slats can read as soft grey on a cloudy morning and sharply bright in low evening sun. Screens handle metallics worse than any fabric, so if the choice is not already obvious, order samples and tilt them in the actual room before committing.
Price by your dimensions
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The from-price is pinned to the smallest window in the size range, and everything made to measure is priced on width and drop from there. The table above does the arithmetic at your sizes, and it is worth a look even for a modest bathroom pane - small, steamy windows are where this type of blind makes its strongest case.
How it compares
A silver venetian is close to a commodity, and that is the buyer's advantage. The same Silver name appears at five other retailers we track - Blinds4You, Lifestyle Blinds, New Blinds, Order Blinds and So Easy Blinds - and because the product is so standardised, price is one of the few things that genuinely separates the shops. Prices do differ, and our Silver venetian comparison lays the current spread side by side; two minutes there is most of the research a blind like this needs. Within 1Click's own shelf, Silver is the practical metal option. Buyers after warmth in a living room are usually happier with a wooden venetian's broader slats and softer colour, and anyone dressing a bedroom for sleep should step across to a blackout range, because no venetian of any material seals out a summer morning.
A note on care
Care is where this range repays you. Dust with the slats tilted one way, then the other, using a soft cloth or duster - little and often beats the deep clean, because kitchen film takes more shifting once it has set in layers. Grease marks and toothpaste specks lift with a damp cloth and a drop of washing-up liquid; skip abrasive pads and harsh solvents, which can dull the finish for good. Two mechanical habits keep a venetian sweet: never force a slat that has caught on something, since bent metal holds its crease forever, and raise the blind evenly rather than hauling on one side, so the cords wear at the same rate. Do that and this may quietly outlast everything else in the kitchen.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Wooden Venetian 50mm venetian 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:
- Make My Blinds from £5.01
- Unbeatable Blinds from £5.24
- Swift Direct Blinds from £5.49
- Blinds By Post from £6.72
- Wooden Blinds from £7.68
- 247 Blinds from £8.00
- English Blinds from £8.01
- Terrys Fabrics from £8.70
- 1Click Blinds this page from £9.57
- Blinds Direct from £9.98
- Blinds 2go from £10.04
- Wilsons Blinds from £10.04
- Blinds4You from £12.28
- Order Blinds from £17.00
- Shade & Story from £25.00
- New Blinds from £27.02
- So Easy Blinds from £27.51
- Lifestyle Blinds from £28.94
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.