The Stirlo is a made-to-measure roller blind sold by Blinds By Post, available in 21 colour options and starting from £6.00. Its standout quality is the breadth of its colour range - fourteen distinct finishes that take the palette well beyond the usual beige-and-grey defaults, covering everything from earthy neutrals to genuinely bold accent tones. For anyone who wants a plain roller that actually matches a decorating scheme rather than approximates it, this range is worth a look.
Who it suits
Roller blinds are the most versatile blind type available: a single piece of fabric on a tube, pulled down by chain or cord, that lies flat against the window when lowered. They work in most rooms, require minimal recess depth for an inside fit, and are among the simpler blinds to install. The Stirlo's broad colour selection makes it useful wherever you need a specific tone rather than settling for whatever plain shades happen to be available.
The opacity of the Stirlo fabric is not stated by Blinds By Post, so you should confirm the light-control class directly with the retailer before ordering. This matters most for bedrooms, where you may need a blackout or dimout grade to manage early morning light - particularly relevant from spring onwards when UK dawn arrives progressively earlier. A light-filtering fabric gives privacy without darkness, which is fine for a living room or home office, but will not do the job in a bedroom where you need genuine darkness.
For living rooms, the Stirlo works as a practical and colour-forward option. A well-chosen colour from the range can add warmth or contrast without the visual weight of a patterned blind. In a home office, a lighter shade in dimout or light-filtering keeps glare off screens while keeping the room bright. For children's rooms, confirm the operating mechanism meets current cord-safety requirements - UK regulations require blinds sold for domestic use to be cord-safe, and the retailer should be able to confirm the safety specification for this range.
This is not the obvious choice for bathrooms or kitchens unless the fabric is specifically rated for moisture resistance. Standard polyester roller fabrics can be damaged by sustained steam or grease, so check with the retailer whether any Stirlo variant carries a wipe-clean or moisture-tolerant specification before fitting it near a hob or shower.
The colours
21 colours available
The fourteen finishes cover a wide temperature range and several distinct colour families. Neutrals and near-neutrals: Oat Beige, Oyster Cream, Porcelain White, and Whisper Grey provide the workhorses of the range - colours that fit almost any room without assertion. Steel Grey and Onyx Black add darker neutral options for rooms with a more graphic decorating scheme.
The warmer accent colours - Scarlett Red, Hot Pink, and Primrose Yellow - are less common in budget plain roller ranges and give the Stirlo some reach into rooms that need a bold window treatment. On the cooler side, Duck Egg Blue, Royal Blue, and Sloe Purple cover three distinct blue-to-purple steps. Finally, Olive Green and Vine Green offer two greens at different saturations: Olive is a muted, earthy tone while Vine reads as a more saturated mid-green.
All fourteen finishes appear to share the same from-price, so there are no premium-tier variants in this range - the cost of each colour is the same.
Price by your dimensions
Made to measure from £6.00. Check Blinds By Post for the price at your exact window size.
The from-price of £6.00 places the Stirlo at the entry-level end of the made-to-measure roller market. This reflects the basic construction of the range - a plain fabric roller without a cassette housing. As with all made-to-measure blinds, the price rises with width and drop; wider and taller windows will cost proportionally more. The retailer rounds to standard size increments when calculating the quote, so a recess measurement that falls between sizes will be rounded up to the next standard width.
How it compares
Plain roller fabrics at entry-level prices are available from most UK blind retailers, and construction quality between comparable ranges at this price point tends to be similar. Where the Stirlo is genuinely useful is in the colour range: fourteen options including real accent colours gives considerably more choice than many plain budget rollers, which often offer five or six neutrals and nothing bolder.
If you need blackout performance rather than colour choice, a roller with an explicitly blackout-rated fabric would be a more reliable starting point - the Stirlo's opacity is unconfirmed. If you want a neater appearance when the blind is raised, a cassette roller - which encloses the tube and rolled fabric in a top housing - gives a cleaner overhead look at a modest price premium. And if you want a more decorative window treatment altogether, a Roman blind in a textured or patterned fabric will give a softer, more layered appearance than any flat roller can.