Sueno is Spanish for sleep - strictly sueño, but the blind trade travels light on accents - and New Blinds has named this range with unusual honesty, because every variant on the card is titled Sueno Blackout. It is the bedroom counterpart to Seclusion, the retailer's privacy roller, and it keeps the same three-way structure: a standard roller, a clip-in perfect fit version, and an electric wing that runs from mains-powered 230v blinds to Somfy battery motors. There are 24 colourways from £37.96, and the range is a New Blinds exclusive among the retailers we track.
Who it suits
Anyone buying against the light. Bedrooms are the obvious posting, with shift workers and small children the classic hard cases, and a coated blackout cloth is the right tool for all of them; our blackout guide sets out what the format genuinely delivers. The make-ups then tune the darkness. A standard roller hung in the recess always leaks a little at its edges; the perfect fit version clips into the beading of a uPVC window and hugs the glass, narrowing exactly those gaps, which makes it the quiet overachiever of the range for sleep. The electric versions answer comfort and awkwardness in one: a motorised blackout on a bedroom window means the room wakes when you choose, worked from the pillow, and the XL electric cuts take on the wide glass a chain would labour over. Mains 230v models suit a planned wiring job; the battery versions, including the Somfy-branded ones, retrofit without an electrician.
The colours
24 colours available
Five true shades run across the card: Earth, Storm, Fine Cream, Pebble Grey and Soft White, with a plain White surfacing in the XL electric cut. The names read like a walking holiday and the palette behaves accordingly - warm ground tones at one end, weather greys at the other, nothing that will argue with a bedroom scheme. That reticence is typical of blackout ranges: the cloth is bought for what it blocks, not for what it shows. Two practical notes all the same: a blackout coating makes colours read denser and flatter at the window than any screen suggests, and pale shades block the light just as well as dark ones, since the coating does the work rather than the dye. Samples first, as ever.
Price by your dimensions
Enter your window size. We round up to the next standard size, which matches how the retailer actually quotes you.
No price movement in our checks since 4 Jul.
The from-price belongs to the standard roller at its smallest size. The perfect fit and electric versions are their own listings with their own arithmetic - the clip-in frame is part of the price of one, the motor the large step in the other - and width and drop climb the figure from there in the usual made-to-measure way. Put your actual window against the table above, and if you are pricing an electric version, decide between mains and battery power first, because they are different products rather than options on one.
How it compares
No cross-retailer price check exists here: the range is a New Blinds exclusive among the retailers we track, which cuts both ways in the usual manner - nothing to haggle against, but a combination of coated cloth, clip-in format and this much motor choice is not something the identikit catalogues carry. The comparison that matters sits in the same shop. Seclusion is Sueno's privacy sibling, the same three make-ups around a weave that screens the window while keeping the room bright, and the pair divide the day between them: Seclusion for living spaces that want daylight without an audience, Sueno for the rooms that sleep. Dressing a whole house from the two cards is less eccentric than it sounds when one retailer cuts both to matching formats.
A note on care
Blackout cloth earns gentle habits. The coating on the back is what does the darkening, so blot marks with a barely damp cloth rather than scrubbing, keep solvents and soaking away from it, and let the blind dry fully lowered before it is rolled - a damp roll invites mildew and can mark the coating against itself. Keep the roll winding true, squaring the fabric up promptly if it creeps towards one end, because a creased blackout shows every crease against the morning light. The electric versions want only sensible upkeep: batteries in the handset, the blind's own battery charged on the maker's schedule, and an electrician rather than an enthusiast for anything on the mains side.