The Sunset range from Blinds By Post is a made-to-measure vertical blind offered in 10 shades, starting from £12.50. It is the broadest of the vertical collections here, running across warm and cool neutrals in a blackout louvre cloth, aimed at wide windows, patio doors and conservatories where a vertical suits the opening and darkness matters.
Who it suits
A vertical blind hangs in fabric louvres that tilt to control light and draw to one side to clear the window, which makes it a natural fit for wide aspects, patio doors and conservatories. The louvres rotate so you can angle daylight and privacy without fully opening the blind, then stack aside when you want the opening clear. Every shade in Sunset is a blackout fabric, so each louvre is woven to block daylight rather than merely soften it - useful in a bedroom or media room on a wide window where a vertical is the right shape but darkness is still the goal.
It is worth being honest about one limit of the style: even with a blackout cloth, vertical louvres overlap rather than seal, so a little light always escapes at the joins. Sunset blocks far more light than a light-filtering vertical, but it will not match the clean total darkness of a blackout roller fitted tight to the recess. On a wide window or door where a roller would be impractical, it is a strong compromise; for a small window needing absolute blackout, a roller suits better.
The colours
10 colours available
Sunset is a ten-shade neutral collection spanning warm and cool tones: browns (Mink, Mocha), creams (Stone, Mushroom), greys (Storm, Flint), whites (Alabaster, White), an Ash and a true Black. That spread lets you pick the temperature as well as the depth - warmer mink and mocha browns, cooler storm and flint greys, crisp whites, or a full black for the darkest window - rather than settling for a single mid-neutral. With ten options the match to an existing scheme is usually close rather than approximate. Across a wide run of louvres and under changing light, a shade can read differently from how it looks on screen, particularly the browns and greys, so order samples before committing to a full-sized blind.
Price by your dimensions
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Price down 0.5% since 11 Aug. (our checks since 12 Jun)
The standard fitting starts from the entry price shown above, a modest starting point for a made-to-measure vertical. The price for your window depends mainly on its width and drop, and because verticals are commonly specified for wide openings, the figure for a full patio door will sit well above the headline from-price. Use the figures above against your own measurements rather than the starting price alone.
How it compares
Against a roller or roman, a vertical handles wide windows and doors far better, drawing to the side and tilting where a roller only raises and lowers - though a roller fitted tight will out-perform any vertical on true blackout because it has no louvre joins to leak through. Against a venetian, the vertical hangs its slats vertically rather than horizontally, which suits tall and wide openings and doorways where a horizontal stack would be awkward. Within verticals, Sunset is the wider palette: ten blackout neutrals across warm and cool tones, where the narrower vertical collections offer only a couple of shades.
A note on care
Vertical louvres are simple to maintain and, usefully, individually replaceable - if one is damaged you can swap the single louvre rather than the whole blind. Keep them dust-free with a soft brush or a vacuum on a low setting, running down each louvre rather than across. Spot-clean marks with a damp cloth and a mild detergent, testing on a hidden louvre first, and let the fabric dry fully before tilting the blind closed again.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Splash vertical 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 £5.04
- Blinds By Post this page from £5.88
- Swift Direct Blinds from £6.08
- Blinds 2go from £10.75
- Blinds4You from £11.50
- 247 Blinds from £12.30
- Blinds Direct from £14.96
- Order Blinds from £18.90
- Vertical Blinds Direct from £20.94
- Shade & Story from £24.30
- Wilsons Blinds from £24.64
- So Easy Blinds from £29.59
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.