The Vivi Blinds UK range is a made-to-measure roller blind sold by Blinds By Post, offered in 4 finishes with prices starting from £15.00. The palette sits squarely in the grey spectrum - a safe, adaptable territory for anyone furnishing a room that needs to work with multiple colour schemes.

Who it suits

Roller blinds in neutral grey tones are a practical fit for living rooms, home offices, and bedrooms where the priority is managing light without committing to a decorative statement. Grey sits well against white woodwork, exposed brick, and most painted walls, which makes the Vivi range a reasonable starting point if you are redecorating and the final wall colour is not yet fixed.

For bedrooms where blackout is essential, the range's opacity class is not stated in the retailer's listing, so confirm with Blinds By Post before ordering whether the fabric blocks light fully. A roller that looks dark in a swatch can still admit a glow around the edges, and for a child's room or a shift worker's bedroom, that distinction matters.

Kitchens and bathrooms call for moisture-resistant fabrics - if you are considering this range for either room, check with the retailer whether the fabric tolerates humidity. Standard polyester roller fabrics cope with occasional steam, but prolonged exposure in a kitchen directly above a hob is a different matter.

The colours

4 colours available

The four finishes - Glow, Jada, Senator, and Stone - are all variations within a grey palette rather than distinctly different colour families. Stone reads as the warmest of the group, leaning towards a greige that picks up beige undertones. Glow and Jada occupy the cooler middle ground, while Senator is the darkest option and the most likely to read as a true charcoal in natural light.

Because the finishes are closely related, the Vivi range rewards ordering fabric samples before committing. Blinds By Post typically offers samples; confirm availability on the retailer's site. On screen, differences between adjacent grey tones are hard to judge reliably.

Price by your dimensions

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At a from-price under £16, the Vivi range sits at the accessible end of the made-to-measure roller market. Small windows - a bathroom, a cloakroom, or a narrow landing - will land near that floor price. Larger widths and longer drops will increase the cost in the proportions the grid above shows. Made-to-measure pricing scales primarily with area, so a wide bay window or a tall kitchen window will be noticeably more.

How it compares

Four finishes in a single colour family is a compact offering. If your scheme requires a warmer neutral - cream, linen, or taupe - or a bolder contrast colour, you would need to look beyond this range to one with a broader palette.

The roller format itself is the right choice for most standard windows: it stacks cleanly onto the tube when raised, takes up minimal depth in the recess, and is straightforward to operate. If the window is wide - a bi-fold or patio door span, for instance - vertical blinds are a more practical option, as a wide roller can become heavy and sag slightly off the horizontal when half-raised.

For rooms where thermal performance is a priority, a cellular or honeycomb blind will outperform any roller fabric. Rollers do reduce convection from the glass slightly, but the insulating effect is modest compared with the sealed air-pocket structure of a cellular blind. If your windows are single-glazed or older double-glazed units and heating cost is a concern, it is worth weighing that trade-off against the Vivi's lower entry price.

A note on care

Polyester roller fabrics - which describes most ranges in this category - are generally straightforward to maintain. A monthly pass with a vacuum brush attachment keeps dust from settling into the weave. For marks, a damp cloth with mild soap, applied without soaking the fabric, handles most stains. Avoid wetting the mechanism at the top; the tube and cassette housing are not designed to get wet.

Likely the same fabric, at other retailers

Vivi roller 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:

  • Swift Direct Blinds from £14.39
  • Blinds By Post this page from £15.00
  • So Easy Blinds from £73.41

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.

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