{"id":2759,"date":"2021-11-17T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2023-12-05T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T21:33:47","slug":"what-blinds-are-best-for-the-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/ask-an-expert\/what-blinds-are-best-for-the-bedroom\/","title":{"rendered":"What blinds are best for the bedroom?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What blinds are best for the bedroom? For many people, the correct answer to this is \u201cblinds that keep the sun out until you\u2019re good and ready to see it.\u201d For me on the other hand, it\u2019s \u201cblinds with glow in the dark stars on them<\/a>\u201d which somehow don\u2019t annoy me when I\u2019m sleeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a number of different things that can dictate what blinds are best for the bedroom of any individual sleeper, and aesthetic considerations and how you want your bedroom to look is an important part of this too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this blog post, I\u2019ll cover everything you didn\u2019t know you needed to know about blinds for bedrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do blinds look good in bedrooms?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yes, though obviously different blinds will suit different types of bedrooms. If your general theme is lots of velvet, mood lighting, and gold leaf, you\u2019re probably going to want to swerve away from a modern-looking white faux-wood blind in favour of an opulent Roman blind, whereas if your bedroom is light, airy, and minimalistic, the opposite would likely apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Window blinds for bedrooms come in a huge range of types; there are no blinds that can\u2019t work in bedrooms in terms of function or coping with the vagaries of their environment. This means that when it comes to the type or style of blind, the sort of colours you choose it in, patterns and designs for some options, and the trims or controls that you want, the world of bedroom blinds<\/a> is your oyster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing I would say on a style note (and others are free to disagree) is that blinds come in more or less every style you can think of, from period and traditional to minimalistic or futuristic; but this is less true for curtains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtains certainly come in a range of styling options for things like the pleat pattern or way they fall, the hooks or tapes at the top, and whether or not you have a pelmet and\/or tie backs and how they look, but also curtains do kind of look a bit dated (regardless of style or theme) in certain types of bedrooms, chiefly those that are modern in styling themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One last thought if you really can\u2019t decide which side of the curtains versus blinds fence you fall on; you can always have both, as in, blinds inside of the window recess and curtains (or decorative voiles) outside of it. This is also one way to ensure 100% blockage of external light! On which note\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What type of blinds are best for bedrooms if light wakes me up?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The really short (and probably not so useful) answer to this is blackout blinds<\/a>, but I\u2019m sure that exactly 99.9% of the UK probably already knows this, so I do feel like master of the flaming obvious for stating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those that don\u2019t know about blackout blinds, they\u2019re blinds that are made to block external light from seeping though their fabric\/material (and that also stop light from inside leaking out and contributing to light pollution too).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u201cblackout blinds\u201d doesn\u2019t refer to a model or style of blinds per se; it refers to blinds that have sun-deflecting superpowers either thanks to their material\u2019s innate lack of light-get-through-ability (such as say, blinds made of solid materials like wood) or because they\u2019re made with a special blackout lining or coating to power up their performance in this respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any type of blinds can be made in blackout options; some blinds are blackout blinds by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n