Best Blinds by Room

Choosing the Right Window Dressings by Room

How blinds, plantation shutters and curtains perform in different rooms around the home.

Different rooms create very different conditions for window dressings.

Moisture, humidity, light levels, privacy and everyday use all influence how blinds, window shutters and curtains behave once installed. Some options cope better with steam and splashes, others offer more adjustable light control, while some are better suited to feature windows or lower-use spaces.

The room pages explore how different window dressings perform in real homes, outlining their strengths, limitations and typical use cases to help you understand which options are suited to each space.

What You’ll Find in Each Room Guide

Each room page focuses on how different types of window dressings behave in real homes, rather than making general recommendations.

You’ll see how various blinds, shutters and curtains perform in specific conditions, where they tend to work well, where they may be less suitable and what practical considerations matter most in that space.

This approach is designed to give you a clearer understanding of how each option works in everyday use, so you can make an informed decision based on your room layout and how you use the space.

Our 5★ Google Reviews Speak for Themselves

We’re proud to be trusted by homeowners across Essex for our friendly service, expert fitting and beautiful Made-to-Measure Window Dressings.

John's Blinds Limited
Excellent
Based on 186 reviews
Cathy Lee
Pijus Pran
Can’t fault - Steve installed and was lovely
Fiona Fisher
This is the second time I’ve used John’s blinds and even after all these years I’ve known about them they still produce amazing quality products. The blinds are beautiful and they last forever! Curtain rail is top quality.
Both Sam and Steve were so helpful, knowledgeable and such great workers.
I’ve even recommended them to a friend who has also had them come and do her whole house. Again, great work and amazing feedback from her.
1000% would recommend and will certainly be using them again when we move in a couple of years. Thank you John’s Blinds for taking care of us.
Janine Winter
We are extremely pleased with the service we received from John's Blinds & Curtains. We purchased a roman blind for our kitchen window and perfect fit blinds for our french doors. The quality is superb and the fitting was great. Everyone involved at the company from start to finish were very friendly and helpful. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend!
Katie Curtis
Great service and blinds look great
Dina Mehta
Recently we had our shutters fitted by Matt and Steve. Both very professional hard working and friendly. They absolutely did an excellent job. And we are very happy with the exceptional service that we would highly recommend John's blinds company.
Amanda Hopkins
Lovely shutters and reasonably priced
Reena S
We love to you local independent firms where possible. We did a lot of research online about what we wanted and even called in a few national firms for quotations and suggestions. However, the reviews for John's Blinds were great overall. Booked them for an initial review, and Matt who came was extremely helpful, knowledgeable and actually provided great solutions to two of our windows which other firms had told us was not possible to do. We visited the showroom and again Lorraine and Sue were friendly and helpful. We ordered a mixture of shutters, roller blinds and vertical blinds. Installation of all were at different times due to the production times. We had Matt, Steve and Bob over 3 visits carrying out the installation, they were respectable of our home, clean, helpful and did a fantastic job. The whole experience from our initial call through to completion has been smooth. We wouldn't hesitate in using them again, and highly recommend them.
Denise Asplin
Excellent loving the fixd shutter.
Lovely man called steve done a great job cleaned up after himself.planning on getting more.Thank you.
Shamrock (Shamrock)
What a great bloke Steve is who fitted our blinds very happy with them Steve ran through how they work so friendly and helpful