Howard Blinds Berkshire – Leading Supplier of Blinds In Berkshire

Howards Blinds have been growing as company over the last 18 years. We specialise in fitting top quality blinds of all types window blinds shutters and awnings. We cover a wide area of the home counties including Berkshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire and Hampshire.

As well as the main types of blinds such as roller blinds, venetian blinds and vertical blinds we also specialise in bespoke blinds and awnings. Our leading product is the perfect fit blind range. These revolutionary blinds just clip in and require no drilling for fitting. They are suitable for most modern window and are ideal for tilt and turn windows and juliet balconies. There is also a perfect fit roof blinds system for conservatories that is quite brilliant.
Awnings are an easy way to create a room in your garden at the press of a button. You can provide a shady area for sitting under and for enjoying a family meal in the evening. The cover of the patio awning also gives protection from summer showers.
Call us on 01344 452485 or 01491 413588 for more details.

Sloping Vertical Blind for Home Extension in Winkfield

This Home Extension was a bit of a challenge to fit blinds to because of the design of the window. In the end we fitted three blinds to get the best coverage over the glass. The main rectangular part of the window has a standard rectangle vertical blind. The sloping section is made as a separate blind. You can see that each louvre is a different length. We cut these by hand as our vertical cutting jig can’t cope with all the different lengths.

The small end right hand section of the window was done separately due to the way the door was positioned in the glass frames. The fabric was an 89mm (3.5″) jacquard fabric called Chenille Cream and gives good shade from the sun but doesn’t make the room too dark.

All the blinds draw back and tilt although in daily use I am sure only the main blind is operated. The angle of this sloping vertical blind is quite small. For really steep angles we can supply special hangers that have a universal joint to accomodate the angle.

Vertical Blinds at Highwood Primary School Woodley

We fitted these Vertical blinds to 5 rooms at Highwood Primary School, Woodley last week. They have had a number of rooms refurbished and we were putting in one of the last elements of the refurb with these blinds.

These are in 127mm Vertical Fabric (5″) in Certex Dark Green. The headrail is our Monarch Headrail which is superb in heavy duty commercial premises such as schools, colleges and offices.

One of the pictures shows how you can have louvres of different length on one blind. This accomodated the kitchen work counter in the meeting room.

The fixing was top fix into plasterboard ceiling. We used special metal plasterboard fixing plugs to ensure an effective and long lasting fit.

Vertical Blinds fitted in a Home Gym in Woking

These Vertical blinds are made of a fabric that is suitable for humid conditions such as those found in a home gym. The fabric is 100% polyester and will not change its character no matter how much sweat the gym users work up.

 The finish to this fabric is a blue metallic which fits in very well with all the fitness machines. The vertical blind fabric is called Topaz Steel and comes from our huge range of 1200 fabrics. As well as plain fabrics we can fit Faux Suede, Jacquard, and specialist blackout vertical blind fabrics to suit any window.

The headrail is our standard wide bodied Monarch track. This is the  top quality Vertical Blind rail system in the UK. We are appointed manufacturers for this superior vertical blind rail system. The runners have wheels so that they run very smoothly. Cheaper rails just slide along and can deteriorate with a lot of use.

The blind is fitted into the recess and top fixed. We can fit to the face of the window frame but we prefer not to do this on new UVPC Windows and patio doors.

Arched Venetian Blinds and Round Venetian Blinds

We have been supplying shaped window blinds for many years. More and more builders are adding feature windows that are round, arched or triangle in shape. This can create all sorts of problems when you want to cover the window for privacy or light control.

We have made arched blinds in both 25mm wood slats and 25mm aluminium slats. The pictures here show an installation in Sunningdale, Berkshire. The slat colour is Copper Bronze. The effect of these blinds is stunning to look at. They also add much needed practicality to a shaped window.

There are over 120 colours available for these arched and round venetian blinds. In the wood slat there are 18 wood colours available.

Control Options For shaped Venetian Blinds

The control options ae limited for shaped venetian blinds. They do not raise and lower. They will tilt quite well but do not close as fully as a standard venetian blind. Fitting is nearly always face fix directly to the window as very few arches and circles are perfectly accurate.

We also make and supply arched vertical blinds and curved vertical blinds. Howards Blinds are also one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of shaped conservatory blinds. We can make these blinds to almost any shape. See the perfect fit blinds page for more details.

Roman Blinds Fitted in Warfield

We have just fitted these Roman Blinds in a home in Warfield. They are made from a top selling fabric called Strand Sand. The design is a number of horizontal stripes in varying colours of cream, beige and sand. We used standard ivory lining. Blackout lining is an option when you want complete blackout in a bedroom.

You can have romans with a co-ordinating colour cord control as in these pictures. You can also have metal chain in silver or brass. There is also an option for white plastic chain. The advantage of having the chain control is that it does not get any longer as you pull the blind up because it is a continuous chain.

The cord control option is easier to get to as it is at the front of the roman blind, not at the back. The benefit of both systems is that there is no longer any need to have a cleat to wind the cord on. You can ask for a cleat to store the cord if you prefer but it is not a “must have” as the blinds stay up on their own.

The larger Roman Blind Shown below has fabric joins. We use a full width piece of fabric in the middle of the blind with 2 small side pieces. They are pattern matched so that the design is continuous.

Vertical Blinds

Vertical Blinds are now a very stylish type of blind. Forget the boring grey ones from 15 years ago. The range of fabrics is quite amazing.
Howards Blinds has a choice of 1200 different fabrics and colours. Here are some of the options.

• Plain colours
• Blackout fabrics
• Plastic vertical blinds for damp rooms
• Jaquard vertical ranges
• Sheers and semi sheers
• Faux Suede Vertical blinds
• Rigid louvres

The headrail we use is called the monarch system and is a very smooth running headrail systems. It is wide body with travellers that run on wheels. This gives a much better and easier operation than rail systems that slide along.
We can make a single blind up to 5 metres wide. Maximium drop is 4 metres.
There also other options such as curved rails and motorised systems.