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Made-to-measure pleated blinds are built to handle angled and non-standard glazing — a feature of some of the shaped windows and garden-room extensions found in Kidbrooke Village's townhouses.
Pleated blinds are the practical answer where a Kidbrooke townhouse has a shaped, angled or simply awkward opening that a roller cannot dress cleanly. The pleat stacks tight, so a landing window or a small cloakroom does not lose the glass to a bulky barrel.
Fabric is chosen per room: a translucent pleat where a stair window should stay bright, a denser cloth where a bedroom needs more privacy, and a moisture-tolerant finish for bathrooms.
Freely hanging and tensioned systems are both used. Tensioned wires suit doors and tilt-and-turn windows because the blind travels with the sash rather than swinging into the room. A top stack or bottom stack is picked so the gathered fabric sits where it is least in the way.
On rented and leasehold frames we prefer a perfect-fit or tensioned fixing that does not rely on drilling the UPVC, and we confirm that choice at the measure before anything is made.
Where a townhouse mixes rectangular rooms with one shaped landing window, the pleats are specified only for the openings a roller cannot dress.
A dual operation system lets the fabric be positioned at any point on the window, giving townhouses and apartments precise privacy and light control at different times of day rather than just fully open or fully closed.
With over 200 fabric options available, pleated blinds can match both design-led Berkeley apartments and the more traditional interiors found in some of Kidbrooke's townhouse streets.
Angled skylights over stairwells, tall narrow windows and garden-room extensions all benefit from a blind designed to be made to measure rather than adapted from a standard size.
Several townhouse plans in Kidbrooke Village include windows that are narrower at the head, set into a slope, or simply too short for a standard roller barrel and brackets. A pleated blind is cut to that outline and still gives a fabric finish rather than leaving the opening bare.
The stack size is small, which matters in cloakrooms and landings where a cassette would project into a tight space. Residents can leave the glass almost clear or draw the pleat fully, without a heavy bottom bar crossing the view.
Plain, textured and dim-out cloths cover the rooms we see most: bright stairwells, children's bedrooms and bathrooms. A honeycomb pleat is offered where the brief is insulation as well as privacy, particularly on single-glazed-feeling corners of a new extension or a cold landing.
Cord, wand or handle control is matched to who uses the room. Tensioned systems on a bathroom door keep the fabric flat when the door is opened, instead of the pleat dropping out of its wires.
Colour is taken from the rest of the house. A townhouse that already has roman blinds in the reception rooms can take a pleat in a related cloth on the shaped windows, so the upper floors do not look like a different scheme.
Every shaped opening is templated on site. We do not scale a rectangle up from the widest point and hope; the finished blind has to meet the frame all round, including any rake.
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Made-to-measure pleated blinds are built to handle angled and non-standard glazing — a feature of some of the shaped windows and garden-room extensions found in Kidbrooke Village’s townhouses. Because each one is cut to the exact opening, there’s no compromise around an awkward angle.
A dual operation system lets the fabric be positioned at any point on the window, giving homes precise privacy and light control at different times of day rather than just fully open or fully closed, which suits a room that only faces the sun for part of the day.
Yes — with over 200 fabric options available, pleated blinds can match both design-led Berkeley apartments and the more traditional interiors found in Kidbrooke’s townhouse streets, from plain neutrals through to bolder patterns.
The service includes an on-site measurement of the shaped or angled window, a fabric choice worked through with you from our range, and precise fitting by our own local team, backed by our quality fitting guarantee that treats every angled window as its own measurement.
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The townhouses built in Kidbrooke Village's earlier phases often include shaped windows and garden-room extensions that a standard roller or Venetian blind wasn't designed for, particularly where a staircase or double-height space is involved.
Pleated blinds handle that kind of opening well, folding neatly to one side or across the shaped glazing without the gaps a badly adapted standard blind would leave.
Demand is genuinely mixed rather than seasonal: families move into these townhouses throughout the year, which keeps our local fitting schedule busy on a rolling basis.
For homeowners renovating an existing Kidbrooke townhouse, that means a fitting partner who can measure an awkward opening properly rather than reaching for a generic size.
With Kelly's Blinds, Kidbrooke's townhouse owners get a made-to-measure pleated blinds fitting service built for the shaped windows a standard blind can't handle.
The townhouse streets are where shaped windows show up: stair glazing, small top-floor openings and the occasional angled pane over a landing. Apartment towers rarely need that, and we say so rather than forcing a pleat onto a standard reveal.
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