Nursery blinds: cordless first, blackout second

Cordless options we fit

Any of these removes the hazard rather than mitigating it.

• Spring-operated roller blinds — pull down, gentle tug to retract, no chain at all
• Motorised rollers on a rechargeable battery tube — operated by remote or app
• Perfect-fit blinds — a small handle on the frame, nothing hanging
• Plantation shutters — no cord, no chain, and nothing loose to pull

Getting the room genuinely dark

A blackout fabric alone is not a blackout room. Light leaks down the sides of the recess and over the top of the roller, and in a nursery that gap is exactly what wakes a baby at five in the morning.

A blackout cassette with side channels seals those edges. It is the single upgrade that makes the difference between a dim room and a dark one, and it is what we specify for nurseries as standard.

Positioning around the cot

Regulations aside, we will not sign off a fitting where a cot could be moved under an operating chain. At survey we ask where the cot will go and plan the blind around it.

Where the layout is likely to change as the child grows, motorised removes the question permanently.