Choosing the right blinds for a bay window depends on the type of bay, your style preferences, and whether you’re prioritising privacy, light control, or impact.

Here’s what we’ll cover on this page:

✅ Different types of Bay Windows
✅ The Best Blind styles for each type of bay
✅ How Shutters compare to other solutions
✅ Which blinds are best for privacy, light control, or low maintenance
✅ Bay-friendly options like Perfect Fit and Pleated Blinds
✅ When to consider Curtains or Window Dressing Combinations
✅ How to Book a Consultation or Showroom Visit

Types of Bay Window

Bay windows come in different shapes and layouts. Understanding what type of bay window you have helps determine which blind or shutter options will work best.

✅ Square or Box Bays – 3 panels with 90° corners
✅ Splay or Canted Bays – angled sides (typically 120–135°)
✅ Curved or Bow Windows – 4–6 panels forming a smooth arc
✅ Multifaceted Bays – 5+ angled panels forming a semi-polygon

🌿 Plantation Shutters for Bay Windows

Plantation Shutters are ideal for bay windows — particularly front-facing ones where privacy and light control are key. Thanks to their tilting slats, they let in light while preventing passers-by from seeing in, especially useful in living rooms or ground-floor bedrooms.

We install shutters in a way that butts the frames neatly together, minimising gaps and ensuring a seamless fit, even around corners. For bays, Café Style Shutters are often a perfect choice — offering privacy at the lower half of the window while leaving the top open for natural light. Tier-on-Tier and Full-Height also work beautifully depending on the window height and design preference.

✅ Ideal for: square, splay, and curved bays
✅ Best for: privacy, security, timeless styling

🪞 Wooden & Faux Wood Venetian Blinds

Venetian Blinds with wider 50mm slats — whether in Real Wood or Faux Wood — are a popular and more affordable alternative to Shutters. The tilting slats allow for precise light control and strong privacy, especially in splay bays or where window angles make direct lines of sight possible from the street.

Faux wood Venetians are particularly useful in humid areas like Kitchens or Bathrooms. We fit them so they sit just in front of the window handles and can be fully lifted to maximise light during the day.

✅ Ideal for: square and splay bays
✅ Best for: adjustable privacy and light, cost-effective style

🪟 Aluminium Venetian Blinds

Aluminium Venetians use a slimmer 25mm slat, which makes them less suited to standalone use in large bays unless part of a Perfect Fit frame. That’s where they shine — fitted directly to each window pane, allowing the blinds to move with the window and sit neatly without cords.

✅ Best used with: Perfect Fit for splay or box bays
✅ Best for: clean, modern look with minimal sill interference

🌀 Pleated Blinds – Tensioned & Free-Hanging

Pleated Blinds are one of the most adaptable options for bay windows. We offer both Free-Hanging pleated blinds (ideal for larger windows) and Tensioned formats, which are excellent for Edwardian-style timber bays.

Tensioned Pleated Blinds can even operate from bottom-up, top-down, or multi-zone, giving customers café-style privacy while keeping the top section open. They’re subtle, effective, and visually integrated.

We also offer a range of performance fabrics:

• Solar Reflective Fabrics help reduce heat and glare, making them ideal for south-facing bays or sunny Kitchens.
• Cellular (honeycomb or Duette®) fabrics offer excellent thermal insulation, helping retain warmth in winter.

✅ Ideal for: traditional wooden bays, tight frames
✅ Best for: clean lines, thermal efficiency, adaptable privacy

⚙️ Perfect Fit Blinds (Venetian & Pleated)

Perfect Fit Blinds are clipped directly onto the window frame, ideal for uPVC bay windows. We offer both Perfect Fit Venetian (aluminium slats) and Perfect Fit Pleated (pleated fabric with honeycomb or solar-reflective backing).

They’re especially useful in Kitchens and Conservatories where space on the sill is limited.

✅ Ideal for: square and splay bays with modern frames
✅ Best for: minimalist style, child safety, tight sill spaces

🧵 Roman Blinds

Roman Blinds are best mounted outside the recess to avoid cutting out too much light. They work beautifully in bays with a vertical wall above, offering softness and colour through a wide choice of fabrics.

They’re less suitable for bays with its own lower ceiling unless you’re layering with other treatments.

✅ Ideal for: square/splay bays
✅ Best for: elegant styling, layering with curtains

📐 Vertical Blinds

Vertical Blinds can be used in curved or multifaceted bays with a specialist track — although this can be costly. More commonly, we install them as separate drops with individual headrails for each section of the bay.

They’re excellent for managing privacy and glare in wider or taller windows.

✅ Ideal for: curved or large bays
✅ Best for: light control in practical spaces

⚠️ Roller Blinds (Use with Caution)

While Roller Blinds can be fitted to some bay windows, they tend to leave noticeable gaps, especially in square bays. This can compromise both privacy and light control.

They’re best used only when gaps are less important or as a secondary layer, such as a voile.

✅ Works in: occasional splay bays
⚠️ Consider alternatives for front-facing rooms

🛋️ Window Dressing Combinations (Curtains & Blinds)

Bay windows often benefit from layered solutions — combining blinds with Curtains on curved or angled tracks. This enhances insulation, blocks more light, and adds depth to the room’s aesthetic.

Popular combinations include:
• Voile Roller Blinds with full-length Curtains
• Tier-on-Tier Shutters with soft furnishing Roman blinds
• Pleated blinds with thermal Roman blinds

✅ Ideal for: bedrooms, front lounges, bay window seating areas
✅ Best for: warmth, softness, and complete privacy

🤝 Our Service Commitment

At Hampshire Blinds and Shutters, we take pride in offering a service that’s not only professional, but personal. Whether you’re choosing blinds, shutters, or both, we’re here to make the process smooth, honest, and stress-free from start to finish.

✅ Trusted, In-House Fitting Team

We never subcontract. All consultations, measurements, and installations are carried out by our own fully trained and experienced fitters.

✅ Our Service Pledge

We believe in clear, ethical service:
• No pressure
• No commission-based selling
• No subcontracted installations
• No sharing of your details

✅ No-Obligation Consultations

Choose from Home Visits, Showroom Appointments, or Zoom Consultations. We’ll offer tailored advice and help you explore the best options for your windows.

✅ Long Product Guarantees

• 10 years on shutters
• 3 years on blinds
You can count on long-term quality and aftercare.

✅ UK-Made Options & Fast Turnaround

We offer a range of UK-Made Shutters and blinds — with some products available in as little as 5 weeks. Perfect if you’re working to a deadline.

✅ Free Temporary Blinds with Shutter Orders

While you wait for your made-to-measure shutters to arrive, we’ll fit a temporary blind at no extra cost to keep your home private and comfortable.

✅ Safe & Responsible Trading

• PPE and safe working practices during home visits
• Clear communication from start to finish
• Feedback welcome at every stage — we’re always improving

Ready to Find the Right Blinds?

We’re here to help — whether you’re just browsing ideas or ready to make a decision.

📞 Call us on 01962 600 379
📧 Email: support@hampshireblindsandshutters.co.uk

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