Made-to-Measure Blinds in St Ives

Ask around a riverside town and you learn quickly which trades measure twice. Stilton Shutters and Blinds was founded by Sam Roberts on a simple idea: measure properly, make properly, fit properly, and reputation looks after itself. It has carried us to a Cambridgeshire industry award and 152 Google reviews averaging 4.9 stars — and it is the standard we bring to every made-to-measure blind we fit in St Ives, from cottages near the quay to family homes on the town's newer streets.

Light off water is its own category of problem. On bright days the Great Ouse bounces glare upward into south-facing rooms, and the usual instinct — pull everything shut — wastes the very view people moved here for. Roller blinds, from £45, are the first tool we reach for: among their 280 fabrics are sheers and dimouts that knock back glare while keeping the room light and the outlook visible, plus blackouts for bedrooms that face the sunrise.

Day and night blinds, from £70 in 41 colours, give riverside and street-facing rooms a second level of control. Their paired sheer and solid bands slide past one another, so privacy comes by degrees — soft-focus during the day, fully closed at night — without the blunt on-off of a conventional blind. Roman blinds, from £80 with 162 fabrics, then dress the rooms where comfort leads: folded fabric with real presence, suited to the sitting rooms and bedrooms of the town's older cottages and Victorian houses. All three are made to measure and manufactured in the UK, and our surveyor will happily bring samples for all of them to one appointment.

Why choose Stilton Shutters & Blinds

We were named Best Shutters and Blinds Company 2023 for Cambridgeshire at the Southern Enterprise Awards, and every blind behind that award was manufactured in the UK and made to measure — a combination that is rarer than it should be at sensible prices.

Your starting point costs nothing: a free technical survey at your St Ives home, with samples to handle and one of our own experts doing the measuring. The written quote that follows carries no obligation, and the reviews — 4.9 stars across 152 on Google — will tell you how the fitting day tends to go. We would rather earn a recommendation than push for a signature.

Serving St Ives and the surrounding villages

St Ives is squarely inside our Cambridgeshire patch, an easy run down the A1 corridor from our Yaxley workshop, and its riverside market-town character makes it a rewarding place to work. The older streets around the quay and the market have cottages and townhouses with smaller, deeper-set windows where a made-to-measure blind fits like joinery, while the newer estates on the edges of town bring uPVC frames, wider spans and glazed doors into the mix.

Rooms overlooking the river or the meadows get the full force of open-sky light, which is why glare control comes up in St Ives more than in most towns — and why we tend to arrive with the sheer and dimout samples near the top of the bag. Whatever the room, the free survey sorts opinion from guesswork.

Frequently asked questions

Do you cover St Ives and nearby villages?

Yes — St Ives is part of our regular rounds, along with the surrounding villages between Huntingdon and Cambridge. We are based in Yaxley near Peterborough and cover the whole county, so arranging a free survey is straightforward. Call 01733 639045 to book.

Which blinds cope best with kitchens and bathrooms?

Venetian blinds, from £36, handle steam and wipe clean easily, and perfect fit blinds suit uPVC windows with no drilling. In a riverside town where condensation is a fact of life in older cottages, choosing moisture-tolerant blinds for wet rooms is worth doing properly at the survey.

What will my blinds cost?

Starting prices: vertical £30, venetian £36, roller £45, perfect fit £50, day and night £70, roman £80. Your exact price depends on sizes and fabric, so we confirm everything in a written quote after the free survey, with our Price Match Guarantee applied.

Do blinds make any difference to warmth?

Yes, a modest but real one — a close-fitting blind traps a layer of air against the glass, which helps rooms hold warmth on winter evenings. It rewards the made-to-measure approach: the closer the fit, the better the effect.

To book a free visit, contact Stilton Shutters & Blinds on 01733 639045 — your local, family-run team for St Ives. Arrange a free survey in St Ives today: free technical survey, written quote, price match guarantee and a 15-year warranty on shutters.