Roller blind that is not full blackout - but not "sheer" either

[candycane222]

...but something in between...

I am after a roller blind to fit behind shutters that will cut out a fair bit of light, but not ll of it - so when the shutters are open and the blind closed, there will be enough light on the room to see but I still won't be dazzled, till I'm ready for the day. The thickness of a fabric curtain I suppose.

Does "sheer" just mean "not blackout"? The pictures I have seen (Dunelm, Ikea etc) look like they are more like nets for modesty than for shading out light, and I don't think these would keep the room dark enough at night. But I assume the blackouts do as they say. Once upon a time roller blinds did neither of those jobs very well because they fell in the middle somewhere - and one of those is what I want, awkward bugger that I am!

If anyone has found this mythical beast, I'd be so grateful for a pointer 🙏

You want a "daylight" blind.

It baffles me that most water resistant blinds for bathrooms are also blackout.

Thanks @PickAChew ! I saw a couple that seemed rather pale and sheer so thought they were designed to maximise light - so I dismissed them, but now found some in darker colours seem to be about right, I feel more confident now.

(found some on John Lewis and they are nothing like as expensive as I'd feared!)
Thank you again!

We have one like this, but ours is charcoal grey

Oh good lord

they are magic blinds from blinds 2 go

very reasonable price

Oh theres the photo 😀

The Range do some cracking ones! Good, reasonable prices too.

https://www.therange.co.uk/home-furnishings/curtains-and-blinds/blinds/blackout-blinds/?sort=relevance&in_stock_f=true&page=1

Ikea SANDVEDEL is imo limites light better than nets but you should look at a darker colour to block more sunlight

when I was looking the Range had some plain mid weight fabric with good colour choices and B&Q some too which were not too pricey and if your windows are different they had a good range of W and L so easy to resize if needed

Day and night blinds perhaps. Sometimes called zebra blinds.

Ooh thanks so much everyone. Lots of very helpful ideas and especial thanks to @RufustheFactuaIReindeer for your persistence in getting the info in here 😁. The Range looks like a good shout as I can actually go and look which I think im going to want to do. But I don't have a branch all that handy so I may just risk an online order...

Thanks again for all the help!

Thanks candy 😀

the online place we used was very good, ds1’s husband can’t sleep in a dark room 😳 so they just have that blind and we have curtains we can pull when we have guests