If you have a stunning roof lantern in your home, you already know how it can transform a space—flooding it with natural light and adding architectural flair. But when the sun becomes too harsh, or you need more privacy and temperature control, roof lantern blinds are a must-have solution.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about roof lantern blinds: what they are, why you need them, types available, key features to look for, and how to choose the right option for your home.
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Experience uninterrupted views and elevate your living spaces with the captivating addition of roof lantern blinds direct from Oakhurst. Crafted to complement your roof lantern, orangery or skylight, our innovative solutions offer a seamless connection to the outdoors. Choose between our electric wire-free zip roller system, ‘SmartZip’ TESS 660, or the advanced honeycombe design, ‘ClearVue’ Duette Honeycombe Blind to enhance your experience with uninterrupted vistas.
A customised cassette roof lantern roller blind to prevent sagging with no unsightly wires spoiling the view of your lantern when open..
Discover the motorised, wire free ClearVue roof lantern blind Suitable for smaller skylights or roof lanterns, the ‘ClearVue’ roof lantern blind has specially selected cellular honeycomb fabrics.
For traditional orangery-style lanterns, pleated or honeycombe/ duette blinds fitted to each panel of the glass. Great for south facing roof lanterns where you want to have the flexibility of operating the blinds individually as the sun moves from east to west.
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A single draw blind without guide wires up to 3m wide x 4.5m long on a single cassette system. This market leading, innovative system uses a highly engineered, customised cassette roller blind to prevent sagging or rippling of the fabric and with no unsightly wires spoiling the view of your lantern when open.
Working with our premium partners Guthrie Douglas and SHY Shading, our zip blinds are manufactured in the UK and have a worldwide reputation for innovation and quality. They are simply the best in class in the market and provide you with the reliability and functionality that is required for long term use compared to other zip blinds offered.
Installing a ‘SMARTZip’ roof lantern blind will control heat and light, reduce glare and is ideal for activities such as watching television or for working on a computer. The ‘SmartZip’ lantern blind fabric is especially formulated with a specialist coating to ensure shading qualities in the summer and also provide essential insulation during those cold snaps in the depths of winter, enabling you to enjoy your room all year round.
For very large roof lanterns. The TESS 660 meet in the middle blind is suitable for lanterns up to 3.0m wide and up to 9.0m long. Choose dim out or blackout fabric. Operated with Somfy motors and controls. Choose Mains or Battery operated.
All fabrics offered are specifically selected to allow for a design aesthetic that will enhance your roof lantern or skylight, whether the blind is open or closed, and will also look ensure whatever the weather conditions your lantern will always look beautiful, particularly at night.
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Both the Zip Roller Blind and the ClearVue Duette Honeycombe Blind open up your ceiling to the sky, allowing an influx of light that enlarges and brightens your rooms.. However, with this beauty, heat loss becomes a concern. Our roof lantern blinds hold the key, featuring specialist insulated backings on both the zip blind and honeycombe fabrics.
We are market leaders for installing ‘wire free’ blinds for lanterns. Our ‘SMARTZip’ TESS 660 no wire blind system is specifically designed to be the best available solution for larger lanterns over 1.5m x 3.0m. ‘SMARTZip’ TESS 660 delivers sleek aesthetics as well as controlling light and heat in the summer months or insulating your space in the colder winter months, so you’ll get greater use of your living space.
Alternatively, we can offer you our beautiful looking wire free honeycombe/duette ‘ClearVue’ system up to 1.5m x 3.0m that delivers premium, wire free quality at value prices.
All our blinds can be remotely controlled or fully integrated into a smart home automation system, using only SOMFY motors and controls. Offering you the ultimate in blind motorisation and automation to enhance contemporary living.
We may be able to help with wire free solutions for conservatory blinds.
Experience the epitome of contemporary living with our remote-controlled or fully integrated SOMFY smart home-automation solutions. Add a Somfy Connectivity Kit or Tahoma to your order and link to Alexa or Google Home. Your lantern becomes more than functional as you manoeuvre the blinds at the touch of a button via the remote control or voice or app activate from the Connectivity Kit or Tahoma. Whichever solution you choose you can match your window blinds with the lantern blind.
Our full service measure and fitting options, offering either a premium electric roof lantern blind, no-support-wire zip roller system or opt for the wire-free ClearVue, thermal control honeycombe lantern blind system. Both options are available in battery or fixed to your power depending on the size of the lantern. Large and extra-large roof lanterns our speciality.
ClearVue even comes as a Do-It-Yourself Option, ‘ClearVue Easy Fit Blind’ where you measure and fit, saving you £££’s. We provide comprehensive, easy to follow, video and instructions on how to measure and fit the blind. Great for smaller roof lanterns or skylights up to 1.5m wide x 3.0m long and the only solution on the self-fit market that is SOMY inclusive.
Prices vary depending on:
Size of your roof lantern
Type of blind
Fabric and control options
Average price range: from £795 inc.VAT (self fit)
Average price range: from £1495 inc. measure/fitting/VAT
Discover the motorised, wire free ClearVue roof lantern blind – developed to ensure a clear view of your lantern or skylight, with no unsightly support wires. Suitable for smaller skylights or roof lanterns, the ‘ClearVue’ roof lantern blind has specially selected cellular honeycomb fabrics that give you superior shading so that you can enjoy your space all year round.
Our affordable wire free, electric option fits perfectly to the base of the lantern. We can manufacture and fit honeycombe/duette fabric blinds as a wire free option up to 1.5m wide x 3m long.
Alternatively, for traditional orangery-style lanterns you may choose to have pleated or honeycombe/duette blinds fitted to each panel of the glass. This is especially good if you have a south facing position roof lantern where you want to have the flexibility of operating the blinds individually as the sun moves from east to west.
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