Select Blinds

You measure the kitchen window, get a number that feels wrong, measure again, and still have no idea whether you want roller or roman or something that blocks the morning sun in the bedroom without making the room feel like a cave. Most blind retailers expect you to have already solved that. Select Blinds, trading as QKS Trade Blinds Ltd and working out of Coatbridge in Lanarkshire, starts a step earlier by sending someone to your home to measure for free and talk through what suits each room before any order is placed.

Free home measuring and design consultation

That free home measuring and design consultation is the part of the Select Blinds offer worth weighing first, because measuring is where most window-treatment projects go sideways. If you have ever had a blind arrive an inch too short, you know the value of someone doing the measuring who then has to stand behind the result. The same team handles professional installation, so the chain from measurement to fitted product stays with one company. They cover Glasgow and Central Scotland, and they take both residential and commercial work.

Room-by-room design choices

The free design consultation is more than a sales call in disguise. Choosing between blackout in a bedroom, day-and-night in a living room, or shutters across a bay is a set of small decisions that add up, and having someone walk the rooms with you removes a lot of second-guessing.

Product range from blinds to shutters

The product range Select Blinds carries is broad, and the site is upfront that everything is made to measure in the company's own factory. On blinds alone you get roller, wooden, venetian, roman, pleated, blackout, day-and-night, and vertical. The shutter list runs deep too: full-height, cafe-style, tier-on-tier, tracked, and perfect-fit, plus the standard shutter blinds. For anyone with an awkward space, there are conservatory blinds, Velux and skylight blinds for sloped glass, and electric or motorised options for windows you cannot easily reach. There are also commercial blinds for offices and other premises, so the same factory serves trade orders as well as households.

Curtains and soft furnishings range

Beyond the hard window treatments, Select Blinds makes curtains and pelmets to measure and stocks soft furnishings: cushion covers, upholstery work, blankets, throws. That spread tells you the Select Blinds showroom is set up to dress a whole room, not simply hang a blind and leave. The room-by-room guidance on the site follows the same logic, with specific advice for kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, bay windows, and patio doors, which are exactly the spots where a generic blind tends to disappoint.

Owning the factory has real consequences for this kind of business. It means the bespoke promise is actual production instead of a badge stuck on bought-in stock, and it gives them control over odd sizes, bay configurations, and the perfect-fit and tracked shutter systems that need to be cut precisely. I tend to trust a window company more when the manufacturing sits under its own roof, because the person who measured can talk to the person who builds it.

Showroom hours and current promotions

The showroom at 15-17 Coatbank Street is open seven days a week, which is unusual and genuinely useful, since blinds and shutters are things you really need to touch and see at full size. Select Blinds keeps the showroom stocked with samples for exactly that reason. Current promotions include multi-buy discounts, the sort of offer that makes sense when you are doing several windows at once, which most people are.

Reaching Select Blinds by phone or showroom

On reaching them, there is little friction. A freephone line, a local Coatbridge number, the full postal address, and showroom hours sit in plain view across the site, with a separate contact and reviews page on top of that. Whether you want to book a measure, drop into the showroom, or just ask a question about motorised blinds, the route to Select Blinds is obvious, and that openness counts for something with a company asking you to schedule a home visit.

Checking the review picture

Reputation is where I would temper expectations, and it is only fair to be plain about it. The Select Blinds site itself displays a Trustist widget claiming more than 1,400 reviews at 4.9 out of 5. That is a strong figure, but it lives on the company's own page and does not surface through independent search. The Trustpilot profile tied to selectblinds.co.uk and QKS Trade Blinds Ltd carries a single review. For a firm operating at this scale, the gap between 1,400 on-site and 1 off-site is notable, and a careful buyer should read the on-site number as the company's own claim rather than settled fact.

Comparing this firm to the US company

One point of confusion is worth heading off. There is a separate American company at selectblinds.com with large review volumes on Trustpilot and other platforms. Those scores belong to a different business entirely and say nothing about the Coatbridge operation. If you search the name and find pages of US reviews, you are looking at the wrong firm. Select Blinds in this case is the UK trader behind QKS Trade Blinds Ltd, so judge it on what it shows you directly and, better still, on a showroom visit.

With the independent review picture so sparse, the strongest reassurance here is physical: a real showroom open seven days a week, a factory behind the products, named phone lines, and a free in-home measure that puts a real person in front of you before money changes hands. For a window project, those things are more telling than a star rating. Select Blinds asks for a fair amount of trust when it sends someone to your home, and the open showroom and the named factory are what it puts on the table in return.

Select Blinds is a sensible firm to put on the shortlist for anyone in Glasgow or across Central Scotland replacing blinds or shutters on more than one window and wanting a measured, fitted result. The free home measure is the obvious first move, because the showroom and the measuring appointment are both free and both tell you more than a website can. Book the measure, see the shutter samples at Coatbank Street in person, and ask about the multi-buy discount. Treat the on-site review count as the company's own claim, go in with eyes open on the independent picture, and let what you see in the showroom settle the question.