Before making your final decision on which office blinds to choose, take a moment to make a list of your priorities.
For example, consider how natural light and LED lighting can work together to create a balanced and productive environment. While natural light is ideal for boosting mood and energy, excessive exposure can lead to screen glare and discomfort. Pairing adjustable blinds with LED lighting allows you to control brightness levels throughout the day, ensuring consistency and reducing eye strain.
Additionally, think about the energy impact of your windows. How they contribute to heat loss during winter or heat gain in summer, and how investing in smart shading solutions can make a positive difference to your energy bills while enhancing comfort and sustainability in your workspace.
Think about other factors as well: Do you need total blackout blinds for privacy or presentations? Are energy savings, sustainability, or smart automation high on your list? What do your employees prefer?
Understanding your office’s requirements can help you choose functional office blinds that align with your vision and goals.
We offer a wide range of office blinds and curtains designed to meet every need and preference. Made in Britain and backed by over 50 years of experience, our products combine exceptional design with eco-conscious practices and superior craftsmanship.
Energy Efficiency
When you think of blinds, energy efficiency might not immediately come to mind. What about if we tell you that window blinds play a key role in managing energy consumption?
Maintaining a comfortable office environment in the UK’s varying climate can be challenging, but our smart blinds provide an effective solution.
Our blackout blinds with side channels, such as the Kuro™ system, are specifically designed to retain heat during the colder months and block excessive heat in the summer. Combining natural light with LED lighting and smart shading creates an optimised balance that reduces energy use. Our smart blinds not only manage heat loss and gain but also work in harmony with artificial lighting to reduce reliance on energy-intensive systems like HVAC and overhead lights.
Side channels help reduce energy consumption in offices, helping with BREEAM certification. Umbra blinds help businesses achieve higher scores in the energy and management categories of BREEAM by enhancing thermal performance.
Additionally, our screen fabrics allow natural daylight to brighten workspaces while managing glare and solar gain. This further decreases the reliance on artificial lighting and HVAC systems.
A Healthier Office Space
Even though natural light is so important for our wellbeing, excessive sunlight can cause discomfort, screen glare and fatigue during work time.
Selecting blinds carefully for your needs brings a healthy balance, enabling employees to perform their best in a comfortable and optimised space. The right blinds can balance between natural and LED lighting, minimising screen glare and eye strain while maintaining a healthy, well-lit workspace.
Our product range includes motorised blinds, blackout curtains, and smart home automation systems. The automation systems are designed for residential and commercial use, offering precise light management to boost tenant and employee wellbeing.
Our automated shading systems can also help with BREEM credits.
Our blackout office blinds featuring zipped-edge fabric and side channels provide an excellent blackout effect for areas that need complete light exclusion. This ensures privacy and allows for better focus and control over natural light. These features are especially useful in boardrooms, presentation spaces, and meeting rooms.
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Better Focus & Productivity
It makes sense to prioritise better focus and productivity in an office environment. However, many factors can negatively affect this, including screen glare and inconsistent lighting. Our office blinds have been designed to combat these issues and help maintain optimal lighting conditions throughout the day, allowing employees to focus without distractions.
By managing natural light alongside artificial lighting, our blinds help you achieve consistent brightness levels throughout the day. This reduces visual distractions and promotes a focused, productive environment.
For offices with plenty of natural light, our KuroLok™ blackout system is a top choice. It can cover up to 24m² with a single blind, providing complete light control while featuring sleek side channels to prevent light leakage.
Side Channels for Blackout Privacy
Privacy, light control, and efficiency are essential for modern offices, and Umbra’s blackout blind systems, such as KuroLok™, ExtraLok™, and Kuro™, deliver exceptional performance. Our blackout blinds, enclosed in full cassettes with side channels, are available with or without zipped-edge fabric retention, ensuring total light exclusion and extra functionality.
Why choose KuroLok™?
- Zipped-edge fabric retention
- Includes headbox and slim side channels
- Sizes up to 4m wide, 6m drop, 24m²
- 12-year warranty
- Independently tested to Corrosion Class C4
- Zipped-edge fabric retention
- Sizes up to 4m wide, 6m drop, 24m2
- 3-year warranty
Why choose Kuro™?
- Simple and robust blackout system
- Includes headbox and side channels
- Sizes up to 4m wide, 3.6m drop, 14m²
- 12-year warranty
And If you want to seamlessly blend your blinds and curtains into the office, then Blindspace® is for you. Blindspace hides your blinds’ mechanisms, creating a sleek, minimalist, and elegant space.
Sustainability
We live in an era where people are increasingly mindful of their environmental impact when making purchases. About 62% of consumers are willing to change their buying habits to help the planet, and one-third don’t mind paying more for sustainable products.
We prioritise eco-friendly practices by creating products from durable, recyclable materials. Our screen fabrics reduce energy consumption and provide effective solar control, helping to lower a building’s environmental footprint.
In addition to reducing solar heat gain and reliance on artificial lighting, our smart shading solutions help lower overall energy consumption, aligning with modern sustainability goals.
Many of our solutions meet BREEAM’s materials and waste criteria, ensuring minimal impact throughout their lifecycle. Choosing Umbra office blinds helps businesses achieve higher BREEAM ratings and prove their commitment to sustainability.
Quality and Craftsmanship
Choose office blinds where quality and craftsmanship come first. Our products are designed with durability and precision to meet the highest standards. Our wide range of fabric finishes and colours can help convey your brand’s personality.
Umbra products are simple to install, easy to maintain and are combined with a 12-year warranty. This guarantees long-term reliability and top performance, making our blinds a smart investment for any business.
Installing the ideal smart blind or curtain into your office has never been simpler!
Reliability and Aftercare
Aftercare matters! Pick a provider who ensures your blinds perform their best long after installation.
Our expert team integrates office blinds with automation systems and keeps zipped-edge blackout blinds intact.
Our high-quality solutions cut maintenance costs. Zipped-edge fabric retention prevents damage and extends the lifespan of your blinds. This reliability boosts efficiency and aligns with BREEAM’s focus on lifecycle performance and durability.
For finding a good balance between productivity, sustainability, and wellbeing, choose office blinds that can provenly combine them all.
Do you feel more confident choosing the right blinds for your office?
Selecting office blinds requires considering factors like productivity, employee well-being, and sustainability. Umbra’s office blinds, blackout curtains, and smart automation systems are designed to meet these needs.
Explore our office blinds and create an office that stands out. Contact us.