About · Est. 1975
Fifty years. One family. Still making things properly.
Thamesdown Blinds was established in 1975, when made-to-measure commercial blinds were a young trade and doing it carefully was the whole business plan. It still is.
We're one of the longest-established blind companies in the South — and after fifty years we're still a family firm, with the fourth generation now in the business. That continuity isn't nostalgia; it's the reason clients who bought blinds from us decades ago still call us when the building changes.
Everything runs from our workshop at Star West in Swindon. We manufacture our own blinds and curtains — and buy in only when it genuinely serves the specification — which gives us total quality control on the way out, and the ability to repair, resize and re-cover systems for years afterwards.
From that one hub we install nationwide: schools in the Cotswolds, offices in Canary Wharf, science labs in Bristol, and hundreds of London projects over the decades. The same installers, the same standards, wherever the job is — because installation is never subcontracted. The people fitting your blinds work for the family whose name is on the business, and it shows in how they treat a furnished, occupied room.
The work is commercial only these days — offices, healthcare, education, hospitality and public buildings. (Long-standing domestic clients: you're the exception, and you know who you are.)
Three words that have been on our letterhead for longer than most of our competitors have existed. They mean: make it well, be straight with people, and know the trade deeply enough to be trusted with the difficult jobs.
In their words
What clients notice
“I just want to say how fantastic the two gentlemen were who installed the blinds today; Very professional, super-efficient, respectful to our staff and office and their tidiness was exceptional. Genuinely nice people, thank you”
Fifty years in — let's talk about your building
Tell us about your building and we'll arrange a commercial site survey — measured, specified, and quoted without drama.