Shutters
Shutters are a stylish and functional addition to any home. They are custom-made to fit the unique dimensions for each window and can be crafted from various materials, including wood and composite. Shutters offer excellent control over privacy and natural light, and they can be designed in several styles such as full height, tier-on-tier, or café style to match your interior decor.
Installing shutters can enhance the aesthetic appeal of your home and potentially increase its value. They’re also known for their insulating properties, helping to keep your home warm in winter and cool in summer.
Full Height Shutters
Full height shutters are a stylish and functional choice for windows, covering the entire height of the window and providing privacy, light control, and insulation. They can be crafted from various materials, including hardwood and composite plastic, and come with different tilt rod options for adjusting the slats.
Tier on Tier Shutters
Tier on tier shutters, offer a versatile and stylish window covering solution. They consist of two sets of panels, one on top of the other, that operate independently. This allows for greater control over privacy and light, as you can open the top set to let in light while keeping the bottom set closed for privacy.
Cafe Style Shutters
Café style shutters, are a charming and practical choice for those who want to combine privacy with natural light. They cover only the lower part of the window, allowing the top section to remain open or covered with a different treatment, such as curtains or blinds.
Track Systems Shutters
Track system shutters are an excellent choice for covering large windows, doors, or as room dividers. They operate on a track and can be designed as bi-fold or by-pass systems, allowing for smooth operation and efficient use of space.
- Bi-Fold System: The panels fold back on themselves, saving space and providing full access to the window or door.
- By-Pass System: Panels slide past each other on parallel tracks, ideal for sliding doors or when folding space is limited.
Special Shapes Shutters
Special shape shutters are custom-made window coverings designed to fit windows of non-standard shapes, such as arches, triangles, circles, or any other irregular form. They are perfect for adding a unique touch to your home and can be tailored to match your specific design preferences.
Bay Window Shutters
Bay window shutters are a stylish and functional addition to any home with bay windows. They offer a custom fit for the unique angles and shapes of bay windows, providing excellent light control, privacy, and insulation.
Bay window shutters come as either a splayed bay, a box bay or a multi angled bay.
Conservatory Shutters
Conservatory shutters, are a stylish and practical solution for conservatories. They offer several benefits, including:
- Durability: They are more durable than traditional blinds and require low maintenance.
- Energy Efficiency: They provide additional insulation, helping to keep the conservatory warm in winter and cool in summer.
- Light Control: Shutters allow you to control the amount of sunlight entering the space, protecting furniture from sun glare and fading.
- Privacy: They can be adjusted to provide privacy without sacrificing natural light.
Solid Panel Shutters
Solid panel shutters are a traditional and decorative window covering option. They are made of solid hardwood panels without operable louvres, which means they can be fully opened to let in light or closed to block it out completely. They come in various styles such as Solid Raised or Solid Shaker, and can be customized in full height, café, or tier on tier designs.
These shutters are known for their simplicity and ease of use, as they hinge to a frame allowing for easy opening and closing. They’re also beneficial for insulation, privacy, light control, and noise reduction when closed. Solid panel shutters are particularly suitable for period properties, cottages and large homes with sash windows or high ceilings.
Blackout Shutters
Blackout shutters are a popular choice for bedrooms and other spaces where controlling natural light is important. They combine traditional plantation shutters with an integrated blackout honeycomb blind, providing two layers of light blockage. The shutters allow you to adjust the amount of light with their louvres, and when closed, the blackout system offers a room darkening solution that can help you sleep even during bright mornings.
The blackout blinds come in corded and cordless options and can be installed with any wooden shutter. They not only provide perfect darkness but also offer thermal and noise insulation benefits. For those who work at night or prefer a darker room for sleeping, blackout shutters can be an excellent investment for a more comfortable and restful environment.
French Door Shutters
French door shutters are a stylish and functional choice for your home and are fixed directly to the door so that the shutter moves with the door when opened. This is an alternative to a full height or track system.
They offer privacy, light control, and can be made to measure for your specific doors. The way that the shutters is cut around the handle can change based on the design of the door.
Hardwood Shutters
Hardwood shutters are known for their durability and strength, yet they are light and can beautifully transform any room. They come in different styles such as tier on tier, full height, café style, and can be custom-shaped to fit any window or doorway.
Waterproof Shutters
Waterproof shutters have exactly the same specifics as a Hardwood shutter so you retain the same aesthetic from room to room. The only difference is that they are made from a composite plastic so that they will withstand moisture and humidity.
Composite shutters are very dense so that are naturally heavier than that of wood, they also have an aluminium core to them to ensure the rigidity
Centre Tilt Rods
The centre tilt rod on a shutter is a traditional feature that runs down the middle of the shutter panel. It’s used to adjust the angle of the louvers, allowing you to control the amount of light and privacy in a room.
This type of tilt rod is easy to grip and operate, ensuring that all slats move together uniformly. It's a classic choice that complements traditional shutter designs and can add a touch of sophistication to your space.
Offset Tilt Rods
An offset tilt rod is a component of a shutter that can be positioned to the left or right-hand side of a shutter panel, aligning with the hinge side or opening edge of the frame.
This design offers a more contemporary finish than the central tilt rod and is particularly popular with café style shutters and bespoke, shaped shutters. It provides a cleaner look by being less conspicuous than a central tilt rod, often making it a preferred choice for modern interior designs If you’re considering this option for your shutters, it’s a great way to combine traditional functionality with a sleek, modern aesthetic.
Concealed Mechanism
The concealed tilt mechanism on shutters is a feature that allows the louvres to be operated without a visible rod. This mechanism is typically hidden in the side (stile) of each louvre section, allowing all the louvres to open and close at the same rate when you move one of them to the desired position.
It offers a cleaner look and an unobstructed view when the slats are open, making it a popular choice for a modern and minimalist aesthetic.
Colour
There are a spectrum of colour ranging from Pure White through to Black. The perfect finish to our shutters is what sets us apart in the shutter market.
- Painted Finish : The paintwork is extremely smooth and similar to an eggshell finish.
- Stained Finish : With this you have lighter and darker tomes to the wood and with this finish you will see the woods natural grain.
- Destressed Look : This is a painted finish that is them put through a wiring process to make the panels have deep grain with gives the destressed look.
Louvre Sizes
Shutter louvres come in various sizes to accommodate different aesthetic preferences and functional needs. Here are some common sizes:
- 47mm: A classic, delicate look perfect for cottages, allowing maximum light into the room while providing some visibility.
- 63mm: Balances classic style with practicality, diffuses light more than 47mm, and obscures some views in and out.
- 76mm: A popular size that filters light beautifully and offers mid-level privacy.
- 89mm: Large modern louvres make a statement, provide significant light diffusion and glare protection, and offer high levels of privacy.
- 114mm: The ultimate contemporary style, maximizes privacy, blocks most direct sunlight, and can make space feel darker.
The choice of louvre size can impact the style and function of your shutters, as well as the overall look and feel of your room. It’s also worth considering the height of your window and the estimated width of each shutter panel to determine the best match.
Hinge Colour and Assessories
As a general rule when it comes to hinges we would match up the colour to the matching hinge, this means that the hinge blends in with the shutter. However, some clients like to make the hinge become a feature of the shutter.
The Colours are as follows:
- Pure White
- White
- Pearl
- Bisque
- Stainless Steel
- Nickle Plated
- Brushed Brass
- Antique Brass
- Black
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