Shutters or Blinds? - Choosing Window Treatments For Your Home

Bespoke Shutters supply and install plantation shutters, solid shutters and wooden Venetian blinds for customers throughout North and South London and the Home Counties. Whilst the choice of whether to install shutters or blinds is partly down to personal taste, there are some practical things to consider.

Why Choose Shutters Over Blinds...

They Are Sturdier

Shutters are sturdier than blinds because they are constructed from harder wearing, thicker materials. Blinds are more often than not made from fabrics or thin strips of wood or plastic, whereas shutters, whilst still made from wood or plastic, are constructed of thicker more hardwearing material. This means that shutters will last longer than blinds and not need replacing as often and over time, this will save you money.

Shutters are the preferred choice over blinds for every room in the home but especially for those rooms that are opened and closed to vary the lighting conditions a lot. Those rooms include the kitchen the dining room and the lounge as well as the bedrooms. In all of these rooms, it is important to be able to control lighting levels as well as ventilation and privacy and installing window shutters is a very effective way of doing this.

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They Are Ideal For Use in Harsh Environments Like Bathrooms, Wet Rooms and Swimming Pools

In these areas of the home you must be particularly careful which materials you use. Fabrics, many woods and metals will all perish rather quickly in these environments so you are strongly advised to steer clear of these when choosing your décor and materials.

We offer a new range of waterproof shutters, which are ideal for damp environments like bathrooms, wet rooms and swimming pools and especially designed for the purpose. They are produced using a substance called Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene. ABS provides a waterproof, wipe clean surface that will not suffer the affects of water, even if completely submerged. This makes them ideal for use in wet environments since they are not affected by water at all

They are available in many different shades of white and so you can choose the tone that best suits the rest of your bathroom décor. They add a fresh, contemporary feel to any room and best of all, they can be produced in the same styles as our other household shutters so they will match in, perfectly.

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More Choice - More Style

Not only can shutters be produced in a range of different materials, they can also be made in a host of different styles and colours giving you the maximum choice of pattern, finish and material.

• Your window shutters can be produced in natural or machined wood
• They can be coated in plastic or made entirely from ABS
• They can be coloured using tones from the Dulux or Farrow and Ball colour ranges.
• They can be presented in natural wood, displaying their own, natural wood colours.
• There are many different styles to choose from; there are plantation shutters, with rotating slats and solid shutters that work off hinges. There are tier on tier shutters, café style shutters and full-length shutters, all of which produce a different but very desirable finished look

They Can Be Created to Fit Any Window

Shaped shutters are those that are produced to conform to a particular window shape. You might need circular shutters to go up at your Rose window or Catherine window, your porthole or your wheel window, your ocular window or oculus. You may need shutters to go up inside your arched windows or curved windows or you may want shutters to fit a really unusual, one of a kind shape. With shutters you can do this, with blinds, you cannot. Even if you have something a little more unusual then, simply give us the measurements and we’ll construct one for you.

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They Can Be Motorised

Shutters can be motorised, they can be electrically driven and remotely controlled and you can even have this done, after they’ve been installed. This is a very useful latest development. In some cases, windows can be quite hard to reach, say in the case of high up conservatory windows or those on stairways. With a remote control, there is no longer any need to stand on a chair or get the steps out. With remote controlled shutters you can alter their position from the comfort of your armchair.

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They Provide Added Insulation

Whether you choose solid shutters or plantation shutters an added benefit or bonus is that they offer another line of defence against the elements. When fully closed your shutters act as another layer on top of the glass of the windows.