For those of you who enjoy hosting dinner parties, the dining room will be central to the home. It’s a place where you entertain guests and chat into the early hours, so it’s important to keep it looking good, and installing plantation shutters in your Hertfordshire or London home will do just that.
A dining room is not just a room set aside for entertaining and family meals; it’s often a day-to-day hive of activity. In many cases, the dining room also doubles up as a home office, children’s craftwork area – and in some homes it’s a music room too. And, as dining rooms often face outwards towards the road, rather than the garden, shutters not only keep prying eyes at bay but they also act as a kind of triple glazing, helping to block out street noise.
Full length or café style louvre shutters are especially popular for dining rooms with bay windows as they offer a practical and stylish alternative to net curtains. These shutters are extremely versatile as you can open the windows while leaving the slats closed and make the most of natural light, which is one of the main benefits of having bay windows. Shutters are also much easier to clean than curtains; they just need a quick dust to keep them looking as good as new.
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Creating the Perfect Dining Room
If you are decorating your dining room from scratch, you will need to ensure that all your furnishings and accessories work well together. Equally, if you are updating your dining room, you will want to choose shutters that offer practicality, versatility and will enhance the look of this space. Tier on tier shutters are the most flexible as you can keep the top section open, while altering the slats on the bottom half, to maintain privacy and make the most of natural light. And, as with all our made-to-measure wooden shutters, they will blend with any decor as we offer a variety of colours including shutters to match any shade of paintwork.
Traditional Dining Room
Solid wooden shutters give a stately feel to an interior, particularly in a panelled dining room of an older style country property where shutters are often designed to match the wood. They are also the window coverings of choice in some period town houses and evoke images of grandeur. Sash windows with shutters, for example, are one of the features of original Georgian townhouses, and are popular with period homeowners wanting to restore their property to its former glory. Solid wood shutters don’t have to be full length, if you prefer this look while also wanting to let the light in, they can be made to cover only the bottom half of the window and can be used in conjunction with curtains.
Plantation shutters are also a great choice for traditional dining rooms. In addition to its sleek and linear affect, which works so well with any decor, they are extremely practical too. If you have large windows, shutters help keep the temperature inside at a comfortable level. In the winter months, shutters help keep the heat in, and, in the summer – and this is especially important if you have a south facing dining room – the slats can be altered to keep the sun’s glare out and stop the room becoming too hot.
Contemporary Dining Room
Minimalist styles and sleek clean lines are key to a contemporary dining room interior and plantation shutters work well with this style. Among the contemporary dining room trends are the shabby chic look (featuring white wooden furniture), high gloss furnishings (such as a Chinese lacquered table) and rooms with one-off occasional vintage pieces (such as a comfy retro leather chair placed in an empty corner).
Whether you opt for the shabby chic look or want a Zen-like Chinese inspired room, plantation shutters fit perfectly with these contemporary themes. Stark white is a popular choice, however, we have a wide range of options that would suit a modern dining room, including bright colours or natural wood.
Open Plan Dining Room
An increasing trend in modern properties, especially apartments, is to have an open plan dining space. This could be a kitchen/diner or a living room that also incorporates an eating area; so it is important that all the decor and furnishings in each of the sections of the room blend well together.
Key trends in warehouse or loft style apartments are light wood industrial style furnishings, brick feature interior walls, and light wooden flooring. Bright colours can add interest to a room, such as a supersize retro floor lamp, or a dramatic modern painting. Loft style apartments are light and airy, and installing plantation shutters can contribute to this look, with high gloss white very much in style.
Of course, your choice for all the windows doesn’t have to be the same. You can choose different shutters for various sections in an open plan area, such as café style shutters in the kitchen and full length shutters in the living and dining area.
About Bespoke Shutters
If you are looking for the perfect solid wood or plantation shutters for your Hertfordshire or London home, Bespoke Shutters have an extensive selection to choose from that suit modern or period style interiors. Contact our expert fitters to find out more about our range, which also includes motorised shutters and shutters that are designed to suit more unusual sizes and shapes of window.
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