The style of your home, the colour scheme and furniture all have to be considered when choosing your new plantation shutters.

Your window furnishings should work with your home to enhance its character and feel, whilst delivering a solution that is both practical and beautiful. Whether you’re after a classic white finish, or you are looking to make a statement with a bold colour choice we will be with you to provide the very best design advice.

Most of the time, hinged panels provide the best range of fitting options. However on occassions we may notice that the operational effectiveness of the shutters may be limited if fitted that way. This could be due to access being needed to an external or sliding door, or simply a structutal item in the room preventing a hinged panel from fully opening.

With our experience we are able to spot these potential issues well in advance and make recommendations to you about where it would be beneficial to use sliding panels.

There are a number of factors that we take into account when advising you on this decision.

When a panel is installed into a window recess it creates a beautiful clean finish that really blends into its environement. However successfully achieveing this requires a couple of things. Firstly, the window recess has to actually be deep enough (allowing for any handles, openers / closers etc) to allow the shutter to sit completely flush within the recess. Secondly, the window is actually ‘square’ in terms of its sides and angles. Unfortunately, ‘out of square’ windows are not just found in older homes – we have come across many a new build which wasn’t quite upto standard in this regard. If the window isn’t square, trying to install a perfectly square shutter panel into the recess will give a poor end result.

In this situation we would recommend fitting an external frame around the window to square it up. The shutter panel then attaches directly to the frame to create a visually and operationally perfect finish. We have a wide range of framing options available to suit all types and sizes of window.

This is an important aspect which can easily be overlooked in the desire to achieve aesthetic perfection. We will discuss with you who uses the room, and how it is used.

For example, do you need regular ease of access to the windows behind the shutters ? If so, we can look at hinging the panels in different ways to make this easier.

By fully understanding this type of point, our advice can be totally focussed on achieveing the practical requirements as well as the aesthetic.

Do you have a dog that likes to look out of the front window ? How about a cat that likes to climb curtains ? We’ve even had a customer with a rabbit running around the house.

As pet owners ourselves (2 whippets, 1 cat and a blue tongue lizard at the last count) we understand that pets are an integral part of the family. So we will take the time to discuss your furry friends with you, and see if there are any particular habits that we need to consider when making our recommendations.