Plantation Shutters Provide The Timeless Beauty At Low Maintenance

Plantation shutters were invented to be functional. Add modern day design and making techniques and you have plantation shutters that are not only functional but also provide timeless beauty at low maintenance.

Well designed Plantation Shutters add a huge appeal to your home and your décor – interior and exterior. They provide curb appeal, add as much privacy control as required, add a layer of insulation against excess heat, provide a way to control natural light entering your home and add that “wow” factor to your exterior and interior décor. They are also easily wiped clean and are therefore low maintenance – no laundry bills.

Curb Appeal – Get That Amazing Look.

Walk through your neighbourhood and notice homes with and without shutters. You will agree that homes with shutters especially plantation shutters look much better than homes without shutters. In fact, did you know that shutters can be financed along with your home purchase? Banks permit you to include shutters because they are considered a great value addition to the home. Also, homes with shutters rent out faster or sell faster than homes without shutters.

Control Your Privacy

While blinds and shutters function similarly, they are not the same. A blind usually does not cover the window 100% and also, unless locked at both ends, a blind will tend to sway in the breeze. The narrow gaps they create are a breach of your privacy. Plantation shutters on the other hand, cover the full window top to bottom and side to side. They are fixed and do not sway in the wind.

When the slats of the shutter is closed, it cuts off view into your room. There is not way someone standing outside can peep into your room. Your privacy is total. Also, plantation shutters can be made in a variety of styles e.g. split-top shutters wherein one half can be opened while the other half remains closed. In fact, shutters can be custom made to be as functional as you want them to be. Design and function possibilities are only limited by the abilities of your carpenter.

Save On Electricity

Keep the slats of the shutter half closed and it prevents direct sunlight from entering the room while allowing indirect light to provide sufficient brightness so that the room is not in darkness. This keeps the hot sunlight out and your cooling bills down. Similarly during winter, keeping the louvres of the shutter closed prevents loss of heat through the windows. Also, shutters being made of wood, they have far better insulation properties compared to blinds and curtains. Plantation Shutters Clayton will keep the cold winds and cold temperature out while keeping you warm and cosy inside and you end up saving on your heating bill.

Value For Money

Curtains, blinds etc. are considered ‘personal’ because they are impacted by personal tastes and preferences and so while they may add beauty they do not add value to the home. Plantation Shutters Oakleigh on the other hand, have less to do with personal tastes and more to do with matching overall ecstatics and décor of the home. The timeless beauty that plantation shutters add is therefore transferred along with the home to the next person or family that occupies it.

Louvre Shutters are a Fantastic Product for Window Covering

A new home or a home being refurbished will invariably include work on the window coverings too. While there is a vast range of options available, nothing beats Louvre shutters in terms of functionality, beauty and energy saving.

Louvre shutters are a fantastic product and have been a functional and beauty element of modern home design for many decades. Architects and interior decorators use louvre shutters as an important architectural feature not only refining the aesthetics of a home or building but also helping protect the environment by reducing the carbon footprint of the home or building that uses louvre shutters.

Louvre shutters protect your home interiors from the harsh sun, reduce sun glare, keep your interiors cool thereby reducing your electricity bills. In the winter they do the opposite – keep the cold elements outside while preventing heat loss through the windows thereby once again, reducing your electricity bills incurred on heating the house or building. Apart from the shade, privacy and insulation properties, operable louvered shutters also provide protection from stormy weather. Louvered shutters are therefore a fantastic product for window covering.

From a functional point-of-view, Louvre Shutters Clayton can be installed on the wall itself or to the frame of your windows. Depending on the décor, louvre shutters can be made as bi-folding or multi-folding system for larger openings. They could be a single sash or double sash in fact, there is hardly any restriction as to its design. The design of the louvre shutters you need, is typically an amalgam of the function you require and the décor. For example, louvered PVC shutters can be used to great effect as bathroom doors with colour that matches rest of the decor. Solid wood louvered windows and doors help to deflect sound – an important advantage for homes and buildings located near noisy streets and arterial roads.

Even if you have a large colonial style home with oversized arched windows, you can install custom-made louvered shutters for true “wow” factor apart from the functionality they offer. In fact, custom shutters elevate the décor of any room or home because they look more like they are a part of the architectural element than a separate window treatment.

We came across a large home in Alice Springs that had these amazing latticework of louvered shutters that drew in air while shading the home from the harsh sun. The home owners were an elderly couple and unfortunately, they could not remember the name of the architect who designed it. The beauty of this type of latticed louvered shutters is that air flow is triggered by the significant temperature difference between the shaded and non-shaded sides. This method of natural ventilation is ideal for Alice Springs especially due to the substantial difference between daytime and night time temperatures.

Louvre Shutters Oakleigh can be used on the outside as well as inside the house. In fact, in another home also at Alice Springs, louvered shutters were used as an elegant room divider! They were used to separate the bedroom from the en-suite. The louvered shutters could be closed for privacy and opened to maximise use of natural light (an effect they magnified with the help of large mirrors). So louvered shutters are not just a fantastic product for window covering, in fact, this design we saw at Alice Springs proved that louvered shutters can also be used to great effect to make a visual connection between rooms and give the home a feeling of space and also promote continuous air flow.

Superb Sidewinder Mechanism Of Roller Blind System

A professional quality, sidewinder roller blinds system is always engineered to precision so as to bring a balanced product that excels in design, engineering and cost. It’s the technology, insight and knowledge that create these refined mechanisms and pushes the boundaries of domestic or commercial application suitability.

It’s a superb, sidewinder mechanism that made the roller blind systems a necessity in the current world of interior decors. They are relatively simple, but when you want to do the installations yourself, a little lowdown on these simple yet superb mechanisms of sidewinder Roller Blinds Oakleigh comes helpful.

On the drive-end, a sidewinder system features a tensile, stainless-steel, spring-loading mechanism operating on a plastic or a nickel chain. Basically, it works as a cog, activated by the links on the side-winder chain. When the chain is pulled, the chain’s links – which slot into cog grooves inside the side-winder – force the winder to turn. Every component stays coated with lubricants to ensure longer, smoother and quieter operations. A spring-loaded plunge-pin offers maximum flexibility during installations.

Generally, there are four parts to every Roller Blinds Clayton sidewinder mechanism unit. These parts remain joined together by a screw at the inner end. The casing for the bearing goes to the next section; this casing allows the blind to revolve. The bearing and the cog mechanism stay at the left while the side-winder chain is made into a loop that hangs downwards (about 3/4th of the height of the blind). A rule of thumb; therefore, is to keep the length of the chain to 3/4th the length of the blind drop multiplied by 2. (3/4 l X 2). Follow this and you are not likely to have any measurement issues.

After you put the chain around the cog, you will join it together by a clip. Ensure that you position the chain at a correct length. To keep it at the left side, attach the chain with a short length on the right-hand side; for the right, attach it with the short side on the left. The idea is, the short end must stay at the back of the winder. Once that’s done, connect the remaining parts of the roller blind sidewinder with the inner screws. Roll the blind around the inner tube before pressing the winder sections into each of its ends. Place the end knobs of the chain into the clip holes to connect the chain and to close the hinge firmly. Attach the brackets to the window frame and slot the roller into the brackets.

Most sidewinder roller blind mechanism kit will include a small clip to be attached to the chain. It stops the roller at the correct positions as you roll it up.