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.

Louvre Shutters – Great Way To Decorate Your Windows

Apollo Blinds offers highly innovative Louvre shutter systems for traditional as well as modern building designs. Our louvre shutter systems has a wide range of uses ranging from acting as a screen from the prying eyes of passers by and neighbours to providing sun protection and regulate the indoor climate and even save on electricity. More over, Louvre shutter from Apollo blinds comes in a variety of shapes, colours and sizes.

If you haven’t yet used a window shutter or are not quite sure how it differs from traditional window blinds, a Louvre shutter is a solid wooden frame with vertical slates and horizontal rails (top, centre and bottom). Within this frame are panels which are either fixed or operable – can be opened or closed. These panels are made from a variety of materials including aluminium, fabric, glass, timber (including bamboo).

Initially, a Louvre shutter was designed to protect castles from arrows fired at castles. The panels were slanted downwards so residents of the castle could look out but attackers of the castle could neither look inside nor fire arrows into the castle or palace. Overtime, this innovative design underwent changes.

Today the Louvre shutter panels are usually operable via a lever or cord or may even be motorised and remotely controlled. When shut, the panels almost completely prevent entry of light into the room. The panels can be shut or opened to various degrees thereby effectively controlling the amount of light entering the room. Because the panels are slanted, a partly opened Louvre shutter allows light to enter the room but not sunlight itself. The room therefore is lit up without the heat from the sun’s rays. This helps keep the room relatively cool and helps you cut air conditioning costs. A partially open louvre shutter also prevents passers by and neighbours from looking into the house.

Apollo Blinds (17 locations in Australia), offers modern Louvre Shutters Ringwood with options in material, size, design and colour. This fantastic combination enables the buyer to perfectly match the Louvre shutters with the window and the house it definitely is a great way to decorate your windows and your house.

Louvre Shutters Richmond can also be fitted to doors. When fitted to doors within the house, it provides privacy but at the same time, enables ventilation. If Louvre shutters are made for doors, they can be custom made in timber or even faux wood and the colour made to match your doors as required. Apart from custom ordering your requirement for doors with Louvre shutters, ready-made doors with pre-fitted Louvre shutters are also available.

Apollo Blinds is one of Australia’s largest stockist of Louvre shutters and you are guaranteed to find the perfect match to decorate your windows and doors. You can also visit them at: http://apolloblinds.com.au