How to design the perfect shutters for your room
As a custom-made product, you will design your shutters around the needs of each room and the interior décor that have been selected for that space. The way you make design choices about your shutters can help to ensure that your completed shutters are the perfect addition to the room and will leave you wondering what you ever did without them. Here’s some tips on designing the ideal shutters for your room to achieve exactly what you need with the shutter aesthetics.
Start with style
Shutter style is a great starting point to ensure that the very best shutter finish for your room is in place. Consider what you are trying to achieve in the room with the shutters and use this to decide on the best style option from there. For example, in bedroom shutters where light control is likely a key consideration, full height or tier on tier shutters to completely cover the area will be favoured.
In living rooms and other communal spaces, shutters may have more decorative and privacy enhancing intentions in which case café style shutters will be the ideal choice.
The style of shutter you choose has a direct influence on other choices including material choice.
How do you want the shutters to feature?
There are two ways that shutters can be featured in a room – as a bold, stand-out feature or a luxury neutral addition that will match to the window space. Colour has a direct impact on how bold shutters appear with white and neutral options used to blend into the space and brighter, more eye-catching tones making more of a design statement in the space.
Homeowners with a colour in mind might find themselves guided to a particular material choice based on the varying standard or custom colour choices are available in each material.
Material finishes
If you haven’t been lead to a material from colour choices or style requirements, you may make a decision on material based on the needs of each particular room. For example, in bathrooms, wet rooms, or kitchens where high levels of moisture may be present, we would always recommend our waterproof material as the most suitable option to ensure a brilliant longevity of the shutters. In busy family homes, a strong and robust material choice may be preferable if you expect the shutters to be exposed to a little rougher usage than others.
The desired texture finish of slats and panels may also have an impact on which material is selected. In timber materials, a textured grain finish sets the luxury finish of natural materials apart in both the stained and painted finishes. Craftwood MDF and Waterproof have smooth finishes on slats and panels due to the coatings that are included on the materials as a standard.
All the extras
The complete look of your shutters isn’t just about style and material, the design of the shutter will also be determined by the inclusion, or exclusion, of any additional extras that are available on shutters. The most commonly considered of extra features of shutters is the choice of which tilt mechanism is manufactured into the shutters.
Tilt mechanism dictates whether shutters feature a rod on the front of panels to operate louvres or whether there is a more simplistic aesthetic with slats operated by simply tilting a single slat and the rest within the section move with it in unison. If your room embodies a more traditional finish then usually opting for a centered tilt rod option is preferred as this creates a more classic look to the shutter and will allow it to blend seamlessly into the space whereas modern and contemporary interiors often best match the hidden interior mechanism as this creates a simple and clean finish to the overall aesthetic of the shutter.
Other extras include metallic or hidden hinges, locks and bolts and even extra possibilities including remote control shutters and auto-closing panels.
Look into the future
A key thing to consider to ensure that shutters are perfect for each room is whether the décor of that particular room will change in the future. Choosing shutter designs that will stand the test of time in the room is always the most economic way to install this luxury dressing to a space. Interior shutters are exceptionally long-lasting, so opting for finishes that still allow changes to be made to the surrounds will ensure that these remain comfortably in place for many years to come.
To start the process of transforming your windows and home with some stunning new shutters, get in touch with our team on 020 8871 9333. Booking in for a full survey with one of experts will allow us to go through each step of your shutter designs as well as taking accurate measurements to provide a quote.