Changing your home’s interior decor can be as easy as pairing
plantation shutters with beautiful curtains. The key to success is to
align your curtain fabric choice and rod style with your decorating
tastes. Attain a traditional or formal look by selecting curtains that
blend or complement your shutter color. For a more casual look
experiment with a wider range of colors and patterns.
Whether traditional, formal or casual, you’ll make your plantation
shutter and fabric combinations work seamlessly by hanging your
curtains strategically — the right rod, with the right fabric fullness,
hung at the right height. An excellent choice is near ceiling-to-floor
length side panels hung so they’ll cover the window frames but do not
interference with the opening of your shutters.
While curtains can certainly enhance the overall appeal of your
decorating scheme, plantation shutters are definitely stylish enough
and beautiful enough to stand-alone as a captivating decorative
element.
If only a portion of your window budget will cover plantation shutters,
buy them for the rooms across the front of your house and purchase
less costly window treatments for the back and sides of your home.
Shutters in windows that can be easily seen from the street creates a
uniform appearance and add wonderful curb appeal.
Tip: If you’re using plantation shutters only across the front, be
consistent. If there’s a corner room with windows on a side wall — all
the windows in that corner room should have plantation shutters.
The material of which your plantation shutters are made plays a
crucial role in their durability and appearance. Whether stained or
painted, wooden shutters provide a timeless classic look. But in high
humidity rooms or climates, do yourself a solid by opting for moistureresistant materials like a polyresin shutter, whose composite materials
ensures longevity without warping or damage.
You have several great options with plantation shutters; one of the
best is their vanes sizes: 2.5”, 3”, 3.5”,4”, or 4.5”, which is a big stepup from 2” window blind slats.
A horizontal divider rail can be used to separate your plantation
shutter’s upper and lower vanes allowing you to move the top and
bottom vanes independently, giving both privacy and light control.
Divider rails strengthen long panels, though some prefer the seamless
look of shutters without them.
Plantation shutters look cleaner and offer better insulation when
installed inside a window frame. Outside mounts on the frame may be
a better option for smaller, shallower frames. Magnets (instead of
hinges) hold removable shutters firmly in place over a kitchen sink
window where a high goose-neck faucet or a hanging light would
prevent a hinged shutter from opening.
A modern plantation shutter feature is a hidden tilt control on the
backside, which enables a large unobstructed view by eliminating the
traditional middle front control rod.
You really can’t go wrong with plantation shutters whether with
curtains or without them. Shutters are timeless beauties that will never
ever go out of style.
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