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Video Highlights
0:19 – Why do I love plantation shutters?
1:09 – So why are shutters versatile?
2:19 – Shutters can make a corner of a window look flawless
2:48 – Have a tricky window you need to cover?
3:30 – Leaving shutters half open and half shut, you have control!
Transcription
Hi I’m Jason from the brand Blockout Blinds and today I’m here to talk about the versatility of plantation shutters.
0:19 – Why do I love plantation shutters?
Now if you know me you would know that I absolutely love plantation shutters, I think they are the bee’s knees of all blinds.
If it was up to me we would just sell shutters. But they aren’t for anyone. Why do I like them?
They are just so versatile and they look fantastic. Just to prove to you I love them, here’s a photo of the front room at my house before I had shutters. And as you can see, we have these Austrian dust gatherers things hanging up on our windows. And I put up with them for many years and two years ago I decided to bite the bullet and get some shutters.So have a look at this next photo, this is the after photo of my shutters.
The room looks more open, much bigger. And they just look so much better!
1:09 – So why are shutters versatile?
Lets just go through a few more pictures. And I will explain why. As you can see in the current picture we’ve got going, we have the louvers in a semi open position. In the next photo we have the bottom louvers shut so people can’t see in to my house. And the top louvers open to let some light in. So that’s one of the flexibilities that we have with shutters. Now lets have a look at another picture here. So we have some white shutters over a door area, and they are in a format that’s called a bi-folding sliding shutter. So that means they bi-fold up and they are on a sliding track, just like a sliding door would be on a track.
So here you can see the shutters, we’ve got two panels that Constantine off to the right and four to the left and they are designed for doorways. So we have sliding shutters over doorways, and in this next photo it’s just the door around the corner, but it just shows the same configuration with them all shut. Which looks absolutely fantastic.
2:19 – Shutters can make a corner of a window look flawless
Now another problem we have with blinds in general is doing corners, its not quiet easy to get them right. So lets have a look at this photo here, at a friend of mines house that we did. And you can see we’ve done a corner window and shutters just look great in corners. We can get them to bud up nice and neat in the corner, by putting a corner post in. And they look absolutely amazing!
2:48 – Have a tricky window that you need to cover?
And this next photo, a similar shutter on a normal window. So nothing new there, probably something you’ve already seen before. In this next photo, oh look – what do you notice? Well the window is racked at the top, these days there’s not a lot of blinds you can put on a racked windows. You could do vertical blinds, not ideal and don’t always look to the best. And there’s not too many options, but shutters look amazing.
I mean look at that – we’ve turned a racked window a big feature. And this next photo here, is just a similar situation reversed. And the windows are not as high. And you can see that it looks fantastic.
3:30 – Leaving shutters half open and half shut, you have control!
Now in this last photo here, we have a big massive area. Once again its just showing you the versatility being able to open some louvers and shut others. There’s no blind that gives you the versatility of a shutter, in terms of controlling the light. You can have some louvers down, some up. Some half shut, some fully shut. So it’s really up to you to tailor how you want to have the shutters in each part of the day to create the look inside your home that you want. And also you can adjust them so you can get the privacy that you need from the outside as well.
So there you go, I love shutters – I hope you love shutters as well. And I just wanted to share with you some of the different scenarios that shutters are used for. Which is why here at Blockout Blinds think their one of the most versatile options around for your windows. I hope you found that usefully and until next time!
