How To Use Shutters To Transform Your Interior Design

Shutters are the perfect solution for a bath or shower room. The neat profile can sit into a window frame leaving more space in these often small rooms.

They also offer privacy whilst letting in the fresh daylight, making a morning soak the ideal way to unwind at the weekend. Combine half window café style plantation shutters with a painted ceiling and white wooden floor to create a sense of refined beach house Caribbean island style. A mini holiday home without the packing.

Full height wooden shutters are ideal for a newly built property that needs some extra interest and may have some features that you may want to play down, such as UPVC windows that may not suit your decorating style.

Made to measure shutters can turn a featureless, square window into a pretty light filtering focus.

Using solid wood shutters with deep, colours can deliver some serious heritage style points.

If your home is a period property and with some of the wonderful quirks that come with older houses, window shutters can be made to almost any shape, so don’t rule out a difficult window just because it doesn’t follow a regular format.

Modern full height shutters can also bring some period style over what can feel like long, bland expanses of window.

Louvered window shutters can allow in huge amounts of light but when closed, can act almost like a solid wall. By ensuring they are created in narrow panels they can fold back to reveal your view or onto a terrace when the mood (or weather) permits.

You can choose from a range of models from cafe-style shutters, tier on tier shutters to bay window shutters and full height shutters. The type will depend on your window type or specific needs for light control or privacy and your style preference.

Your local Luxaflex® retailer can help you pick the right shutters for your need so don't worry if you are unsure what will work best.

An open en-suite can be a difficult decorating challenge. Where soft bedroom furnishings meet a need for steam and water, there need to be some transitional materials in both practical and style terms, to prevent a jarring jump from one style to another.

These vintage-style tiles and an ornate Edwardian-style sink keep the mood decorative and indulgent but also staunchly functional. Here the use of shutters ties together both rooms stylistically but they can also handle the moist environment.

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