Talk to me about shutters

[Blondiney]

Love the look of them, seem a lot fresher than big, heavy old curtains. Are they considered a bit old hat now though?

Big, heavy old curtains are probably going to be back in favour by the time I get around to installing shutters.

Are they hideously expensive? Most importantly, are they dust magnets, my house is less than spick and span shall we say.

We have them on the back of our south westerly facing house, still look good as new after 12 years so whilst the initial outlay is expensive, they have more than outlived any curtains and I would have probably spent just as much replacing curtains over the time. They do get dusty but at least you can see it and clean it, they are in DD’s bedroom who suffers with dust allergy’s so at least we can keep her room relatively dust free. She doesn’t need a blackout blind as being at back of the house there’s no street lights but I have friend who has them fitted with a blackout roller blind between the window and shutters. We have ours on plain glass windows, don’t like seeing them used with leaded lights, just looks messy and odd, too many influences meeting.

We have ours on plain glass windows, don’t like seeing them used with leaded lights, just looks messy and odd, too many influences meeting. Do people do that? Yikes! That would be a definite no no.

I paid 650 for mine (nearly 10 years ago, mind) - the curtains for my bedroom were double that and I wish I'd put shutters in there instead. Dust is a bit of a faff, you just need one of those long dusters that you poke in.

I live on a busy street and they're fab for people not peering in. I couldn't face nets.

I got these for the kitchen, they are extra wide slats, and give the same impression but much cheaper than shutters, in real life they are lovely.

www.blinds-2go.co.uk/wooden-blinds/5622/antique-white-and-oyster.html

[quote Bluntness100]I got these for the kitchen, they are extra wide slats, and give the same impression but much cheaper than shutters, in real life they are lovely.

www.blinds-2go.co.uk/wooden-blinds/5622/antique-white-and-oyster.html[/quote]
Now they're rather nice, could be a good compromise. Thank you

Shutters are timeless, in my view, and won’t pass. We love ours, installed 10 years ago, front window, mid-terrace, £2k. Well worth it!

Are your shutters inside the house? I like the type that are outside. No problem with dust then.

My shutters were cheaper than having big, fully lined curtains. I have big windows. They are fab if you go away because you semi close them and people can't see through but it isn't obvious at night if no one in. They do need cleaning - I do mine about once a quarter. Some I leave shut across and just open the actual slats each day. Other times I open them out completely and that lets loads of light in.

I would deffo have them again.

Not as expensive as I thought, we are having ours installed next week £1300 for two large bays (bungalow) lovely quality hardwood- we are south coast.
I hate net curtains though, and the bays are our bedrooms at the front so offers decent bit of privacy and stop the sun waking me up at 6 like this morning.

I absolutely love shutters, they are timeless. We used a company called Shutterlab
www.facebook.com/ShutterLabUK/
Highly recommended!

Ours were about 3k but they are enormous, close to 3m in height. Smaller ones would be less I'm sure. One set are in the bedroom and they block out the light really well.

I know they are likely to go out of fashion but I know them (along with my kitchen island )! We got the mid size slats as the thin ones look a bit cheaper imo and for 3 double windows and 1 triple they cost us £2k so at £500 per window I'm ok with that relative to the blind/curtain alternative. None of us have anything more than just shutters in the bedroom - it doesn't bother me or DH but now early mornings are with us (only had them installed over winter) we may look at getting a blind in the dcs room. You need an ostrich duster which I just whizz over every few weeks.

I think you'd appreciate them in the summer. We have aluminium Venetian type blinds and in the summer you want them closed to keep the sun out, but any through breeze just bangs them about and almost sucks them out of the window.