Choosing the Right Plantation Shutters

Have you ever taken a drive into the more prominent neighborhoods, just to admire the beautiful architecture of the homes and their landscaping detail? May be you noticed the window treatments in the longer windows, and archways, that had you thinking to yourself those blinds look awesome, but they could not be blinds as they were more beautiful than an ordinary blinds. What you were looking at was most likely the plantation shutters the homeowner had installed into their home. More and more people are discovering the beauty that these shutters will add to the exterior and interior of their home.

When it comes to window treatments, plantation shutters are the best choice when it comes down to wanting versatility and durability without sacrificing the beauty a window treatment can provide in your home. The shutters are so versatile that they will compliment any homes decor like country, traditional and the contemporary. Plantation window shutters can be used to cover any type of indoor window like: French doors, closets, curved arches, elongated arched, circles and bay windows to name a few. For those windows in your home that have an odd shape and size to them, you can have these interior plantation shutters custom built to fit the windows you want to cover.

Plantation shutters at one time were only manufactured using wood, but today with the use of modern materials we now have the choice of faux wood and vinyl. If you are the type of person who loves the look and feel of real wood, in the plantation shutters you have a few different options to choose from.

First there are the designer wood plantation shutters which are manufactured using Western Red Alder. Manufacturers choose the Red Alder for the fact that the wood is easy to work with and will provide the manufacture with a great heirloom type finish. For plantation shutter manufacturers is it the end result of their finished product that makes the Red Alder more appealing for their designer shutters. Depending on what type of finish is used, the end result will produce either a light gold or an early cherry look. This shutter is considered the top of line and will cost the consumer more to purchase.

The next choice is the premium wood plantation shutter; this shutter is primarily manufactured using basswood and other hardwoods that will provide a furniture quality finish. Then you have your value wood shutters or discount plantation shutters which are manufactured using the same materials of basswood and hardwood, with this shutter you will receive your basic shutter with no furniture quality finish, and the cost is much less to the consumer. Therefore, it is a great choice for those looking for cheap plantation shutters.

Faux plantation shutters or Faux wood plantation shutters are preferred by many people for the ease of care. These shutters are manufactured with man made materials that display the real look of wood, but being they are textured vinyl you will not have the cracking, splitting, or warping that you would get from the regular wood shutters when they are exposed to extreme heat from the sun. In general they come in two colors of white and golden oak, both which are paint-able to compliment your room’s decor.

The vinyl plantation shutters are appealing in the fact that they offer the consumer a savings of 20 to 40 percent over the cost of the wood shutters. Some vinyl shutters are made using the material polyresin3 which is fire retardant, washable and impossible to destroy. The advantages with vinyl shutters is they will not warp, shrink, chip, peel or fade, meaning virtually no maintenance and a lifetime of beauty.

The Hunter Douglas Company manufactures several types of plantation shutters. Hunter Douglas plantation shutters are very unique. For their shutter that are manufactured using man made materials they offer to the consumer the choice of their Newstyle Hybrid plantation shutter, and their Palm Beach poly satin shutter. Both of these shutters are durable, and will last a lifetime while adding that extra beauty to your windows and rooms that you desire.

It is no wonder why people often choose the plantation window shutter over the traditional window coverings as they offer so much more. With all the options the consumer has when looking to purchase these window coverings, one can not help but to fall in love with them. There is no other window covering that will provide us with our privacy without sacrificing beauty like the plantation shutter.