Show-CaseShutters.com

The Best Custom Plantation Shutters for Your Home or Business

You are here: Home / Archives for hunter douglas

By Leave a Comment

Window Treatments With Beauty & Value

Plantation Shutters are the most beautiful architectural statement regarding window treatments you can add to your home’s windows

Show-Case Shutters being handmade in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

Show-Case Shutters, located in Christiansburg, Virginia, handcraft their Plantation Shutters with quality and attention to detail. Our Plantation Shutters are American-made with solid wood components and come in a wide variety of stains and painted finishes.  Options that allow you to be very creative with your window treatments.

Beyond that, when your window treatments include interior shutters your room will have an exclusive, stately look. You will also be better able to perfectly control the natural light. Plantation Shutters provide a range of benefits while enhancing the beauty and use of any room.

Benefits with Plantation Shutters as Window Treatments

Show-Case Shutters offers a full “no liability” service that takes the worry out of buying interior shutters.
  • Energy Savings – Minimize heat loss and gain. Control the amount of sunlight coming in by angling the blades to control the amount sunlight that enters the room.
  • UV Protection – Protect your valuable furniture and floor finish from harmful UV rays. Sunlight can fade and discolor your home décor investment. Simply by adjusting the angle of the shutter blades upward, you reflect the natural light towards the ceiling without directly impacting on your home’s décor. The plantation shutters allow you the filter or block up to 99% of the sunlight.
  • Increase Privacy and Security – Privacy with beauty. Show-Case Shutters offers a mid-rail design that allows to independently operate both halves of the shutter.  This is done to control the natural light. This greatly enhances the use of any room day or night. For total privacy you can close both lower and upper sections.
  • Easy Maintenance and Health Benefits – Plantation Shutters require minimal cleaning. Regular dusting is all that is necessary to keep them looking new. Shutters are a perfect choice for those with allergies or asthma to keep dust levels to a minimum.
  • Home Value – Increase the value of your home with plantation shutters. Interior shutters are the only window treatments that can be included in your home mortgage or appraisal because they are permanently attached.
  • Controlling Natural Light – Finally, plantation shutters allow you to regulate the amount of sunlight that enters the room.  This creates a pleasing glow of light instead of an annoying glare.

By Leave a Comment

Custom Oak Shutters

Stained oak shutters is an expensive route to go; but worth it in the end.

When it comes to the best of the best – in regards to plantation shutters, oak shutters are hard to beat.

Typically, quality plantation shutters are manufactured using two types of wood:  Basswood and American Poplar.  The poplar is typically used for a paint finish.  Basswood is reserved for stain finishes.

That doesn’t mean that is your only route.  Other popular woods used are alder wood, for it’s red finish, as well as oak and cherry – for their obvious respective finishes.

Solid Oak Shutters

Of course when you start dabbling into more expensive hardwoods it is not so you can paint them.  Stain, usually highlighting the natural color of the wood, is the way to go.

The client above used a clear finish to perfectly match the oak trim.  This is the most common route when using these types of wood.

Keep in mind, however, there is a reason why plantation shutter lovers use the standards – which always revolve around cost and weight.

Oak, while gorgeous beyond belief, is extremely heavy and very expensive.  These two factors alone should make any potential buyer take a second look to ensure these more exotic hardwoods are, in fact, the direction you want to go.

 

 

 

Follow Us