If you're lucky enough to enjoy a balcony on your home, you may be wondering how to dress the balcony window. Interior balcony shutters make a great option for many reasons.
Here's why you should consider fitting interior shutters to your balcony windows.
1. Aesthetics and flexibility
Shutters can really add character to a room and enhance it. Timber shutters can be painted or stained to complement your interior décor scheme and metal shutters can be purchased ready-coloured for ease of maintenance.
Custom-made shutters are very flexible and can be easily adapted to fit any style of balcony window from straight across to bay, unlike curtains or blinds that can be problematic to fit.
2. Light and noise control
When you have curtains or blinds fitted to your balcony windows, you either have to have them open or closed. On hot, sunny days this means that you have to shut out the sun, leaving your room dark. Leaving your curtains or blinds open means that, although you can enjoy the view from your balcony, passers-by and neighbours can look in.
Shutters allow you to adjust the louvres to allow as much or as little light to enter the room as you wish and to give you privacy without blocking out the view. You can also choose from panelled shutters where you can open the top or bottom or both at the same time.
If your balcony looks out onto a noisy main road, shutters can help to deaden the sound more effectively than blinds or curtains.
3. Money saving
Shutters are extremely effective at providing insulation for your home. This is particularly important when you have a large window opening out onto a balcony, as lots of heat can be lost through the large panes of glass on cold winter days. In the summer months when the weather is very hot, closing the shutters can help to keep unwanted heat and strong sunlight out, easing the burden on your air conditioning system.
4. Maintenance and cleaning
Interior balcony shutters are easy to maintain and keep clean. A quick flick over with a duster or a light vacuuming each week will help to keep dust and cobwebs down. Follow this by wiping the shutters over with a damp cloth. Cleaning shutters is so much easier than washing curtains and there's no danger of shrinkage or colour running.
These are just a few of the many advantages of fitting shutters to your balcony windows. For more advice and information, have a chat with a good local supplier, such as Shutterflex.
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