Quick Answer: Shutters are a perfect solution for large windows. Not only do they offer improved control over light and privacy, but they also free up floor space inside your home. There’s a style and mounting option to suit any window – and they are proven to reduce heat loss, keeping energy costs down.

As windows get larger, the ways of effectively and attractively dressing them get fewer. With this in mind, our design team members often talk to customers about the advantages of using plantation shutters on large windows.

Here, we’ll look at all of these advantages – including why wooden shutters offer more flexibility than curtains, how they can positively impact fuel bills, and how shutters can be a huge time-saver when it comes to cleaning and tidying your home!

Shutters offer improved light control

Larger windows bring more light into your home. While this sounds like it has no downsides, you’ll probably reconsider if you find yourself with the sun in your eyes on a sunny day.

Light can be fantastic, but only when we control it. This is precisely what shutters offer.

You can fine-tune the amount of light coming into your room by adjusting your shutters’ louvres. If you’d like to enjoy as much sunshine as possible, swing open your shutters on their hinges – or completely slide-back tracked shutters.

You can even have shutters for large windows made with two or more louvres panels in each section – separated by a mid-rail. The mid-rail allows for different sections of louvres to be controlled independently, increasing lighting control again.

Of course, curtains offer light control too – but they’re far more of an ‘all-or-nothing’ method. Sure, you can keep adjusting each curtain as the sun moves across the sky – but not convenient! At ease.

Large window shutters increase kerb appeal.

Window treatments are generally designed to look attractive inside your home. The backs of blinds and curtains can detract from how your home looks.

Unlike most window covering options, shutters look great from all angles.

In fact, not only do shutters look equally as good to passers-by as they do inside your home, but they also bring a pleasing symmetry to a property. A mix of blinds, curtains, and shutters can make a home look disorganised – but shutters throughout look especially considered and neat.

Shutters don’t eat into your floor space.

If you’ve ever considered rearranging your living space but found your options limited, shutters for large windows can be a big help.

Most of the time, windows don’t stop you from putting furniture in different places. However, when you consider where your curtains will rest and how to get them to open and close, you run into problems.

Since new shutters will attach directly to your window frames or sit on tracks just in front of wide windows, they create more space in your room. In turn, this allows for lots of different furniture configurations to experiment with.

There’s a huge range of shutter styles for large windows

Large windows offer ultimate flexibility when it comes to choosing a shutter style.

You might decide that you’re going to cover the entire window opening with full-height shutters. Then again, you might decide that you’d like to keep the natural light at the top of the window and opt for cafe shutters.

Of course, you could go for a ‘best of both worlds’ solution and choose tier-on-tier shutters with an independently opening upper and lower portion.