Why Shutters Are Definitely A Better Option Than Curtains For Your Home
If you are planning some home decorating in the New Year, your attention may soon move to the windows. The issue of whether to have blinds or curtains is a common one.
Of course, the likelihood of you buying window shutters in Brighton will rise if you already have them and simply want to renew what you have with a different style or simply replace them after years of wear and tear. However, other householders may currently have curtains and want to consider the benefits of the alternative.
As Shutters Up argues, there is one great advantage to having shutters over curtains. Shutters are stylish and never go out of fashion, as they exist in a finite number of styles that have been popular from centuries ago right up to the present day. They are simple, understated and attractive. Curtains, by contrast, come in patterns and designs that can soon fall out of fashion.
The site adds that curtains also require more cleaning and cannot easily be tailored to fit windows of a certain shape.
Comparing the options of shutters, blinds and curtains, the Window Shutter Company put shutters ahead of the others for style, while noting the extra design choice curtains offer. However, that very choice is the hostage to fashion fortune that Shutters Up has pinpointed as a disadvantage.
Shutters certainly come out on top when comparing the ability to block out sunlight, as they can be opened to different extents and even be organised in a two-tier Louvre configuration that means they stay closed lower down for privacy while allowing in lots of light higher up. This flexibility is something the alternatives cannot possibly match.
Perhaps most significantly given the current energy crisis, it noted that studies such as one carried out by Historic England have shown that when tailored to fit the window, shutters are actually better at keeping the heat in the room than curtains or blinds.
So when everything is added together, it really does look like blinds are a better option than curtains.
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