Plantation Shutters

Plantation window shutters are so named because of their similarity to the external wooden window shutters that were found on American Plantations, to prevent the heat from filtering into the internal rooms of the house.

Now used predominantly inside the home, wooden plantation shutters add an elegant, classic look to a room's décor, offering privacy, ventilation and lighting versatility.

Colonial Shutters

Plantation shutters are often referred to as wooden colonial shutters, but strictly speaking, Colonial Shutters refer to external window wooden shutters, whereas plantation shutters are now considered to be internal wooden shutters.

Types of Wood Plantation Shutters

Café Plantation Shutters

Not all shutters are designer to cover the entire height of the window opening. Café plantation shutters, (or Café style shutters, as they are also known), cover only a portion of the window opening. Wooden Café shutters tend to be used when you want to maximise the amount of light streaming into the room, but the café shutters retain the privacy that wooden shutters afford you.

Full Height Plantation Shutters

A full height window shutter set covers the entire window opening from top to bottom.

Tier on Tier Plantation Shutters

A Tier on Tier shutter set is where two or more shutters are utilised to cover the entire height of the window shutter

Full Height Concertina Shutters

Occasionally, windows are too wide for two full height shutters to cover the width of the window and it is necessary to use hinged folding wooden shutters to achieve full window coverage. This style of shutter is known as the concertina plantation shutter.

Tier on Tier Concertina Shutters

Although very rare, there are occasions where several shutters are required to fill a window space in both height and width, on these occasions, the choice would be tier on tier concertina shutters. This style of shutter can be awkward to fit and is only used where no other alternative can be found.

Materials used in Plantation Shutters

There are two types of plantation shutters you can get - MDF shutters and wood shutters. The majority of plantation shutters are made from wood, with a large proportion of the market being for wooden shutters, painted to a colour to suit the décor of the room; white plantation shutters being the most popular in the marketplace.

There are alternatives to solid wood shutters, with the most popular being painted MDF or coated MDF shutters. These MDF shutters tend to be less expensive than solid wood plantation shutters, but when you consider the costs of curtains and curtain poles these days, the MDF shutters option becomes very cost effective. Here at Shutters Direct we can offer these MDF shutters.