Other Uses For Shutters Apart From Covering Windows in Riverside

December 11, 2019

If you use plantation shutters in your home, you know how easy to clean, energy-efficient, and charming they are. But did you know the other ways to use shutters -- plantation and otherwise -- that will benefit other areas of your Riverside home?

Innovative homeowners will use shutters beyond just window coverings. If you love plantation shutters, here are a few novel ideas for other places to install interior shutters in different ways in your house.

Shutters Can Hide Your Sliding Glass Doors

[Polywood|Plantation|Interior ]211] shutters on a sliding glass door in Riverside

While homeowners in Riverside ask for plantation shutters on their windows, they are also the perfect covering for doors of all types. Shutters can adequately cover sliding doors and french doors and give wonderful light control, privacy, and temperature control. Plantation shutters like our Polywood® shutters are extremely easy to clean and durable enough to hold up to your family entering and leaving on a constant basis.

Plantation shutters can also be a stylish option for otherwise plain interior doors. Replace doors in pantries, closets, or more with plantation shutters. The easy-to-operate louvers can keep your clothes or food hidden away.

Plantation shutters as a room divider for a showroom

Photo courtesy of Room Resolutions

Plantation shutters can also be used as an accordion door or room divider. You just shut the panels and louvers during the times you need privacy, muffle noise, or block drafts.

Shutters Can Help With Passthroughs And Cutouts

Wood shutters framing out a passthrough

Occasionally when a home doesn’t have a truly open concept, there is a passthrough or cutout connecting the kitchen and a dining or family room. Ideally, they allow things like food or plates to flow from one room to the next. And they can help open up your decor by opening up the area just a bit.

Plantation shutters offer some enhancement to your passthrough or cutout. If the cutout doesn’t have a countertop on the bottom lip, you can use the shutters to frame the cutout as if it was a window. When cooking gets a bit too noisy, you can just close off the shutters to reduce the offending sound. Finding closed treatments also might mean that the cook is done for the night!

Even More Uses For Shutters

Barn-door shutters framing a flat-screen TV in Riverside.

Once you start looking at shutters as an all-purpose covering, you can begin seeing innovative uses for shutters. For instance, for a hanging flat-screen television, shutters can effectively hide it from sight when you’re done watching your shows. This concept can also transfer over to other shutter products, like barn door shutters. You can even be able to use some shutters as doors on a cabinet or storage shelf.

If you love your shutters, consult your shutter rep about other uses for shutters in your Riverside home. They can help you explore your options to bring the benefits of plantation shutters to new areas of your home.

Need A Hand Picking Shutters To Enhance Your Riverside Home?

If you’re ready to get creative with shutters in your home, Sunburst Shutters can help. Just contact us at 951-517-3030 or complete the form below to schedule a no-cost in-home consultation. We’ll examine your wants and show samples of our selection of premium shutters.

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