Wooden plantation shutters from
B&Q and The California Co.
transforming your home-together
Design Guides
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From The California Company and B&Q
What do you want your shutters to say about you? You can create a stunning focal point for your room or have your shutters create the final finishing touch – all depending upon the design options you choose!
We’ve put together our top shutters design tips to help you make an informed choice
1. Why are you buying plantation shutters?
What is it that has drawn you to shutters? Have you seen them in a magazine or on your travels and thought ‘shutters are for me!’?
2. Tier on Tier, Café Style or Full Height Shutters?
Our plantation shutters are completely bespoke and made from scratch to your exact specification.
3. Where Should I Mount My Plantation Shutters?
Our measure guides are very simple to follow. However you first need to establish if your windows are best suited to have shutters as an inside or outside mount.
4. How Many Shutter Panels?
Aside from the panel design, colour and slat sizes choices you make, the quantity of shutter panels can create quite a different look for your window and room.
5. Which Colour is Right for You?
Of all the choices you can make, the colour you choose can create quite markedly different looks!
6. Which White Is the Right White?
Our Plantation Shutters are available in a wide spectrum of white painted colours.
7. Poplar Shutters or Elm Shutters?
Our plantation shutters are unique and not available from any other online DIY shutters company.
8. Choosing the Right Shutters Slat Size
We have a wide range of shutter slats to choose from. The smallest we manufacture is 47mm through to the largest at 114mm. In between you have 64mm or 89mm, both of which are the most popular sizes ordered by our customers.
9. Solid Shutters Panels
Plantation shutters have become very popular in recent years but solid shutters, so typical of many period properties, are still a popular choice. You can order your solid shutters in the same range of wood types and range of painted colours and stains as our plantation shutters.
10. Plantation Shutters with Concealed or Regular Tilt Rods?
Our shutter shop offers simple, easy ordering. While we offer a range of different design options, we don’t charge lots of different prices depending upon the options you choose.
Go on to read our introduction to plantation shutters page.
