Plantation Shutters in Fletcher & the New Estates
Handover day gives you keys and a house full of bare glass. Builders' allowances rarely stretch to window furnishings, so out here the shutter question arrives all at once, every room, one budget, and the win is planning it as one order instead of buying it room by room at retail pace.
How to order once and get it right everywhere
Start with the big opening. The living-area slider is the hardest and most visible window in the house, and its answer, usually bi-fold or bypass panels with 114 mm blades and hidden tilt, sets the language everything else follows. Our doors and wide openings page covers the mechanics.
Then the street face. Front bedrooms and studies facing the estate road want privacy without gloom: wide blades still work, tilted up, and a mid-rail earns its place on any window with a footpath outside.
Then the wet rooms. Ensuite, main bathroom, laundry: PVC, no exceptions worth making. Same look as the rest of the house, none of the steam anxiety.
Then decide where to stop. An honest guide says it: not every window in a new build needs a shutter on day one. Theatre rooms sometimes want blockout blinds instead, and garage windows rarely justify joinery. A plan that names what to skip is worth as much as one that names what to buy.
Why the tool was built for this exact job
Our Talk It Through tool takes one room at a time: tell it the light and what you want from the room, and it reasons out the material, blade and tilt with the why attached, then keeps each one as a note you carry into the enquiry. For a Fletcher fit-out that's the difference between an enquiry that says "shutters please?" and one that says "eleven openings, here's the thinking on each, check it and quote it." The measure visit starts halfway finished, and so does the quote.
Two practical notes for new builds: shutters are a post-handover trade (your builder's warranty inspections come first, and openings need their final architraves), and if the render or paint is still finishing outside, interior shutters don't care. Book the measure whenever the inside walls are done.
Every good fit-out starts with a measure
Tell us about your windows and the rooms behind them. A local provider working with us will arrange a free in-home measure, talk through materials and louvre sizes on the spot, and quote the job properly. Every window is made to measure, so the quote comes after the tape, not before.
We don't publish a phone number. The form is our front door, and it means your details go straight to the people who will actually measure your windows.