Plantation Shutters
A shutter is the one window treatment that becomes part of the house instead of hanging in front of it. Louvered panels, hinged to your opening, in a material picked for the room it has to survive. Measured at your window, built to the opening, installed by us.
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Five decisions, and what each one actually changes
Shutters look alike in a showroom. The material decides which rooms they survive, the louver decides how much of your window you still see, and the shape decides whether the opening gets covered or squared off.
Polysatin Shutters →
A solid compound louver, not a wood with a coating on it. Steam off a shower and heat off a stove do nothing to it, so this is the one for the bathroom, the laundry and the window over the kitchen sink.
Hardwood Shutters →
Real wood, and the lightest panel for its size, so a wide window is covered by fewer panels with less frame down the middle. It is also the only one that takes a stain, so pick it when the trim in the room is stained rather than painted.
Hybrid Shutters →
A wood core with a hard exterior over it. Pick it for a kitchen or a family room that reads like a living room, where you want the weight and the grain of wood but wood on its own would struggle.
Louver Sizes →
Wider louvers put less frame in front of the glass, so you keep more of the view when the panels are open. Narrower ones read finer and hold the proportion on a small window or an older house. Decide this at the window, not from a brochure.
Specialty Shapes →
Arches, angles, octagons and circles, built to the opening rather than squared off with a filler panel. Ask for these when any other treatment would leave the top of your window boxed off or covered flat.
Start with the room, then the louver
Almost everyone arrives with one problem window. Pick yours and we'll tell you where we'd start, and the runner-up worth standing next to it.
Polysatin Shutters
Steam off a shower and heat off a stove are what eventually move a wood shutter. Polysatin is a solid compound that absorbs neither, so it will not warp, crack or yellow, and it wipes down with a damp cloth. The Hunter Douglas line is Palm Beach.
Hybrid Shutters
A wood core under a hard face, for a kitchen that reads more like a living room than a wet room.
Hardwood Shutters
Real wood is the only one that takes a stain and lets the grain show through it. If your casings and doors are stained rather than painted, hardwood sits with them instead of beside them. Heritance is the Hunter Douglas hardwood line.
Hybrid Shutters
Paint matched to the trim rather than stained. It is the honest answer in a room where wood would not last.
The 4 1/2 inch louver
Fewer, wider louvers put fewer horizontal lines across the glass, so more of the view survives with the panels open. It suits a tall modern window and looks oversized on a small one.
Hardwood Shutters
Wood is lighter for its size, so a wide opening is covered by fewer panels, with less frame standing in the middle of it.
Specialty Shapes
A shutter can be built to a curve, an octagon or a rake over a staircase and still have louvers that tilt. Most other treatments either square the opening off or hang straight across it and leave the shape behind.
Arch-Top Templated Shades
Softer, and they insulate. The arched section is usually fixed in place though, so only the rectangle below it moves.
Luminette Privacy Sheers
A shutter panel is hinged, so it has to swing into the room, and on the door you walk through every day that is panels in the way. Luminette vanes hang on a track and draw right off the glass, so the doorway stays clear. Put the shutters on the fixed windows either side of it.
Panel Track Blinds
Wide flat panels that slide behind one another and stack over the fixed pane, never over the one you open.
Shutters or blinds?
People weigh the two against each other as if they were the same product. They are not, and the difference decides which one belongs on your window.
A shutter is built into the opening
Framed panels hinged to the window itself. Nothing stacks at the top of the glass, because nothing lifts. It gets painted or stained like the rest of the trim, and it stays with the house.
Choose a shutter when you want the window to look finished rather than covered.
A blind hangs above it
Slats on a headrail. They tilt to aim daylight up at the ceiling or down at the floor, and they lift out of the way completely, stacking at the top of the glass.
Choose a blind when you want the window bare during the day. See blinds →
Shutters we've installed nearby
Real homes across Bergen County and the Tri-State, no stock photography.
Shutter questions
The five that come up in almost every consultation. If the opening is arched, angled or a sliding door, it plays by slightly different rules.
Tell us the room and what is bothering you about the light. We will narrow it to two options in a five-minute call.
What are plantation shutters?
Plantation shutters are framed panels of wide louvers, hinged to the window opening itself. The louvers tilt to aim the daylight, and the panels swing back when you want the whole window. Because they are fixed to the frame rather than hung above it, nothing stacks at the top of the glass and they read as part of the house.
Which shutter material should I get for a bathroom or kitchen?
Polysatin. It is a solid compound that does not absorb moisture, so steam, splashes and afternoon heat will not warp, crack or fade it, and it wipes clean. Keep hardwood for dry rooms, or use a hybrid panel if you want visible grain in a kitchen.
What louver size should I choose?
We fit 2 1/2, 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 inch louvers. Wider louvers mean fewer of them across the window, so you see more view and more daylight when they are open. Narrower louvers read finer and suit small windows and older houses. Closed, every width blocks the same amount, so this is a view and proportion decision, not a privacy one.
Can shutters be made for arched or angled windows?
Yes, and a shutter is one of the few treatments that can. We build the frame to the actual shape of the opening, whether that is an arch, an octagon, a circle or a rake over a staircase. On an arch you can have the curved section fixed as a decorative sunburst, or built with louvers that tilt like the rest of the window.
How much do plantation shutters cost?
Shutters are priced per window. The cost is driven by the size of the opening, the material, the louver width, and whether the shape is square or built to a curve or an angle. We measure and quote every window during the free in-home consultation, in writing, so the number you get is the number you pay.
Visit the showroom
Prefer to see things in person before we come to you? We are on Broad Avenue in Palisades Park, a few minutes from Fort Lee and the GWB.
- 547 Broad AvenuePalisades Park, NJ 07650
- Mon–Fri 10–7 · Sat 10–5Closed Sunday
- (201) 302-9111We usually pick up on the first ring