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Shutters V’s Curtains

Did you ever consider beautifying your home with shutters from Shutters Direct  instead of curtains? If you haven’t as yet, you should. Considering every aspect of differences, advantages and disadvantages of the former over the latter, it’s high time you should think of using shutters in your homes. 

Shutters are solid, secure window coverings, generally consisting of a framework with perpendicular stiles and flat rails placed at the center, top and bottom. They can be used for a wide range of purposes. Shutters help to control the amount of sunlight entering a room apart from blocking it from getting scattered to different rooms or other areas. It also shields rooms from unfavorable weather conditions, as well as improves the sense of aesthetics in buildings. Depending on the purpose and the structure of the window framework, shutters can be used to fit within gaps or to restructure openings that overlap with each other. Shutters can be used both for interior as well as exterior purposes and are designed accordingly to suit the needs whether inside a house or a building or on the outer surface of a house respectively. 

Curtains on the other hand are made out to block light, draft and water. Curtains are used more for conventional reasons, and hung up to give a conventionally decorative   look to houses. Curtains are mostly draped within to provide privacy, blockage of light, or to prevent light from escaping outside the structure. Curtains come in a variety of materials, shapes, colors, sizes and patterns. Curtains give a complete and overall outward show to the houses.   

Advantages of shutters over curtains

Interior and exterior shutters are exceedingly durable and last a lifetime giving good services.  Comparatively, curtains do not give a life long performance and are often very expensive to purchase time and again. Shutters have a staged impact on the interior designing of an architecture which can decorate existing furniture, emphasize wall colors, and even enhance the creative flair. Curtains only add to the decoration of houses and furnishings but cannot provide durability and life long stability.    

Shutters increase the energy efficiency of the home by adding additional amount of insulation on windows, especially old, drafty, single-paned windows and large expanses of glass such as picture windows and sliding glass doors. Shutters are easy to clean, with no stain or dirt to scrub off. Generally it requires a simple cleaning with a damp cloth on a cyclic basis. Curtains on the other hand, absorb dirt very easily, and need a thorough cleaning. That is the reason the durability of the curtain life is too short as compared to the shutters.