Plantation Shutters Ireland

At Myblinds, we have over seven years experience in surveying and fitting custom made Plantation Shutters in Irish homes. Call us now on 1890 200 800 to enquire about our plantation shutters. Alternatively, you may email us at sales@myblinds.ie.

Our interior shutters are hand crafted using the finest quality materials, including cedar, phoenixwood and basswood. Plantation shutters are an excellent investment, lasting for years and adding value to your home. Our shutters create a stunning visual effect, framing your windows perfectly and bringing warmth and style to your living spaces. Beautiful wooden shutters never go out of style and provide a modern and stylish finishing touch to any home.

 There are many practical considerations that make plantation shutters an excellent solution as window coverings. Plantation Shutters are easy to clean and built to last, both important considerations when investing in home furnishings. Shutters allow you to control the amount of light entering your living space, either by adjusting the angle of the slats or by folding back the shutters completely.

During the summer months, wooden shutters can create shade and protect from glare while allowing air to circulate. In winter the additional layer of insulation provided by plantation shutters can help to save energy and reduce heating costs. Plantation Shutters can also be used to create privacy, particularly useful for ground floor windows or areas where you may be overlooked.

Three different Plantation Shutter styles are available:

Full-height shutters cover the entire window, and are also suitable for french doors.

Café-style shutters cover only the bottom half of the window, maximising light while creating a little privacy.

Tier-on-tier shutters are also available, consisting of two sets of shutters, one set fitted above the other and each set operating independently of each other.

In addition to the different styles and colours, we have a choice of louvre blade sizes, within each of our ranges below. With our wide range of options and styles, we are confident that you will find the perfect plantation shutters for your home at Myblinds.ie

How do I choose the most suitable type and style of Plantation Shutters to suit my requirements? All the windows in Irish homes are off-standard. That is to say, there are no standard window sizes, so there are no standard sizes available in Plantation Shutters. Generally speaking, each shutter is custom made to fit a particular window or door opening. The most popular colours are white and off-white. The 'bottom line' for many people is that they require a high quality shutter, with a beautiful white or off-white painted finish, that will last a very long time, at an affordable price! If this is the case, why specify a very expensive variety of timber, when the wood will be sealed and painted? If you want a painted shutter, it may make sense to consider a shutter manufactured from 'LDF' (low-density fibre board), or a shutter with frames manufactured from 'engineered' timber. Plantation shutters manufactured from LDF or from engineered basswood can look as beautiful as any other painted shutter, and will last for years to come. In fact, many would argue that Plantation Shutters manufactured from engineeered basswood are more stable and less prone to warping, that 'solid' framed shutters!

If you decide on a wood colour for your plantation shutters, it is important to choose a timber that is beautiful, lightweight and stable, especially if your windows are large. Larger windows mean bigger and heavier shutters. This weight can put a severe strain on hinges and on the joints of the shutters which, on cheaper products, can lead to sagging of the shutters over time.

Our Shutters are exceptionally well made, have long lasting UV resistant finishes and have a unique style that will enhance contemporary or traditional interior styles. There are five material and cost options.

Classic Range

Classic is our LDF entry-level Plantation Shutter. This is an engineered product made using a LVL core, LDF outer and a polymer coating.

LDF – low-density fibreboard is a wood product created by breaking down timber into a powder, which is mixed with wax and resin and then formed into panels by applying high temperature and pressure. It is a building material similar in application to plywood but made up of separated fibres, not wood veneers. It is denser than normal particle board.

LVL - Laminated veneer lumber is an engineered wood product that uses multiple layers of thin wood assembled with adhesive. It is resistant to warping, twisting, bowing, or shrinking due to its composite nature.

Marchwood Range

Marchwood shutters are a definite step up in quality, made using finger jointed, solid Basswood panels and utilising the same mdf frames that we use on Classic.

Marchwood Plantation Shutters are manufactured to the highest standards using mortise and tenon joints to ensure prolonged quality and durability, and engineered laminated stiles to prevent warping. Marchwood is a solid and extremely strong shutter at a highly competitive price.

Phoenix Range

Ideal for Shutters, Phoenix is a very lightweight hardwood that comes from a Parasol tree. This grows to full height (45 ft) in only eight years. The eight rings (one for each year of growth) produce a distinctive character and a grain reminiscent of oak, that stands out even when painted.

The timber is solution soaked for one month, after which the moisture is vacuumed out, resulting in a strong but very lightweight bleached wood. The bleaching leaves the wood almost white, which means that we can offer a range of stained finishes as well as the ever popular painted colours. Phoenix Shutters also feature engineered stiles.

Grovewood Range

The Grovewood range of Plantation Shutters is made from Basswood, a fine-grained and stable timber, ideal for our wide range of painted and stained finishes.

Cedar Range

An excellent, high-end product extensively used in loft style apartments and barn conversions. Cedar is widely acknowledged to be the best timber for technical and aesthetic reasons and is ideal where you want to achieve a very natural look.

Cedar contains oil that can possibly come out after exposure to the sun. This can make the natural colour become darker than when it was first installed but is not related in any way to the finishing process, but is a natural occurrence for this type of wood. Customers need to be aware of this possibility when ordering.

Due to the nature of material manufacturing, colours may vary slightly between dye lots. You cannot match two Shutter panels made at the same time or even match the component parts. The stile will have come from a different part of the tree than the top rail and the louvres may have come from a different tree altogether. This feature is amplified if Shutters are ordered at different times i.e. buying a single room at a time. It is for this reason that we advise that the whole house is done at one time, when choosing Cedar Plantation Shutters

Slight variations may also occur between the finished products and the colour samples.