Dining rooms: candlelight in, streetlight out

Why shutters suit dining rooms

Closed louvres at night give total privacy while the panel face still reads as joinery rather than as a drawn blind. In a period Kent dining room with a picture rail and cornice, a painted shutter looks like it belongs to the architecture.

By day, tilting the louvres up pushes morning light across the ceiling and onto the table without glare on polished wood.

Layouts for common dining windows

Dining rooms often sit at the back of a Kent terrace with a single large window or a set of French doors onto the garden.

• Full-height shutters with a mid-rail — the standard for a single rear window
• Tier-on-tier — for a front dining room facing a pavement
• Track-mounted shutters — for French or patio doors that need to slide clear
• Café-style — where the top of the window is high and unoverlooked

Colour choices under lamplight

Bright white shutters can look cold under warm dining lighting. Off-whites and soft greys hold their tone in the evening, and we will show you samples under a lamp rather than only in daylight.

RAL colour matching is available if you want the shutter to pick up a skirting or panelling colour exactly.