Plantation shutters for bathrooms & wet areas

Why polyresin in a wet room

Bathrooms and laundries are hard on window furnishings. Steam from the shower, splashes at the vanity, humidity that sits in the room after every bath. Timber shutters move and mark, and some fabrics hold onto the damp. Polyresin is made for it: it is moisture-resistant, durable and low maintenance.

We use polyresin in every wet room of a whole-home job for that reason, even when the living areas are timber. Painted in the same white with the same louvre size, nobody can tell the difference from the hallway.

Privacy without closing the room

Frosted glass stops people looking in but it also stops you seeing out, and a blind pulled down all day turns an ensuite into a cave. Shutters give you a middle setting. Tilt the louvres upward and daylight bounces in off the ceiling while the angle blocks the view in from outside.

On a taller window the shutter can often be split, depending on the product, so the bottom half stays closed for privacy and the top half opens for light and air.

Kitchens and laundries too

The window behind the kitchen sink gets splashed and the one beside the cooktop gets grease and heat. Laundries are humid most of the time. The same reasoning applies: polyresin wipes clean and stays straight.

Fitting around baths, showers and vanities

Wet-area windows are often awkward — right above a freestanding bath, tight against a shower screen, behind a tap that a hinged panel would hit. We look at how the panel will open before we choose the frame, and a fixed or sliding panel is sometimes the better answer.