living room plantation shutters

Locally Owned and Operated for Over 30 Years...

Serving Customers' Beautiful Homes and Businesses in Greater Austin

real wooden shutters for living room windows

When relaxing at home alone or with loved ones, your living room is a focal point of your home. Many living rooms feature large windows and doors, which offer beautiful views, natural sunlight and a connection to the outdoors. While necessary for both decor and comfort, living room windows and doors may also pose a challenge when it comes to light control, privacy and insulation. 

Especially here in Texas, the intense spring, summer, and fall heat can make windows and doors a challenge. Our custom-crafted, solid wood plantation shutters not only provide lasting beauty and functionality, they provide significant insulation against heat from the outside in the summer, or losing heat in the winter. 

Curtains are another popular window covering, but in order to provide both insulation and privacy, they are often heavy, difficult to clean and a magnet for dust and dirt. 

Our shutters have a smooth, luxurious finish, elliptical louvers and custom trim to perfectly match your home. Many of our clients choose class white, while others choose a pop of color or black for a sleek, modern look.

At our local factory, we start from scratch and tailor our work to tiny increments to get that perfect fit we are known for. We can build unique shapes like circles, ovals, rakes (triangles), eyebrow arches, and half circle arches.

lasting BEauty and Charm

Southern Shutters’ expert craftsmen build your shutters into the frames of your windows with a low profile and the exact trim used in your home - they are a truly seamless solution for covering your Texas windows. To sum up, here are the main benefits of choosing wooden plantation blinds for your living room, versus other window coverings: 

We come to you - Our exclusive factory reps come to your home to help you make the best choice in the comfort and privacy of the living space where your shutters will be installed. 

Elegance and beauty - We have more 5-star reviews for plantation shutters than anyone else in Central Texas for a reason! The timeless elegance and beauty of our shutters is unsurpassed, in our view and the view of tens of thousands of happy Southern Shutters customers.

Enhanced privacy - Our shutters offer enhanced privacy, allowing you to control the amount of light that enters your living room while still maintaining your privacy.

Light Control - Our shutters offer increased light control, allowing you to adjust the amount of natural light that enters your living room throughout the day.

Energy Efficiency - Our solid basswood shutters improve energy efficiency by reducing heat transfer through your windows, helping lower heating and cooling costs.

Types of Shutters to Cover Living Room Windows

With our exclusive factory right here in Austin, staffed by  the most expert shutter craftsmen in central Texas, who can make interior shutters for your living room windows exactly to your specifications. Whether it’s differing louver sizes, tilt or hidden tilt, having a divider rod, or other features, we can tailor your windows exactly to your needs. Here are a few examples of popular shutter blinds to cover living room windows: 

Plantation Shutters

Plantation shutters are a popular choice for living room windows due to their versatility and classic design. Our plantation shutters are made exclusively of basswood, which is the most beautiful and long-lasting wood for premium quality plantation shutters. Our shutters are flush to the wall with no plantation shutter casing projecting out, resulting in a product that appears built with home. Our shutters also have no bottom rail, which means they do not collect dirt or damage your window sills.

We use premium hinges that come in many different colors to complement the hardware finishes in your house. Our louvers are shaped like an airplane wing, making them appear thinner and more elegant than traditional shutters. We also offer hidden rail or visible tilt options, depending on your preference.

Cafe Shutters

Cafe shutters are designed to cover only the bottom half of the window, offering privacy while still allowing plenty of natural light to enter the room. They are perfect for living rooms that face the street or a busy sidewalk. Our cafe shutters are also made of basswood and can be customized to match your trim and paint colors.

Sliding Shutters

Sliding shutters slide horizontally to cover the living room window, providing an elegant and functional solution for your windows. Our sliding shutters are made of basswood and can be customized to match your home's interior design.

Customizable and Maintenance-Friendly

Our shutters are customizable to accommodate different window shapes and sizes, and we offer a range of designs and styles to cater to different aesthetic preferences, privacy needs, light control requirements, and energy efficiency considerations. We also provide custom frames to accommodate various installations, including casement windows, tile, door levers, and faucets.

We understand that maintenance is important to our customers, which is why we don't include a bottom rail on our shutters. With no bottom rail, our shutters are easy to clean and won't collect dirt, which can damage your window sills.

Real Wood - No PVC, Glued Together Wood or Other Cheaper Materials 

We exclusively use solid basswood - the industry standard for premium shutters. While many of our competitors use cheaper quality materials like plastics, composites or laminated/glued together pieces of wood to shave money off their costs, we never do. We are dedicated to providing you with a lifetime of beauty and elegance for your home, which means only using the highest quality products. 

Premium Quality Hinges and Elliptical Louvers

Our shutters are mounted with premium quality hinges that are smooth and come in many different colors to complement the hardware finishes in your house. We also use ellipse louvers that are shaped like airplane wings, creating a thinner profile that reflects light more elegantly than a flat surface.

Aesthetically Pleasing and Cohesive Look

In contrast to our competitors, who use a 4-sided frame even when it's not necessary, our shutters do not have a frame that creates an unpleasant aesthetic and a trough behind the shutters that is impossible to clean. Our shutters perfectly match the trim and paint color of your home, creating a cohesive look that enhances your living room's overall aesthetic.

Professional Installation Team

When you choose us, you can rest assured that each of your living room shutter will be custom-made specifically for your windows, engineered, built, and installed by our tenured installation crew. Our local installation team is dedicated to ensuring that your shutters are perfect, making precise adjustments on-site to guarantee a seamless and aesthetically pleasing installation.

Installed by Our Team of Experienced austin shutter Craftsmen

Our local installation team has spent decades in our factory and on-site for installations, giving them a thorough understanding of shutters and the entire installation process. This allows them to make precise adjustments to ensure that your shutters are installed perfectly, without any gaps or irritating functional problems.

Warranty

At Southern Shutters, we stand behind the quality of our products and provide a warranty for all of our arched window shutters. Our warranty ensures that your shutters are free from defects and will provide you with years of use and enjoyment.

HAVE QUESTIONS?

Our factory reps are just that – straight from our locally owned and operated Austin Factory. Your shutters will never be shipped, damaged or delayed from an overseas factory. To help you make the best choice for your home, we come to you. There's no better place to look at and touch samples, make style decisions and visualize the perfect end product for your home.