Two reasons why shutters serve as excellent kitchen window dressings

Here are two tips to follow when choosing kitchen window dressings.

Consider getting shutters instead of blinds or curtains

If you have not yet chosen your window dressing for this room, you should consider getting shutters. Shutters are both a practical and a beautiful choice for a kitchen window and are generally much more suitable for this area of a home than blinds or curtains.

There are several reasons why they work well in a kitchen. Firstly, unlike fabric-based blinds or curtains, shutters (which are typically made from materials like composite wood or PVC) don't absorb odours.

This means that you don't have to worry about, for example, ensuring the kitchen windows and doors are wide open, to allow the cooking smells to waft away so they don't cling to the window dressings, or have to avoid making delicious but pungent dishes. Instead, you can cook as much fragrant food as you want, safe in the knowledge that the shutters won't get whiffy because of this.

Secondly, if you choose shutters, you won't have to be quite as careful when handling liquids, like soups and sauces in the kitchen, to avoid splattering them on the window dressings, as it's very easy to wipe food off the metal, PVC or wood that most shutters are made from. In contrast, even if you wipe food off your curtains as soon as it lands on it, there is no guarantee that the food won't leave a stain, as it will quickly soak into the fabric, instead of sitting on the surface of the material, as it would on a set of, for example, wooden shutters.

Look for waterproof shutters

If you decide to get shutters for your kitchen, you should opt for waterproof ones. For example, standard wooden shutters will fare far better in a humid kitchen environment where they're likely to get splashed with dishwater or drinks regularly than fabric-based curtains or blinds. You'll find waterproof shutters even easier to take care of in these conditions.

This is because if the shutters are waterproof, you won't have to remember to wipe the condensation off the slats after a long cooking session that produced a lot of steam or need to be concerned about getting every drop of dishwater off the shutters if they're placed on a window by your kitchen sink. This is because the water won't soak through to the wood or metal that the shutters' slats are made from (which could eventually cause mould growth) but will sit on the impermeable barrier that they're coated in instead.

Reach out to a local shutter installer to learn more.