Plantation shutters in Cessnock, made to measure
The right shutter here depends on the window. A west bedroom that cooks at five o'clock needs a different answer to a north living room you want winter sun in. We start with the aspect, then the blade width, then the tilt, and we measure it all in your home for free.
Every window here has an hour it earns its keep
The hard one. The low afternoon sun that cooks bedrooms in summer. Blades tilted up throw that light at the ceiling, so the room stays bright and loses the heat.
The west-facing room →The good glass. Easy to shade in summer, and the low winter sun slips in underneath open blades. The window you plan the living room around.
North glass, winter sun →First light, low and sharp. Blades tilted down soften the morning glare over the kitchen bench, then open flat for the rest of the day.
Plan an east room →Soft, even light and no direct sun. Here the job is usually privacy and draught control, not shading, and the blades can sit open most of the day.
Plan a south room →One way of thinking, two very different windows
Most of the windows we measure are one of two kinds: a double-hung sash in an older weatherboard, or a wall of new glass in an estate build. The aspect logic is the same. The shutter is not.
The cottage window
Older homes around Cessnock, Aberdare and the villages carry double-hung sash windows, picture rails and street-close frontages. Here we lean to painted timber with a front tilt rod, the traditional face that suits the joinery the house already has. Blade angle earns its keep twice on these streets: heat off the west walls, and privacy from the footpath without going dark.
Timber front-tilt shutters →
The new-estate window
The newer streets at Bellbird, Nulkaba and out toward the Kurri Kurri growth corridor are a different job: big west-facing glass on smaller blocks, and rooms that feel it by the first summer. Wide 89 or 114 mm blades with hidden tilt keep the lines clean and hold more of the view, and the same tilted-up trick tames the five o'clock sun.
Hidden-tilt wide-blade shutters →
Walk your house by compass, not by catalogue
Pick a room, point it the way it faces, tell us what it struggles with. The planner suggests a material, a blade width and a tilt style for that aspect at that hour, room by room, and builds a plan you can send us with your enquiry. Guidance only, never a price. The precise measure happens in your home, for free.
Ordinary work, taken gladly
Wet areas in PVC
Bathrooms and laundries get waterproof PVC louvres that shrug off steam and wipe down clean. Same made-to-measure fit, a material that suits the room's weather.
PVC for wet areas →
Bi-fold and sliding panels
Stacker doors and wide alfresco openings take bi-fold or bypass sliding shutters, so the indoor-outdoor room works in January as well as it does in October.
Bi-fold & sliding →
Outside the glass
A west-facing verandah or an exposed acreage elevation sometimes wants aluminium shutters outside the window. We will tell you at the measure if yours is that house.
Aluminium, honestly told →From your form to fitted windows
Tell us about your windows
The enquiry form is how every job here starts. Which rooms, which way they face if you know it, and what they struggle with. The Aspect Planner can fill most of this in for you.
Free in-home measure & quote
We come out, stand in each room at the window, check the reveals, the aspect and the light, and measure properly. You get a written quote for exactly your windows. No charge, no obligation.
Made to measure, then fitted
Your shutters are made to those measurements and fitted cleanly, hinges level, blades true. Because every window is bespoke, pricing is always quoted, never off a rate card.
Cessnock, the villages and the vines
The town
Cessnock & Aberdare
Weatherboard streets, sash windows, west walls that cop the full afternoon.
The second town
Kurri Kurri & the villages
House towns through and through, from Weston to Abermain to the new streets at Cliftleigh.
The vines
Pokolbin & wine country
Acreage homes and guest cottages where the late light is the whole point.
Guides written for this valley's light
The west-facing room
Why it cooks at five o'clock, and what blade angle does about it.
→ Sizing63, 89 or 114 mm blades
How blade width changes light, view and cleaning, window by window.
→ StyleFront tilt or hidden tilt
The honest cases for the traditional rod and the clean modern face.
→ PrivacyStreet privacy without going dark
The tilt trick that keeps daylight while it cuts the sight-line from the footpath.
→Which way does yours face?
Tell us the rooms that struggle, and when they struggle. We'll come out, stand in each one at the window, measure properly, and quote the shutters that suit the light your house actually gets. The measure and the quote cost nothing.