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Which way does it face?The Aspect Planner
Walk your house by compass, not by catalogue. Room by room: point the window the way it faces, name what the room struggles with, and we will suggest the material, blade width and tilt style we would bring to that window, and tell you why.
The planner needs JavaScript, but the thinking doesn't
Everything the planner would tell you lives in our guides: the west-facing room, north glass and winter sun, blade widths and tilt styles. Or skip straight to the part where we stand in the room with you: book a free in-home measure.
First, whereabouts are you planning for?
Now pick a room to plan
Which way does its main window face?
Not sure? Stand at the window mid-afternoon: if the sun is coming at you, that is west. Morning sun straight in means east. The phone's compass app settles arguments.
And what does this room struggle with most?
This is guidance for a starting point, not a specification and never a price. Blade sizes, panel splits and the final call happen at the free in-home measure, where the windows get a say.
Your plan so far
Nothing planned yet. Pick a house type, a room, an aspect and a struggle above, and add your first room.
Ready when you are
The planner sends nothing anywhere by itself. When you choose to send the plan, it simply pre-fills the enquiry form, in plain words you can read and edit before anything leaves your screen.
Because the valley's light is not generic
Cessnock sits on the inland floor of the Hunter: hard western sun on summer afternoons, clear cold winters where a north window is free heating, long golden evenings that guest cottages out toward the vines get reviewed on. A shutter catalogue cannot see any of that. Aspect is how the house tells you what each window needs, which is why our first question, here and at every measure, is the same: which way does it face?
The reasoning the planner uses is all published in the guides: the west room, north glass, blade widths, tilt styles and wet areas. No secrets, just the trade's thinking laid out.
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.