Wood’s Merit

Despite the wide selection of window materials in the market today, choosing the perfect form for your home or office does not need to be difficult. With wood’s traditional and natural appearance, it becomes extremely easy to decorate around, causing wood to be the obvious choice for shutters or blinds. Other benefits of wood include these:

• Extremely versatile
• Complements any style and represents timeless beauty and elegance
• Outlives most types of window treatments and also has a higher strength to weight ratio
• Generally unaffected by extreme temperatures and less susceptible to condensation
• Best at insulating because of its valuable thermal qualities
• Does not bend like plastic or aluminum blinds
• Easier to maintain and in the event of a repair, wood is always available
• Once assembled will maintain its look

Disadvantages of Synthetics

• Looks, feels, and sounds like plastic
• Flimsy, yet heavier than wood quality causes sagging in the louvers
• Has severe limitations and constraints on heights and widths
• May yellow
• Has limited color choices and no stain options
• Most shutters made from plastics look like they are pieced together similar to a model