Plantation Shutters

July 30, 2011 by Heather Lucier Stanley Comments Off

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I love plantation shutters. When I moved to Texas in early 1994 at 23 years old, I had joined the Junior League in San Antonio and attended a few fancy parties at other members’ homes in the downtown area. A few things stood out. However, plantation shutters on the windows were my favorite take away: I love the clean lines and how they frame the windows.

I wanted plantation shutters for our first house in Austin because they are a great problem solver. Living on a corner lot, with 2 sides of our house facing sidewalk, the plantation shutters allow me to see what I want to see and hide what I don’t want to see when I am looking out any common room window that faces the street or another property. I love how ours have 4 panels and have a variety of ways they can be opened or closed. During the day, I open the shutters. However, at night we keep at least the bottom shutters closed for privacy.

Plantation shutters have more versatility than most blinds. Blinds typically open from bottom to top. With open blinds, I never had the option to have privacy from people walking by: I felt like people walking by or soliciting could see into our home; therefore, I kept the blinds closed. Although some blinds allow for opening only at the top, we did not purchase this type of blind.

Another spectacular option with plantation shutters is to catch the sun the right way. In our front dining room the sun will blaze from the East in the morning. I can shut the right bottom and right top shutter and still enjoy some sun from the left top and left bottom shutter and work at my computer in the front living room.

I am all about options. Plantation shutters give me options and are beautiful. In and of themselves, they are a window treatment and can, and often do, stand alone. With plantation shutters, fabric window treatments are optional.

In our new house, we will have plantation shutters throughout because they are the perfect window treatment for me personally and Alan is on board. Whenever I see plantation shutters, they remind me of being a young impressionable 20-something who had just moved to Texas and was willing to take it all in. I’m glad I ventured out early and started exploring. I have learned a lot by observing other people over the years and I am OK admitting that.

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About Heather Lucier Stanley

Heather Lucier Stanley grew up in Central Massachusetts and lived in New England until she started studying at the University of Michigan where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature. In her early 20s, she moved to San Antonio, Texas and started studying business and accounting. In her late 20s, she became a Certified Public Accountant. She has held many varied and interesting business and volunteer positions: public accountant, internal auditor, systems implementer, project manager, business analyst, tax preparer and Austin Skiers board member. While traveling 35% for a position she held, she earned her Master of Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Phoenix. She is enthusiastic about learning and trying new things. A few of her passions are personal development, fitness, snow skiing, and travel. She is outgoing and real. She feels that success is easy to attain if the individual defines what success means to her and then has a plan to achieve her individual success. No two definitions of success are the same because each of us is unique and has something original to share with the world.
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