Plantation Shutters in Richmond

Richmond is mostly period housing: the Georgian fronts around Richmond Green, the Victorian and Edwardian terraces up Richmond Hill, and the larger homes out towards Petersham and the Park. We fit a lot of original timber sash and bay windows here, so we know how to keep the proportions right and the room light.

The trick is matching the shutter to the window, not forcing one style on the whole house. We work that out at the survey, window by window.

Tall sash windows usually suit tier on tier or cafe style: privacy at street level without losing the light. That cafe style approach works well on ground-floor rooms near the Green, where you want the lower glass screened but the top kept open. Bay windows suit full height shutters, measured to the exact angles, because the older bays are rarely on a true 90 degrees.

Richmond Hill carries the famous view over the Thames meadows, protected by an Act of Parliament, the only view in England with that protection. Maids of Honour Row on the Green is a Grade I Georgian terrace from the 1720s. On streets like these we keep the louvre tighter and the frame sympathetic, so the shutters read as part of the original window.

Dry living rooms and bedrooms can use Hardwood for real timber character, which suits the formal Victorian and Edwardian rooms Richmond is full of. Bathrooms and kitchens call for waterproof Polycomposite: it handles humidity, carries a reinforced core for better insulation, and wipes clean. We talk it through room by room and recommend what actually works. You can see the spread of styles and rooms in our recent installations gallery.

We price by the square metre, so the cost tracks the size of your windows. Express is £315/sqm in Polycomposite, £380/sqm in Hardwood. Plan & Save is £260/sqm either way. The survey is free, there is no deposit until you order, and we confirm the exact figure before you commit.

Express shutters are UK-made and usually fitted in about 2 to 3 weeks, with a 10-year guarantee on Polycomposite and 5 years on Hardwood. Plan & Save, made overseas to the same spec, takes around 8 to 9 weeks. We cover TW9 and TW10 with no travel charge.