Shutters - why?

[bonniebird]

I think they are lovely, we have them from Shutterland in our bay window, they make the room look really, light, bright bigger and classy, I hate nets, dust collecters, Shutterland people were very professional too

[Annette Curtain]

Yet another thread for pedantry

To answer the OP

Shutters - why not?

*closes blinds-locks shutters-pulls curtains*

[Sue]

Yet another pointless post from Annette Curtain :))

[Sue]

Have belatedly decided I've answered my own question ......

Shutters make your home look like a fortress from the outside, and probably make it feel as if you are in a prison from the inside, when they're pulled across the window, even if (or maybe especially if) the slats are "open".

Walking round East Dulwich these days, it feels like a place where everybody just wants to shut everybody else out. Maybe that's one reason why they're called shutters :)

I once briefly (very very briefly) went out with somebody who got really twitchy because I always left my front gate open. Shutters feel a bit like a closed gate. Unwelcoming.

So I don't think I'll be going for shutters. Oh dear, not on trend then. That'll make a change :))

And in making that decision I've probably halved the potential value of my house. Bother :))

[StraferJack]

"Walking round East Dulwich these days, it feels like a place where everybody just wants to shut everybody else out."

??

so how come on autumnal evenings I can peer inside most people's houses through uncurtained windows?

ironically I live behind a security gate (rented home, not my choice) but I am moving to a "regular" non gated address

[intexasatthe moment]

These are what I'd have if I could afford them ,the type referred to by red devil .

Dont the plantation shutters block the light ?

[Sue]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> "Walking round East Dulwich these days, it feels

> like a place where everybody just wants to shut

> everybody else out."

>

> ??

>

> so how come on autumnal evenings I can peer inside

> most people's houses through uncurtained windows?

xxxxxx

"Most" ????

I think I'm attuned to seeing shutters now, so my impression is perhaps biased, but certainly around the area I'm in (North Cross Road area) shutters appear to be breeding like rabbits :)

[Sue]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> These are what I'd have if I could afford them

> ,the type referred to by red devil .

>

>

>

> Dont the plantation shutters block the light ?

xxxxxxx

I think those look nicer, but don't you have to have them either completely closed (presumably at night) or completely open (when you are very exposed)?

[intexasatthe moment]

You're right Sue .( goes without saying -) ) .

Though sometimes they're cut in half ,horizontally ,so just the bottom part of window is obscured .

[Sue]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> You're right Sue .( goes without saying -) ) .

>

xxxxxx

Oh dear :(

[intexasatthe moment]

I wasn't being sarcy ...just acknowledging that I nearly always agree with your posts -).

By the way ..how do you format the post to add the emoticon ?

( not that I still have too much time on my hands ! )

[Sue]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> I wasn't being sarcy ...just acknowledging that I

> nearly always agree with your posts -).

>

> By the way ..how do you format the post to add the

> emoticon ?

>

> ( not that I still have too much time on my hands

> ! )

xxxxxxx

Phew!

The smiling smiley is a colon and a bracket with no space between them, but I'll put a space between them to show you what I mean ......

So : and ) gives :)

The laughing smiley is a colon and two brackets with no space between them, ditto,

So : and ) and ) gives :))

The miserable non-smiley is a colon and a reverse bracket with no space between them,

So : and ( gives :(

Now can somebody tell me how to do the clinking glasses one, which I miss very much since the forum did away with the smiley bar :))

[ClareC]

Sue Wrote:

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> Have belatedly decided I've answered my own

> question ......

>

> Shutters make your home look like a fortress from

> the outside, and probably make it feel as if you

> are in a prison from the inside, when they're

> pulled across the window, even if (or maybe

> especially if) the slats are "open".

>

> Walking round East Dulwich these days, it feels

> like a place where everybody just wants to shut

> everybody else out. Maybe that's one reason why

> they're called shutters :)

>

> I once briefly (very very briefly) went out with

> somebody who got really twitchy because I always

> left my front gate open. Shutters feel a bit like

> a closed gate. Unwelcoming.

>

> So I don't think I'll be going for shutters. Oh

> dear, not on trend then. That'll make a change

> :))

>

> And in making that decision I've probably halved

> the potential value of my house. Bother :))

I read somewhere that burglars tend to be more attracted to properties with open gates. The thinking being that if you don't shut your gate your security elsewhere more likely to be poor...... No idea if its true!

[intexasatthe moment]

Ah ha ... :) .

And the thumbs up one ?

Ta .

[Sue]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> Ah ha ... :) .

>

> And the thumbs up one ?

>

> Ta .

xxxxxx

Sorry, no idea!

Re burglars and open gates, I think that must be a myth.

The people living there are not the only people going up and down the path and closing (or not) the gate!

[Prunella_Gatsby]

Thats the very reason people shut their shutters/curtains because of perverts/potential burglar like you peering in!

[Sue]

Prunella_Gatsby Wrote:

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> Thats the very reason people shut their

> shutters/curtains because of perverts/potential

> burglar like you peering in!

xxxxx

Nobody can see in in the daytime if you have translucent blinds or similar, and in the nighttime you'd be shutting curtains anyway probably.

It's the boarded-up keep-out appearance during the day which I personally dislike.

Also, ironically, keeping shutters shut may actually encourage burglars, because they think if your shutters are closed you are probably away from home.

[MrBen]

Burbage Wrote:

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> Although some people clearly flatter themselves

> that they're worth looking in on, a fear of

> rubber-necked, prod-nosed and possibly

> light-fingered, neighbours is not always

> unreasonable. Shutters help reduce this anxiety

> without the implication that the inhabitants are

> reclusive documentary-fodder or dead. Moreover,

> shutters never need taking to the dry-cleaners,

> which means they're always ready for action.

>

> Whether your neighbours have spent good money to

> allay an imagined fear, to hide their squalor from

> the judgemental, or to mitigate a real threat, is

> a question only you can answer. But, whatever the

> motive, it doesn't seem an entirely healthy

> development.

Cool flowery prose there bro'.

[Sue]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Burbage Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

>

> > Although some people clearly flatter themselves

> > that they're worth looking in on, a fear of

> > rubber-necked, prod-nosed and possibly

> > light-fingered, neighbours is not always

> > unreasonable. Shutters help reduce this anxiety

> > without the implication that the inhabitants

> are

> > reclusive documentary-fodder or dead. Moreover,

> > shutters never need taking to the dry-cleaners,

> > which means they're always ready for action.

> >

> > Whether your neighbours have spent good money

> to

> > allay an imagined fear, to hide their squalor

> from

> > the judgemental, or to mitigate a real threat,

> is

> > a question only you can answer. But, whatever

> the

> > motive, it doesn't seem an entirely healthy

> > development.

> Cool flowery prose there bro'.

xxxxxx

I lost the will to live halfway through the first sentence :)) :)) :))

[MrBen]

I meant it in a nice way.

[Sue]

MrBen Wrote:

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> I meant it in a nice way.

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I wasn't suggesting you didn't :))