BY MATERIAL
Faux Wood Shutters, Made to Measure
Two of our collections are built for the rooms that punish timber — one engineered composite, one real-timber core in a sealed ABS skin. Steam, splashes and condensation are the whole point of them.
What "faux wood" actually means here
The phrase gets used as a polite way of saying cheap, which is unfair to the material and occasionally too kind to the seller. All it means is that the panel is not solid timber all the way through — and once you know what a bathroom does to solid timber, that stops being a compromise and starts being the specification.
| Collection | Construction | From |
|---|---|---|
| Classic | Dependable composite — clean, contemporary, designed for bathrooms, kitchens and high-humidity rooms | £163.20 per m² |
| Endurance | ABS-coated paulownia — a real lightweight timber core in a hard, sealed skin, engineered for the busiest, dampest rooms | £214.20 per m² |
Classic is also our most affordable collection, which makes it an easy decision for a small bathroom window. Endurance is the interesting one: the core is paulownia, a genuine timber, wearing an ABS coat — so it is not a slab of plastic pretending to be a tree, it is a tree in weatherproofs.
Where faux wood earns its keep
Any room that fills with steam on purpose and then cools down again. That cycle — moisture in, moisture out, several times a day — is what gradually unsettles natural timber, and it is precisely what composite and ABS shrug off. It is why our bathroom shutters and kitchen shutters guidance lean on these two collections rather than the timber ones, and why the shutter over your bath should not be the same material as the one in your sitting room. If you are weighing the two against each other, which collection is best for a bathroom or kitchen settles it room by room.
And MDF?
MDF is the third material you will meet while shopping, and usually the cheapest. We do not supply MDF shutters. Pressed wood fibre behaves well right up until moisture finds a cut edge or a hinge hole, after which it swells — and swelling is not something a louvred panel does elegantly. We would rather stock two faux wood constructions we are happy to put in a wet room than a third with small print attached. The full story is in MDF shutters — why we don't sell them, and the room-by-room comparison in wood or composite — which suits which room.
Colours
Both collections carry the full thirteen-colour painted palette, from Pure White through the greys to Black in Paint:
- SF01 Pure White
- SF02 Silk White
- SF03 Lustre
- SF04 Dusk
- SF05 Oyster
- SF06 Ivory Lace
- SF07 Sea Pearl
- SF08 Picasso
- SF09 Hall Gray
- SF10 Stone Gray
- SF11 Brown Gray
- SF12 Anthracite
- SF13 Black in Paint
Most bathrooms end up in white or a soft neutral like cream, for the sensible reason that they keep the room bright. The greys run from Hall Gray through to Anthracite if you want something deeper. The wood-tone finishes sit on the timber collections instead — see wood-tone shutters.
Any style you like
Material and style are separate decisions here too. Café style is the bathroom favourite — privacy at eye level, daylight over the top. Tier-on-tier adds a closable upper tier, and full height suits a smaller window with one clean run of louvres. Louvres come in 63mm, 76mm and 89mm whichever you choose.
How ordering works
- You measure. Our measuring guide walks through it, window by window.
- You price it online. Enter the size and see the cost straight away — no callback, no survey.
- Made to your millimetres. Every shutter is made to the sizes you give us.
- You collect and fit. Collection is from Retford, and our fitting guides take it from there.
Compare all five collections side by side, or start pricing a café style shutter in Classic or Endurance.