Owning your own home

15sqm £2500

I feel like a man who has walked into a jewellery store and asked if they have any engagement rings, and then tried to haggle on the price.

What the actual fuck

I hope they tile themselves for that price

I spent 1k on tiles in a 2.2mx2.2m bathroom, only floor and one wall + shower return done. Tiles were on sale too, lol. I thought because the room was small I could go fancy and it wouldn’t be too bad, but I was wrong. £2,500 for 15sq/m is next-level.

Don’t drop a Le Creuset

Depends how many people can look into the room from the street/other houses. Half height shutters offer privacy and much more light than curtains or blinds.

I find translucent film does the same job for much much cheaper though?

I was looking into half height shutters. The only problem being how much space they need. Unless I'm missing something.

Would agree.
Not sure if any houses would have had that style originally either, so bit odd.

Nah, don’t think you are, you that’s part of the issue. But don’t you have a square bay? Should fold away better.

But Pinterest said so.

Sarcy comments aside, aren't they a lighter modern look that echos the sort of thing you see in what would have originally been grander more expensive equivalents? Most of those sorts of houses tend to still have their original solid shutters.

I’ll raise you 7m2 for £1k. A tenner a tile, more than we paid for our dinner plates.

We had one of those heavy stainless steel door stops in the bathroom. Now replaced with a hockey puck.

Yeah I'm thinking more along the lines of keeping people from looking in so the half ones would be a better fit and probably hardly ever be opened.

Each to their own really. I'm not a fan as I think they are inauthentic, but then 3mx3m aluminium and glass sliding doors are hardly authentic either, so its where you draw your line. I work with a lad who is referring is house with ONLY items that are hand made in England, including the nails to put the floorboards in.
I'm not sure that style of shutter would have featured anywhere in this country, hence the name plantation, but I'm prob wrong on that.
I quite fancy solid shutters, so I can really bunker down when its time to bug in, our neighbours have them and they look fantastic.

You can't see out with translucent film though. I'd like some kind of one-way mirror effect but sadly that doesn't seem to be available.

If you can bear to measure and fit them yourself (which isn't too difficult, but possibly requires a bit of confidence), you can get probably get them significantly cheaper:

https://shutters.co.uk/

I've done a three section bay and a straight forward window and they were relatively easy, the bay obviously harder. They do require care though, for example our victorian bay wasn't straight or level, so the height's were a bit different on all three sections. As you're ordering you can give them a ring and they're pretty helpful.

The simple window (1m * 87cm) was £182 delivered. The bay I no longer have the invoice for.

Ha aye, So expensive.

think the names refers to slave trade era - dont quote me on that

Yeah, "plantation", no thanks.

You do realise it's just a name? You don't actually have to own a sugar plantation and large numbers of slaves to fit shutters to your windows, however they're described.

You do you and I'll do me. There are two reasons I'm not a fan. 1 is the problematic nature of the term that they are most widely referred to as, 2 is the same reason Aesop and Hague Blue can fuck off with their middle-class, aspirational, Ulster Tattler type bullshit.

But then again, as is painfully obvious, I have zero style or taste so #2 is very much an IMO type stance.