Improve your health with window decor

With mental health awareness day falling this month, we wanted our customers to recognise how they can improve your health with window decor, such as shutters and blinds. Just decorating your home with certain pieces of decor, like a window dressing, can help you relax, reduce anxiety and create a calming environment for you to spend time in. 

We want to discuss our range of products, from automatic blinds to white shutters for windows, and how they can benefit your interior and your health all in one. Did you know seeing the sunrise and allowing natural light into your home first thing in the morning can instantly regulate hormones and settle neurotransmitters that affect your mood? Well, some beautiful new shutters or blinds could instantly help with that.

Motorised Blinds

Did you know we offer blinds that open automatically in the morning? This is a very popular question for homeowners looking for easy access to their light and privacy when they are both in and out of their homes. Spending more time in natural light can actually improve your mood and sleep quality and we offer various types of blinds that can be designed to operate manually or by the motorised option.

We know during the winter months this can be particularly hard due to the darker mornings and evenings, and so setting your blinds to open at sunrise is an easy way of making the most out of the daylight hours. Choose from Motorised Roller blinds, Venetians, or even Pleated styles to design the perfect automated shade for your interior.

These blinds can also reduce the anxiety of your home being unattended during the day, as you can control your blinds even when you are away, making it look as if it is occupied. As well as this, motorised blinds can assist those customers who may struggle with simple tasks around the home, with everything being in easy reach at the click of a button.

Shutters and blinds are not just for style and luxury but are designed to provide a purpose and solution to every type of home and client. Discuss our Louvolite and Somfy blinds with our blind experts today!

Interior Shutter Styles

White shutters for windows can automatically make your room feel bigger and brighter, especially if they are installed in a small room. They can also:

• Control temperature – shutters can create a comfortable atmosphere to work and live in by shading the hot sun in the summer and insulating your home during the winter.
• Reduce Road Noise – shutters can make a significant difference to your interior in terms of how much sound from the outside you let into your home. Being a fixed window dressing sat against your window frame, the structure of the shutters creates a better sound barrier than any other window dressing, helping you enjoy your time indoors, peacefully. This can also help with the quality of sleep, improving your mental and physical health in the long run.
• Provide both privacy and light at the same time If you are worried about reducing the light coming into your property because you want more privacy, you do not have to worry with shutters. Due to the easy-to-control slats (also called louvres) you can set them at certain points to benefit from both. We recommend leaving the panels closed, and just altering the louvres themselves, so you can always reduce people passing by from looking into your home.
• Reduce screen glare – As well as your mental health, shutters can easily improve your physical health. As we discussed in our recent blog about home office spaces, shutters can improve your quality of work by reducing screen glare with ease. This decreases squinting from the sun, protects your eyes, and reduces headaches, improving your health and quality of work.

Blackout Shutters and Blinds

Insomnia and anxiety are one of the main causes of a restless nights sleep. Both are often caused by stress and your mind being unable to shut off before bed. A way to improve this is creating an environment that is relaxing and comforting for you to enjoy before and during your sleep. If you are looking for bedroom ideas for anxiety or insomnia then continue reading.

Colour Schemes and Decor: How does room decor affect moods? Well, an expert at Elle Decor suggests that soft muted colour palettes and lack of electronics within your bedroom can make an instant change to how you rest and improve your mood. There are multiple studies saying that being on your phone or watching television before bed can keep your brain awake for longer, and that taking an hour before bed to avoid electronics and pick up a book instead, can instantly improve sleep.

Shutters: A set of white interior shutters could help add to that “soft colour palette” that the experts discussed. They fit with every interior colour scheme, but also help add a bright but welcoming touch to your home. Within our range, we can also design a blackout shutter, created with a fitted blind sitting behind the panel itself to cover any light leaks that may disturb your sleep.

Blinds: A variation of our blind styles, such as Roman and Roller, can be designed in blackout fabrics which are perfect for bedrooms and for customers who want to create a darker, cosier atmosphere to enjoy their nights sleep.

Create Your Relaxing Space

We hope these little pieces of advice can help those customers looking for ways to improve their home to benefit their mental and physical health. For more advice on our products and their benefits, do not hesitate to contact our showroom teams, who are happy to help with any questions you may have.

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0208 662 0126 – Shirley Branch

01732 806185 – Kent Branch