October 2019 - McNeill Palm

Use Plantation Window Shutters Everywhere in Your Home

April 21, 2023October 28, 2019 by McNeill Palm Team

When you’re considering plantation window shutters in Destin, FL, don’t just think about living room, dining room, and sunroom windows (where plantation window shutters are most commonly used), but instead think about other areas in your home where they will work very well.

Plantation window shutters are a great addition to any home. They provide a visual facelift and can update both the interior of your home and increase the curb appeal outside your home.

Plantation window shutters can also make your home more energy efficient, no matter what the weather is like outside. They will keep your home more cool and comfortable in the summertime, which will keep your HVAC from running continuously in the heat of the summer and they will keep warm air inside your home during the cool months of winter, which will save you on heating costs.

Plantation window shutters also offer an incredible ventilation system that allows fresh air to flow from open windows throughout your house during nice days in the spring and autumn months.

If controlling the amount of light that comes into each room is important to you, then plantation window shutters are an excellent choice. The wide louvers of plantation window shutters can be adjusted to let just the right amount of light into a room. If you want full sunlight to pour in, then the panels of the plantation window shutters can be opened up to allow that.

Plantation window shutters are also an excellent choice for privacy within your home. When the louvers are closed, you get the benefit of some natural light coming in combined with absolutely privacy from anyone outside your home.

One room you should consider having plantation window shutters installed in is the family room (sometimes also called the great room). This room is where your family gathers to play games, watch movies, and hang out. Plantation window shutters add to the relaxing feel of the room and can allow a lot of natural light inside to create warmth and coziness. The louvers can be completely closed to prevent outside light from creating glare on the TV screen when your family is watching a movie.

Another room where you should consider having plantation window shutters installed is the kitchen. You spend a lot of time in your kitchen and having the abundant natural light from plantation window shutters will make your kitchen more inviting and will save you on electricity bills because you won’t have to turn all the kitchen lights on during the day when you’re making coffee or preparing food.

Bedrooms are a natural room where you should consider having plantation window shutters installed. The large louvers make light control and ventilation easy, while on nice days, you can open the plantation window shutter panels to let natural light pour into your bedroom. Plantation window shutters add a cozy touch, which will add to the rest of the elements in your bedroom to make a perfect environment for a good night’s sleep.

Another way to use plantation window shutters in your home is as room dividers. There are many reasons why people would want room dividers in their home. One reason might be to break up a very large room into two separate spaces, and perhaps make one space a home office, and the other space a dining area or breakfast nook. Another reason for room dividers might be to provide privacy in shared bedrooms. Whatever the reason you may need room dividers, plantation window shutters are a good option.

If you’d like learn more about plantation window shutters in Destin, FL, you can talk with our knowledgeable team at McNeill Palm. You can visit our showroom at 655 Grand Blvd Ste 106D, Miramar Beach, FL 32250, or you can contact us at (850) 613-6228.

Looking For The Best Repurpose Blind Slats Has Never Been This Easy

April 21, 2023October 21, 2019 by McNeill Palm Team

When considering buying repurpose blind slats in Destin, FL, don’t throw the old window blinds away after your new window blinds are installed. Instead, think about using them in these creative ways.

One way to use repurpose blind slats is to destring them and pull the slats out to keep. You can take one of the slats and cut it in approximately four-inch pieces. You can keep one piece out, and store the rest. Use the piece you kept out to easily and neatly clean crumbs off of cloth tablecloths.

Rolled tape, like packing tape, electrical tape, and duct tape, is very hard to get started when the sticky end sticks to the roll. Place a small piece of an old mini window blind slat to the end of the tape roll, and never spend extra time trying to start the tape without tearing it again.

If you do a lot of arts and crafts or woodworking projects, you know how difficult it can be to draw straight lines on the curve of a surface. Because mini window blind slats are flexible, they offer the perfect solution. Simply fold a piece of the mini window blind slat over the curve and use a pencil to trace the straight edge and create a straight line.

You can use a piece of a mini window blind slat to create a spout for bottles to make pouring liquids easy, safe, and spillproof.

If you have something that falls and rolls to the back a narrow space between appliances or between appliances and walls, you can use a mini window blind slat to easily reach it and slide it out where you can pick it up. You can also use mini window blind slats to retrieve items from underneath furniture where the opening is too small to get your arms and hands under.

You can keep painting projects neater – and save extra paint – by using a mini window blind slat to clean paint out of the grooved top of the can where the lid for the paint fits on.

Have you ever been working with regular glue or extra-strength glue and tried to spread it on the surface you’re working on, only to find you’ve either glued your fingers together or you’ve created a hard shell on your finger that is very hard to clean off? Mini window blind slats come to the rescue. Use a piece of a mini window blind slat to spread glue – it works perfectly – and keep your hands unglued and clean in the process.

If you’re a gardener and are planting seedlings to transfer to the garden or you’ve planted the garden and want to make sure, until the plants appear, you know what is planted where, you can use mini window blind slats as markers. Cut four or five-inch pieces, write the name of the plant, and stick it in the pot or row that you want to mark.

Mini blind window slats make a great straight line edge when you are doing touchup painting. Instead of spending money and time using painter’s tape to protect trim and window panes, use a piece of a mini window blind slat to keep paint where it belongs. This works well for touchup projects, but you should make sure to use a dry slat for each new section you paint.

If you’d like to learn more about repurpose blind slats in Destin, FL, you can speak with our experienced staff at McNeill Palm. You can come to our showroom at 655 Grand Blvd Ste 106D, Miramar Beach, FL 32250, or you can call us at (850) 613-6228.

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Making Small Windows Seem Larger

April 21, 2023October 14, 2019 by McNeill Palm Team

Using a window covering in Destin, FL to make small windows look bigger is the simplest and least expensive solution for this common situation in most homes. Many homes now how a number of high egress windows. Some homes have smaller windows in bathrooms, laundry rooms, and in alcoves. However, you can make any window in your home seem like it’s bigger by utilizing these tips.

The effect of making small windows seem larger will dramatically transform your home in ways that you would have never dreamed off. Using a combination of tools at your disposal, this transformation can be quite easy to do.

The first thing you should do when you want a small window to seem bigger is to get rid of dark drapes and shades you may be using as window coverings. One of the things that will make a small window seem larger is to maximize the amount of available natural light. Dark drapes and shades block out most if not all natural light. Consider sheer or light-colored thin curtains that will let the sun shine through the window even if they are closed.

You can alter the appearance of the height and width of small windows in the way you hang your window coverings. To expand the vertical size of the window, you can create a ceiling-to-floor look by hanging curtains or drapes about one inch below the ceiling (make sure the window coverings are long enough to sweep the floor).

To expand the horizontal size of the window, hang longer curtain rods so that the each end is a few inches beyond the window frame, then hang curtains or drapes on each end of the curtain rod.

Both of these techniques will make small windows seem taller and wider. It’s important when you’re using curtains anywhere in your home that you don’t by curtains that are only as long as the window itself. Always make sure that the bottom of the curtains are touching the floor, because short curtains make small windows seem even smaller.

When you’re having window blinds installed, you can have them installed to create the window-widening effect as well. Make sure that you let your window covering company know that this is what you plan to do and they will make that you get the correctly-sized window blinds and that they are installed in a way that makes the window look wider.

Another way to make small windows seem bigger is to install decorative window moldings. There are many different types of decorative moldings available, so you should be able to find one that suits your taste and fits in with the décor of your home.

Having plantation window shutters installed over small windows is another way to make them seem larger. This is especially true for windows where few other window coverings will work well, like small privacy windows in bathrooms and basement windows.

Another way you can make small windows seem bigger is to use patterns in your window coverings. To create the illusion of a taller window, choose window coverings with vertically-oriented patterns. To create the illusion of a wide window, choose window coverings with horizontally-oriented patterns.

Mirrors are a great way to make small windows seem larger because they reflect light when they are placed properly in relationship to the window. The best positions for mirrors to bring more light into a room with small windows are beneath the windows or across from the windows.

If you’d like learn more about a window covering in Destin, FL that can help make small windows seem bigger, you can talk with our knowledgeable team at McNeill Palm. You can visit our showroom at 655 Grand Blvd Ste 106D, Miramar Beach, FL 32250, or you can contact us at (850) 613-6228.