Tips on How to Choose the Right Shutters For Businesses

In any workspace, there are always going to be three key factors that are central to its peak performance: efficiency, productivity and security. It may sound unrelated, but in reality, the blinds and shutters that you pick for your business will secretly be playing their own role influencing all three. Ready to change the DNA of your business- starting from the windows? Let’s help you discover which one will be best for you.

Office Spaces

In the case of an office space, your priority will be the ability to mitigate screen glare and maximise energy efficiency. Tier-on-Tier shutters designed for businesses are therefore the norm for offices as these blinds feature dual panels which can face versatile positions across either the top or bottom of a window.

This ensures that monitors are safe from the glare of sunlight, or open to natural lighting at the push of a button, thereby limiting the use of artificial lighting to reduce energy costs. Using this type of flexible design lets you take control of your own productivity and energy bills with a single blind’s installation.

Shopfronts and Warehouses

The choice of shutters for your business can also be an opportunity to boost your brand locally. As a provider of blinds based in Glasgow, The Blind Guy will put your local brand at the front of its design process to custom-build a secure style of branded security shutters, if you are seeking to protect your warehouse out of hours while proving it’s your brand alone that can take care of itself.

Security and commercial shutters are fire-rated and use motor controls that are most commonly used for businesses which are based inside warehouses, featuring corrosion-proof steel fittings that will securely protect your shopfront without the need for significant upkeep overtime.

Restaurants and Cafés

The blinds and shutters in a restaurant or café differ from the last two uses in that they predominantly favour aesthetic factors over function. Since security is also essential for these businesses however, owners will often install external security shutters alongside more elegant blinds from inside the window frames.

The ‘café style shutter’ is, in fact, a style of shutter in its own right though and can be seen frequently in the many catering businesses throughout Glasgow. This style of blind only blocks light from the window’s bottom half to maximise the entrance of natural light into the space while allowing control for privacy and the blocking of intense sunlight. Given our average local weather conditions, you can see why these are often seen left open!

Still Not Sure? Ask Us!

If the process of picking your business’ blinds and shutters has only just begun, it’s easy to get lost in the countless options. There are several types to mull over, but this only means that the perfect option is one as unique as your business.

We can talk you through which blinds we think would be best for your business with a free consultation over the phone at 0141 261 8482. With three of our blind stores being based in Glasgow, and one only a short drive away in South Lanarkshire, you are also invited to visit our shops to see our designs in person to decide which is your favourite.