Choosing Blinds for Your Children’s Bedroom: The Ultimate Guide
Your child’s bedroom should be a fun environment, but also a restful one. Choosing the right blinds for your children’s bedroom is, therefore, incredibly important. Redecorating your little one’s bedroom is an incredibly pleasant project to undertake, and an excellent opportunity to get a little creative! When you’re planning the re-do, it’s important to focus on achieving a good balance between creating a space that is both engaging and inspiring, yet also lends itself to rest and relaxation. Put simply, the bedroom should reflect your child and their hobbies and interests, whilst being a practical place to play, study and sleep….
Continue readingHow to Maximise Space in a Small Room
Transforming a cramped and claustrophobic ‘box’ room into a comfortable and welcoming space can seem like an impossible task. However, by applying some simple tricks you can create the illusion of a much larger, airier and brighter space. Today, we are sharing our three top tips on how to make the most of the smaller rooms in your home. 1. Keep it minimal The more possessions and patterns you add to a small room, the more cluttered it can feel. To avoid this, clear out any unnecessary furniture and keep your space tidy (easier said than done, we know). This minimal…
Continue readingHow to Care for Your Wooden Plantation Shutters
Not only are shutters an elegant and stylish addition to your home, but they are also the easiest of all window dressings to keep clean. Investing in bespoke wooden shutters is no small feat, but with the right maintenance they can last for decades. So, if you’ve recently had a set of swish wooden plantation shutters fitted in your home, it’s important that you learn about best care practices so that you can keep them in tip-top condition and ensure you get the most out of them. Today, we’re going to share with you our top tips for caring for your…
Continue readingChristmas Hours
Our team would like to say a huge thank you to all of our clients throughout 2022. It has been a pleasure to provide blinds and shutters to so many lovely homes across the North East. We would also like to take this time to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will be closing on December 23rd and will reopen on January 3rd. This is to allow our team to relax over the festive period. We look forward to fitting many more window dressings in 2023 and looking after customers old and new.
Continue readingThe Energy Saving Benefits of Duette Blinds
With energy prices still soaring and utility bills becoming ever more astronomical, we’re all desperately looking for ways to lower energy usage in our homes and businesses. However, you may not have considered the role that window coverings can play in cutting your energy costs. If so, it may come as a surprise to learn that installing Duette blinds could potentially be the most energy savvy choice you make this winter. That’s right, Duette blinds can actually help you to save money on your energy bills. Intrigued? Keep reading to find out just how these incredible window dressings work in your…
Continue readingBuying Blinds and Shutters: The Benefits of Shopping Local
Here at Angel Blinds & Shutters, we’re proud to provide residents of the local area with quality products and an excellent standard of customer service. As an established business operating in Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne with over 40 years of industry experience, we’re committed to providing our customers with the very best. We believe that, in a large part, this commitment is made possible through the fact that we operate on a face-to-face basis, rather than online. In light of this, we’d like to shine a light on some of the key benefits of buying your shutters and blinds locally,…
Continue readingHelp Reduce Your Energy Usage With Better Insulation
Well-fitted shutters and blinds are a great way to keep your home insulated and reduce your energy usage; which is better for both the earth and your pocket. With energy prices reaching record highs this winter many people are looking for ways to reduce their energy usage and save the pennies. Better insulation is one of the top ways to reduce your energy usage – keeping your home warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer – and windows can account for 10 to 20% of a home’s heat loss. A New Look While Conserving Energy Although windows are one…
Continue readingWhy You Should Upgrade to Motorised Blinds
Here at Angel Blinds & Shutters we offer a fantastic selection of motorised electric blinds and shades. An affordable luxury, our team can fit your home with beautiful, made-to-measure motorised blinds that will open and close simply at the touch of a button. Motorised electric blinds bring with them a wide range of advantages and can revolutionise the way we think of window dressings in our homes, which is what we’re going to be delving into here today! So, what’s all the fuss about? 1/ Perfect for hard to reach windows! One of the primary attractions to motorised…
Continue readingHow To Cut Your Energy Costs In 2022
We could give you a whole host of reasons as to why we believe that blinds truly top curtains. Top of our list, however, has to be cutting energy costs. It may sound simple – perhaps even too good to be true – but installing blinds or shutters can drastically reduce the amount of energy your home requires on a day-to-day basis. “But how…exactly?” Well, that’s exactly what we’re here to tell you… Reducing heat loss in colder months Opt for blinds fitted snuggly against your window frame. This way, you can drastically reduce the amount of heat that is lost…
Continue readingFaux Wood Shutters: Everything you need to know
Over recent years, we have witnessed a huge rise in the popularity of faux wood shutters; a permanent, durable and elegant fixture that work well in kitchens and bathrooms where humidity is a factor. Not only are they easy to clean and child-friendly, but they also have the major benefit of insulation, proving to be better than wood shutters in the energy-saving department. Here are our top four reasons to consider this trendy window dressing: 1. They are durable Faux wood shutters are made out of PVC, vinyl or a wood composite. Unlike real wood which can suffer from moisture damage,…
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