Shutters in Merewether

What we fit here, window by window

Balconies and ocean-facing openings: aluminium, powder-coated, always. The verandah that looks at the break is the hardest-working opening in the house. Extruded blades, stainless pivots, marine-grade fixings; a fresh-water rinse keeps it bright. Timber out here is a two-year regret.

Inside: PVC with aluminium-reinforced louvres. The spray never lands in the lounge room, but the salt air's humidity does. A stiffened PVC blade holds straight through it, takes the same paint-white finish, and shrugs off the beach-towel season.

The view windows: 114 mm blades. If the window frames the horizon, we spec the widest louvre: fewer blades across the glass, more sky and water through the same opening, and the whole reason you bought on this hill kept intact.

Renovations and whole-home fit-outs. A lot of Merewether's work is owners staying put and doing it properly: one measure across the whole house, materials mapped room by room, wet areas in PVC, and the street-side windows tuned for privacy against the morning walk to the baths.

Aluminium outside, reinforced PVC inside, 114 mm where the ocean is. That's the Merewether sheet.

The same exposure logic carries the neighbours: Bar Beach's apartment windows and The Junction's houses behind the shops sit in the same salt band and take the same materials. The full reasoning: choosing shutters by exposure.