Sydney Shutters In-Home Consultation
Shutters are made from a large range of materials, from natural timbers to a selection of synthetic products. Each material type is chosen for its individual characteristics, whether it be durability, warmth, grain pattern, colour or suitability for special environments. All materials used are of the highest quality and are sure to add value and character to a home.
Quotation, Design & Installation
The Marlow & Finch free quote and design service is something that we not only pride ourselves on but continually strive to make it our differentiator. Our design and installation experts will work with you to give the best advice on what type of Shutter, colour and design will work best in any given space in your home. This personal service is crucial to getting the correct result in every environment; as such our staff have dedicated budgets for research, training and design events nationally to ensure we are always at the forefront of the industry.
Tracked Shutter Options
Specialty Shapes
Even the most unusual of window shapes can be dressed with Norman shutters. Popular styles include arches, circles, gables and triangles. Feature windows have never looked so good. Not applicable to Woodlore.
Top 10 Reasons Why
1. Reinforced Engineered Wood Stiles – Multiple layers of hardwood veneer bonded together, strengthen the core of the stile providing a lifetime of durability and stability.
2. Mortise and Tenon Joinery – Found only in fine crafted furniture, our mortise & tenon joints will help keep your shutters square and true guaranteeing long term functionality.
3. Quarter Sawn Wood Louvres – Not the inferior flat-sawn louvers seen in regular wood shutters, Norman’s quarter sawn louvres withstand the woods natural tendency to cup, twist and warp.
4. Recessed Magnets – Recessed magnets are embedded into each stile to eliminate the gap between the shutter panel and shutter frame, creating a simple and clean look from every angle.
5. Invisible Tilt – The louvres move in unison like magic with no visible tilt rod. Invisible Tilt’s gear driven system is built into each stile and operates louvres flawlessly with precision light and view control.
6. Decorative Accessories – Decorative accessories to enhance the functionality of your shutters, including panel pulls, panel locks and hinges in a wide range of finishes.
7. Superior Finishing – Includes multiple hand sanding and finishing sequences for a richer and luxurious finish. In Woodlore, the polypropylene coating is medical grade quality creating a healthy home and resisting scratching, chipping, peeling and yellowing under the harsh Australian sun.
8. Prescription Wood Conditioning – The moisture level in each wood shutter component is custom kiln dried to match the ambient moisture conditions of its final destination. This unique drying process improves the long-term stability of the shutter panels and frames once in service.
9. Environmentally Friendly and Safe – All the materials chosen for Norman shutters are done with the environment and your family’s safety in mind. From sustainable and legally sourced wood products to safe and recyclable high-grade polymers and wood composites. Nurtured from our forests to our factories to your home.
10. Norman is the wisest choice for shutters – We offer a 5 year ‘No questions Asked’ warranty on all our shutters. Dependable and high quality, Norman shutters are covered by a comprehensive warranty for extra peace of mind. The warranty that even covers life’s little mishaps. If you break or damage it, we’ll offer a one-time repair or replacement, for free with no questions asked! See full details on the Product Warranty page.
Shutter Ranges
From Woodlore “the democratic shutter for all walks of life” to Ultra “the best and most beautiful timber shutter in the world” Norman has the ideal shutter solution to suit every window and decor. Norman’s wide range offers a “one stop shutter shop”, covering every style, colour, shape, size, function and budget.
Woodlore
An iconic choice with renowned durability, strength and simplicity. Resists peeling, cracking, chipping and yellowing. No wonder it’s No.1 among the world’s homeowners. Now with a next-generation formulation utilising 30% more wood in Woodlore’s premium engineered wood composite core – real wood in an advanced state – Woodlore is ever more stable and robust, and stronger than solid wood shutters, free from any of wood’s naturally occurring imperfections and has higher resistance to heat damage such as warping, sagging and cupping compared to PVC or vinyl shutters. It is also a big on safety, VOC safe and CARB P2 complaint for off-gassing.
Woodlore features an exclusive patented medical-grade safe polypropylene coating with a UV inhibitor. Smooth, durable and robust, the coating provides extra protection against the knocks and bumps of today’s busy family lifestyles and resists fading and yellowing under the harsh Australian sun.
Woodlore Plus
Advanced strength, technology and options. It’s Woodlore but more. Woodlore Plus is a hybrid shutter utilising a lightweight yet durable ABS for its louvres. The louvres are made with high grade recyclable ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) built with aircraft inspired construction for maximum strength and stiffness. In good company. ABS is a material often used in high-endurance applications such as appliances, car parts and helmets. These product features combined with an enhanced Engineered Wood Composite stile core make the Woodlore Plus shutter program stronger, tougher and more versatile than ever before.
Woodlore Plus Waterproof
Designed specifically for wet areas around the home, Woodlore Plus Waterproof remains amazingly lightweight and achieves the perfect balance between beauty, strength and durability. Also, if you have specific windows that you like to keep open for ventilation 24/7 this program will endure the unexpected shower of rain or constant moist sea breeze.
Brightwood
100% hardwood panels using premium quality timbers from qualified sustainable sources. Mounting frames are made from Woodlore Plus’s robust EWC material finished with a paintable extrusion polymer coating. The panels and frames are perfectly colour matched with the same high quality paint finishes applied to the Norman premium timber shutter ranges. This program combination provides a seamless shutter solution providing consumers with an affordable high quality painted timber shutter with great looks, expansive panels (up to 1066mm wide) and durable performance.
The use of specialised premium hardwood makes the shutter panels lighter allowing the ability to hinge 3 or 4 panels together and the ability to make special shapes. Brightwood, combining beauty with functionality, all wrapped up in our entry-level hardwood shutter range.
Normandy
Natural beauty of premium hardwood
Sophisticated and unique, take up residence with Normandy shutters, displaying wood’s unique natural beauty and luxury. Normandy is made from solid timber sourced from sustainably managed hardwood forests and plantations. Normandy stained shutters are made from Phoenixwood, which offers a rich natural gran showing both depth and character. Phoenixwood also offers one of the highest strength to weight ratios among all types of wood and non-wood shutters. All Normandy hardwoods are prescription wood conditioned for long term stability in service. There is nothing quite like the natural elegance of Normandy premium hardwood shutters.
Ultra
ULTRA
From durability to style options to build quality, Norman Ultra represents the culmination of our 20-plus years of shutter innovation and craftsmanship. By incorporating our very best ideas, design and knowledge – along with our best materials, you’ll see why we’re proud to call Ultra our flagship shutter.
Ultra is made from 100% super-premium selected hardwood sourced from multiple tree species, taking the best part of each type of tree. Made with 30% more wood, Ultra is bigger, stronger, and more solid and robust. Ultra makes the statement you have arrived, cool, collected and calm. With 30% more paint, followed by multiple hand sanding and finishing, Ultra embodies quality not unlike the finest heirloom furniture, displaying a contemporary elegance that will impress friend and neighbours.
ULTRA HINGE
Shutter Styles
Browse our range of available shutter styles.
FULL HEIGHT
Our most popular style that creates a real sense of scale and clean lines from top to bottom. Just simple and elegant.
CAFE SHUTTER
Adding a touch of continental style the panels only cover the bottom half of your windows. Allows plenty of light to fill your room while maintain a degree of privacy.
DOUBLE HUNG
By operating the top and bottom panels independently you have ultimate control over the light and your view and privacy.
BAY WINDOWS
Beautiful square and Victorian bay windows can be transformed by made to measure full height, double-hung or Café style Norman shutters.
FULL HEIGHT
For a more traditional finish to your windows, solid panels block out the light when closed and provide an additional barrier to the outside elements. Also, Norman offers options to mix solid segments with louvre segments throughout the height of the panels. A classic look for older-period homes.
TRACKED SHUTTERS
Adding top and bottom tracks allows you to create wide stunning window and door openings that offer ultimate functionality. Choosing from Norman’s many bi-fold or bypass tracked options you can operate multiple panels in one smooth motion. Options include 90° and 180° bi-fold and open and closed louvre bypass systems.
Panel Options
PERFECTTILT™ SHUTTER
Home Automation with Flair
Put the power to command your shutters in the palm of your hands. Control a single shutter, a room or shutters or every shutter in your house – exactly how you want it. The PerfectTilt ™ App tracks battery power and when paired with the hub option, enables control through iPhone or iPad. The ultimate in seamless and effortless control, PerfectTilt includes an auto switch feature that changes tilt methods automatically. Go from iPhone/iPad tilt to manual hand tilt, to tilt with the premium metal remote control featuring dial adjustment. There is no need to flip any extra switches or to take any extra steps. Plus, the optional repeater increases signal range for reliable control on large homes.
Each shutter also includes a solar panel to extend battery life, sometimes for years on a single charge when installed in exceptionally sunny locations – for the ultimate in energy efficiency. Plus, get extra child and pet safety with the built-in sensor that stops louver rotation when needed.
LOUVRE SIZES
PANEL LAYOUT
TILT CONTROL
Deco Frames
The Deco series is for outside mount applications and creates the look of a custom framed window. Suitable for all interior wall surfaces deco frames decorate the window opening while covering up any geometrical imperfections.
L-Frame
Z-Frame
Z frames are for inside mount applications creating shutter installations that are aligned with the face of the reveal opening and don’t protrude into the room. There are a range of Z frame styles which can either create a big shutter presence or a minimalist compact appearance. Also, again if your windows have some geometrical imperfections (i.e. out of square) Z frames are a great installation method to hide the opening flaws.
Mission Sill Cap
The mission sill cap offers modern style and can “cap” most marble or stone sills effectively building out the sill for a more traditional look. The sill cap can also create a sill if the existing window opening is without a sill.
Mission Sill Frame
Compared to the mission sill cap, the mission sill frame offers a more petite sill with less projection into the room.
T-Posts
Standard and Custom Width T-Posts
If your window falls into one of the following categories, our standard and custom size T-Post widths are available:
Other T-Post Options include:
Direct Mount Options
Hang Strip
The hang strip is a very compact installation method and if installed inside the window opening behind the shutter panel can give you the look of having no frame at all. This provides a minimal look with the shutter panels footprint completely inside the window opening. Note the opening has to be very square for such an installation. For those out of square windows the hang strip can also be face mounted outside the window reveal but note leave at least a 12mm gap between the edge of the window reveal and inside edge of the hang strip to provide a light block (top, bottom and sides) for the installation.
Can be installed on:
Direct Mount
Shutters can be ordered with no frame or hang strips at all. They can be mounted directly within the window opening. A great look with pre-existing window frame joinery. However, the window opening needs to be square and specialised hinges are available from Norman for such installations.
Can be installed on:
Speciality Shutter Options
DayNite Shutter
DAYNITE™ SHUTTER Norman’s DayNite™ shutter combines a single compact corded honeycomb shade installed to a batten behind the shutter frame providing the ultimate dimming effect, energy efficiency and noise dampening for any room in the home.
DayNite™ shutters can significantly calm and darken your room blocking out up to 97% of UV light. Coupled with the shutter, a virtually blackout room darkening effect is created. A perfect solution for shutters in a bedroom, a home theatre, or anywhere light control is critical. Not only does the added insulation in DayNite™ shutters help to lower your utility bills, it makes your home cooler in summer and warmer in winter. We utilise the same quality honeycomb fabric found Norman’s Portrait Honeycomb Collection.
French Door Cutouts
Additional Options
The experts in premium blinds & curtains
We are an Australian owned and operated family company based in Sydney that specialises in premium window furnishings and state-of-the-art technology for homeowners, investors, developers, architects and designers.
A qualified consultant will be sent to your home or office to measure, provide an obligation-free design & colour consult and select fabrics to best suit your room.
As most of our products are made in Sydney, we are able to guarantee speedy delivery within 80km of the Sydney CBD.
Marlow & Finch also travel to regional areas – please call our office on 02 8960 6103 to discuss eligibility.
All products are covered by a 3-year warranty.