HTA-0608: Bay Home and Window — Plantation Shutters

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Henry hosts a segment showcasing plantation shutters and window treatments from Bay Home and Window.

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That is so cool.

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You know, we've been doing segments about plantation shutters for a while now.

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I've never seen something like this.

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Tiny little shutters, perfect.

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You can check, see who's outside the door, and you can have complete privacy if you want.

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What a great idea.

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So plantation shutters, small, big windows, doors.

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We are in a beautiful home located in Livermore.

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Brand new home.

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And what they added to an already beautiful architectural style was these plantation shutters.

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And look what it does to the home.

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It adds an architectural element, adds all of these beautiful lines, and yet it opens

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up the whole room.

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And you can do that for the windows.

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These for example, you've got French doors, swing out with the shutters.

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This is the sort of thing that you really couldn't possibly do with the curtains or

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with blinds.

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And something like this upgrades an older house as well because it gives it this clean, modern

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look that is really quite beautiful.

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I'm actually, I'm pretty well sold on these plantation shutters.

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They were actually invented way back 19th century in the southeast,

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where it would get hot in the summer, cold in the winter.

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And what they do is they provide insulation.

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So that was the first use for it, terrific insulation.

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But then what they discovered is that they also add light to a room.

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And of course, they've got all this elegance.

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So as you can see in this home, they've used this style in many different ways

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to add the extra light.

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Now, obviously, the insulation makes a big difference, too.

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It's sort of a multipurpose function,

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and nobody can speak better to that

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than the president of Bayhoman Window Factory Direct Shutter Source.

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Can I give you a round of applause, please, for Jeff Falcon?

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Thank you very much.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Nice to have you here with us.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Yes, that's right, they are.

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A place like this, they could have done,

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They could have done blinds.

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They could have done curtains.

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So what's the difference?

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Well, shutters do three things in a home that most window coverings just simply can't do.

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Number one, architecturally, it opens up a room like nothing else really can by adding sculpture and light to the room.

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Number two, they add a lot of insulation.

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And I think the reason that people really like them is that they're just stunning.

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They're beautiful.

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And they're flexible.

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And by the way, they're fun to play with, too.

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I love that little installation at the front door.

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It's nice to be able to close it off.

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You've never seen anything like that before.

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Very cool.

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If people are interested in something like this, what do they need to know about plantation shutters?

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Well, I think the most important things that people need to understand about shutters is,

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number one, they come in different material types,

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and understanding which type is best for them is very, very important.

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Number two, even the different material types come in different construction grade levels and quality.

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And having a customer understand what those differences are and what they mean in their environment is critical, I think.

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The other thing is having a salesman and an installer and a company that understands what the options are and what works best for any given environment.

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Absolutely.

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Now, obviously, you've got a lot of different kinds of windows that you can deal with.

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It's not just the nice, handy rectangles.

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Let's take a look at some of them.

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Well, we can do any shape, any size window.

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Arch windows are absolutely stunning with shutters.

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Boy, look at that.

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Gorgeous.

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It makes a big difference.

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Bathrooms can be done, almost any kind of room, any shape, even doors and patio.

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And they don't have to be white, right?

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No, they come in stained, they come in all kinds of different shapes, so they can be used in absolutely any circumstance.

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And, of course, one of the best applications is doors, because that's a case where really blinds are...

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Blinds don't work well indoors.

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Yeah, ugly, and curtains don't work well, so come on over here.

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This is just a good little example.

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Well, this is an example of a French door, and what's nice about shutters over any other type of window,

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covering is that when you use a plantation shutter on a French door it becomes part of the door

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it architecturally keeps the look that was designed to be in the house yeah and of course

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you also get that extra added element when you're ready to have some privacy you get this so close

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many different kinds of doors that you deal with yeah well French doors are very very popular but

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so are sliding glass doors and it's hard to find a window covering that works really well as sliding

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glass doors so in a French door situation not only does it become part of the door but it doesn't

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slam around like other types of window coverings.

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- This is me dancing with one of their customers.

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There was a pretty good dance we had there.

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And that would be a bypass door for slide doors.

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- Yes, a triple door if you have any kind of architecture

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in the door works very, very well.

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- So you get to exercise a fair bit of creativity

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when you're designing these.

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These are especially wider than most doors

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that I think of slide doors.

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- Well, this is a typical eight foot door

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and more and more homes have eight foot

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even wider type of doors.

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And you know, the vertical blinds that get all messed up

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to control just don't work well on these types of doors. But shutters actually become part of the

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door. They allow you so many different moods and they work so simply, simply by closing the louvers.

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You can shut everybody out. When you want to open it all the way up, you simply do this. And it works

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very nicely, doesn't it? Wow. So you completely, you can clear out a large space and get a good look.

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You can indeed, yes. And then it's easy enough to just slide it back in like so. Right. And there

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are other ways you can do a door. This is a sliding system, but there are folding systems that have

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all the panels fold completely off the door

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on a track system as well.