Built For The Salt Air
Thermalite polymer shutters, made to measure in Australia and fitted from Coolangatta to Hope Island. Hinged, sliding or fixed — and no timber, for a reason the salt air explains below.
Why Lusso, Gold Coast
Polymer, Not Timber
Timber shutters look superb, and there is a reason every second showroom on this coast leads with them. We do not sell them, and we do not sell plantation shutters either. Within a few kilometres of the water, the material is the whole decision — so we make it once, properly, and stand behind it.
The range
Local conditions
The Hinges Go First
A marine atmosphere does not stop at the beachfront. The Gold Coast has several hundred kilometres of constructed canals threading salt water through Hope Island, Sovereign Islands, Mermaid Waters and Broadbeach Waters, which is why a house eight kilometres inland can sit in the same corrosive air as one at Main Beach. In a timber shutter the blades take up that moisture, swell against the frame and stop closing flush. The paint film lifts before the timber does.
The part people forget is the hardware. A shutter is blades, a frame, and a set of small metal components — hinges, pins, tension screws, magnetic catches — and those pit long before anything visible goes wrong. A panel that will not sit shut has failed, however good the blades still look from the driveway.
Add the aspect. East-facing glass on this coast takes direct sun from first light through most of the morning, and a shutter is the one furnishing you can leave closed against the heat while still tilting the blades for air. That is the argument for them here, and it is a better one than the showroom photograph. Where a shutter is not the right call, the rest of our blinds on the Gold Coast usually is.
A shutter you re-hang every third summer is not a window furnishing. It is a subscription.
The detail that matters
The Detail That Decides It
Three things that change whether a shutter still works in five years. None of them appear on a showroom price list, and all three are settled before we quote.
We need the dimensions and the aspect of the room before we can quote, because they decide the panel layout. A west-facing living room wants its stiles away from the sightline; a bathroom wants a fixed panel where a hinged one would swing into the vanity. Getting that wrong is not a fault you can adjust out later.
Most Gold Coast balcony shutters go on a unit, and anything fixed to the exterior of a lot usually needs body corporate approval as an improvement to common property. We would rather raise it at the measure than have you find out at installation. Colour and frame choice are often what the committee actually cares about, and both are easy to accommodate up front.
Corded window coverings are a genuine hazard in a child's room, and they carry a mandatory safety standard in Australia for that reason. A shutter has no cord and no chain at all. If that is the problem you are solving in a nursery or a child's bedroom, it is the strongest argument for shutters we can make, and it costs us the safety-device upsell to say so.
Gold Coast clients
Three of eighty-five
Every one of these was left by someone who had shutters fitted alongside something else — which is the usual pattern. Shutters go where fabric struggles, and curtains go everywhere else.
We had shutters, blinds and curtains made by Lusso Fashion for our unit. The service was prompt and professional and completed even earlier than expected. Deb has a knack of knowing exactly what will suit the client and is…
Lynne & Peter
We love our shutters and curtains that were installed by Lusso Fashion for Windows. Friendly, professional and efficient service. Highly recommended.
Kelly Hunter
Quality service, my blinds and shutters look amazing! Highly recommend using Lusso for any of your window coverings!
Amanda & Nathan Ryan
Where they go
Room By Room
This is the room shutters were made for. Fabric and moisture are a poor combination, and a blind that lives in steam will show it within a couple of years. A polymer shutter wipes down, tilts for privacy and air at the same time, and does not care how long the shower runs. If you fit shutters in one room only, make it this one.
QuoteShutters tilt, they do not black out. Closed blades still pass a line of light at every joint, so if the problem is a 5am December sunrise you want block out blinds on the Gold Coast instead, or a shutter with one behind it. We would rather tell you that now than fit the wrong thing beautifully.
QuoteExternal shutters close off a balcony against wind and low afternoon sun while still letting air through the blades, which is the thing a solid screen cannot do. On a unit, check the body corporate first. Where the span is wide or the exposure is severe, outdoor blinds on the Gold Coast are often the better answer.
QuoteSliding shutter panels stack across the opening on a track, so there is nothing to rattle in a sea breeze and no cord to manage. It is the one application where we will happily talk you out of curtains, because a full-height sheer across a door you use forty times a day becomes a chore.
QuoteTilted blades cut glare and heat while keeping the airflow, which is straightforward passive shading and works better on east and west glass than anything you can hang. In a kitchen the wipe-clean argument applies again. For everything softer, our custom curtain range is the other half of most jobs.
QuoteHow it works
Three steps, quote in 48 hours
We come to you anywhere on the Gold Coast. Detailed quote within 24 to 48 hours, valid for 30 days — no deposit to get a price.
We need the dimensions and the aspect of the room before we can quote. No showroom visit, and no obligation.
Itemised component by component, with the lead time on it, and valid for 30 days.
Nothing starts until you are 100% comfortable with the selections. Then 4 to 6 weeks to installation.
Where we work
Fitted Across The Coast
From Byron Bay to Brisbane, across the whole Gold Coast and inland to the hinterland. If you're anywhere on that stretch, we'll come to you.
Before you ask
It depends on the opening, and any figure quoted before a measure is a guess. What moves the number is the size of the opening, how many panels it takes, and whether the panels are hinged, sliding or fixed — a bank of small bathroom windows and a single 3.6 metre sliding door run can cost the same and look nothing alike on paper. We measure for free, quote within 24 to 48 hours, itemise it component by component, and hold the price for 30 days.
4 to 6 weeks from check-measure to installation, and that number goes on your quote rather than appearing after you have paid a deposit. It is a good-faith estimate, not a contractual guarantee. Larger runs and unusual colours sit at the top of that range.
No. We supply Thermalite polymer shutters only, in hinged, sliding and fixed configurations. Timber and plantation shutters are what most of this coast advertises, and we have decided not to sell them, because within a few kilometres of salt water they are a maintenance commitment we are not willing to hand a client.
For a coastal home, yes. Polymer has no grain to take up moisture and no paint film to lift, so the blades keep closing flush and the finish holds. Timber is the better looking material in a dry climate and we will not pretend otherwise. On the Gold Coast, where canal estates push salt air well inland, the material outlives the aesthetic argument.
Yes, and external shutters work well against wind and low sun because the blades still pass air. Two things to settle first. If you are in a unit, fixing anything to the outside of the lot generally needs body corporate approval. And if the span is very wide or very exposed, outdoor blinds usually do the job better — we will say so at the measure.
All of them, and past them. We fit from Byron Bay to Brisbane, which takes in Coolangatta, Palm Beach, Currumbin, Burleigh Heads, Mermaid Beach, Broadbeach, Surfers Paradise, Main Beach, Southport, Bundall, Robina, Nerang, Helensvale, Runaway Bay, Paradise Point, Hope Island and Sanctuary Cove. Larger projects we take nationwide.
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Free measure & quote, Gold Coast wide
Tell us which rooms and we'll come to you with the fabric range, measure properly, and tell you honestly which windows need side tracks and which don't.
