Blinds and Shutters in Howard

We supply and install blinds, plantation shutters and security screens in Howard and the surrounding rural area.

Howard is a small rural town on the Bruce Highway, north-west of Hervey Bay and north of Maryborough, and the commercial centre for the Burrum Coast farming district. It’s also a growing residential community for workers and families who want affordable property within commuting distance of Hervey Bay and Maryborough. The surrounding sugar cane, grazing and mixed farming land creates a dust and debris environment that affects window furnishings differently from the coastal Hervey Bay suburbs.

Older Howard homes, many built in the Queensland timber-and-tin tradition, often have generous verandahs and high ceilings that lend themselves well to plantation shutters both aesthetically and practically. New residential construction in Howard is more varied — ranging from project homes to rural lifestyle properties — with modern open-plan layouts that suit the same roller blind and panel glide solutions common in Hervey Bay’s newer suburbs.

Being inland, Howard properties don’t face the salt air challenges of coastal Hervey Bay, but dust penetration from the surrounding agricultural land is a consideration — security screens serve a dual purpose here, keeping out both insects and agricultural dust.