Darlin.. I have those in my den at home. I love them, but mine are not shears because the TV is in there with the setting sun..lol.
The swing arm rods ? Aren't they great.
I love the plantation shutters, too. I have great natural light in my house, its one of the features I loved most when I first saw it. I wanted to keep as much of that as possible. I put shutters on every window where they're not totally impractical... Upstairs almost all my windows are protected from view by very tall trees but I still have great light so I have white plantation shutters on the lower half of the windows up there and on most of them just a bit of fabric above the window or a roman shade taht I have keep pulled up most of the time.