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2. Tall Windows

Option 9 Vinyl Shutter with frames, outside mount, california style with centrre tilt.                                   This setting $239.00

Option 8.  Standard outside mount bifold patio door.                   This setting $599.00

Option 10.  Single panel set in drywalled opening, 4 sided frame plantation centre tilt     This setting: $179.00

The History of Shutters

Shutters have had a long history of protecting windows on the outside, but they were originally designed for the inside of a home.

On Tudor (1485 - 1547) and Elizabethan (1558 - 1603) homes, shutters were made of solid boards and covered only the lower half of the window openings where no glass was installed (glass was expensive in those days.) When open fresh air came into the room and the shutters folded back to look like decorative wall panels. When closed, usually with a bar across light still came in through the glazed upper half of the window.

By the late seventeenth century, double hung windows were popular. Shutters were still attached inside and decorative but the covered the entire window.
During the Victorian period (1837 - 1901) when more houses were constructed from wood shutters moved outdoors. The former staone and brick had such deeply recessed windows that exterior shutters would have been difficult to reach from the inside, but wooden walls could be built much thinner and exterior shutters could now be accessed easily from the inside.

By the late nineteenth century, shutters were used as much for decaoration as for their practical functions of shelter and [rotection for the glass. When mechanization entered the ictorian millworks, shutters became more sophisticated. They were often louvered or made of narrow horizontal slats angled to deflect the rain, allow some daylight through and provide adequate ventilation.

In the 1980's window technology and window covering choices eliminated the functional use of outside shutters. However, the revival of Victorian-Style housing and the interest in rehabilitating century-old homes are bringing shutters back into the limelight as an interior window treatment.

Originally available only in wood, as technology advances and newer materials became available shutters began to appear made of Vinyl, Aluminium, Engineered wood composites, Foam injected and post-consumer recyled materials.

Traditional                   California                  Plantation

(with centre tilt bar)

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Custom Stains to Match

Open concept home with dark stained floor to ceiling kitchen cabinets.  Plantation Shutters stained to match, Clearview (no tilt-bar)  This option 25% more than standard white but less in this case.  Customer received a Whole Home Discount.  Additional window treatments, Hunter Douglas Silhouettes and Custom Drapery