ᐅ Our house now has window shutters!

Created on: 10 Jul 2021 22:35
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Steffi33
10 Jul 2021 22:35
A local carpentry workshop made us beautiful larch shutters… however, they were untreated/raw. We primed them ourselves and painted them with our chosen color (RAL 7033 cement gray) using a spray gun. Today we installed them.. tada..


Bright detached house with colorful flower garden and paved path to the entrance.


Covered entrance of a house with two columns, gray shutters, and potted plants at the entrance.


Four wooden doors with upper ventilation slats standing on the floor in a workshop.


Four greenish-gray cabinet doors with lower slats standing on wooden supports in a workshop.
i_b_n_a_n11 Jul 2021 05:10
Great idea, excellent carpenter, and perfect execution!
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shenja
11 Jul 2021 06:45
What a wonderful house with a beautiful garden. Are there more pictures of it?
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Zaba12
11 Jul 2021 11:55
I also think it looks nice, but beyond decoration, considering the effort involved in opening and closing it multiple times a day on a cloudy sunny day when needed, it’s just not practical, is it?
11ant11 Jul 2021 13:41
shenja schrieb:

What a wonderful house with a beautiful garden. Are there more pictures of it?
A (unfortunately only limited) workaround would be to enter "pictures" in the search function and then enter "Steffi33" under "posted by:". Limited because it only leads to part of the desired results.
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Snowy36
11 Jul 2021 13:59
Zaba12 schrieb:

I think they look nice, but if you consider the effort involved in opening and closing them multiple times a day on a cloudy but sunny day, they are more decorative than practical, right?

We have aluminum ones all around the house.
The big advantage is that you can close them in the morning to keep the heat out, but inside it’s not as dark as with roller shutters. At night, you can close them and open the window behind without worrying about someone breaking in—this is how people do it in southern Europe.
However, they do limit the window sizes you can have, and they aren’t cheap.
But I just love the Mediterranean look they give off.
Everything has to fit together, including the style of the house. People who prefer black and white shades might do better with Venetian blinds (also called blinds or venetian blinds)—a click, and everything lowers, which is practical.
That said, you always have to be careful with wind, and since we live on a hill, it wouldn’t have made much sense here.