Wood Shutters Elegant, custom and completely unique to your windows - Avenue Shutters are the ultimate expression of gracious interior design. You deserve the luxury of Avenue Custom Shutters which are constructed of select premium hardwoods, specialty shapes, and customization for any window, any shape, and any size. Hand-selected premium basswood and other hardwoods offer master craftsmanship and furniture-quality finish.

Plantation Shutters There are shutters that decorates a home, and there are shutters that define a home. Made from the finest basswoods and hardwoods, crafted by hand and finished with a rich palette of 18 paints and 32 stains, Avenue Shutters are truly fine furniture for your windows. The refined elegance of the Avenue line is created artisans who craft each custom shutter using mortise and tension joinery, arguably the strongest joint in woodworking.

Heritance Shutters Heritance hardwood shutters are crafted for maximum strength and durability using Trumill dovetail joinery and finished with 100 Integra paint and stain finishes. A vast selection of frame choices , specialty shapes , configuration options and louver sizes gives you one of the largest selections in the industry.

A window shutter is a solid and stable window covering usually consisting of a frame of vertical stiles and horizontal rails (top, center and bottom). Set within this frame can be louvres (both operable or fixed, horizontal or vertical), solid panels, fabric, glass and most any other item that can be mounted within a frame. Shutters may be employed for a variety of reasons, including controlling the amount of sunlight that enters a room, to provide privacy, to protect against weather and to enhance the aesthetics of a building. Depending on the application, and the construction of the window frame, shutters can be mounted to fit within the opening or to overlap the opening. The term window shutter includes both interior shutters, used on the inside of a house or building, and exterior shutters, used on the outside of a structure. On some styles of buildings it is common to have shutters to cover the doors as well as the windows.

 

Interior shutters

Interior shutters usually hinge on either side of a window opening, and swing inwards to allow access to the window or to allow light to enter a room. Operable louvreed shutters have louvres, or slats, that rotate open and closed to control light, visibility and airflow. Shutters that have operable louvres are described using different terms such as traditional shutters, California shutters, or plantation shutters which typically refers to the size of the louver blade. Other interior shutters use stationary louvres that do not rotate (fixed louvres), solid panels that can be raised, recessed or flat, fabric inserts or tinted glass. Shutters can be configured in a single tier unit that has one shutter top to bottom of a window opening as well as multiple tiers. Multiple tier units feature separate shutters on each tier which allows the top shutters to be opened independently from the bottom shutters. Café type shutters refer to shutters that only cover the lower portion of a window.