Another reason I haven't been posting - been building my wife new shutters for her birthday. Started with a truckload of 5/4 cedar deck boards and you won't believe what happened next...
Yeah interested to see how the "improved" water based stains hold up. My house has good overhangs so my biggest concern will be the south side that gets a lot of sunlight.
Well, it's cedar...........the finish might provide a few more years protection and should keep it from weathering too much.
They look very nice. Do they actually close as well? Up here, they are mainly decorations attached beside the windows.
Unfortunately, they don't close. The way the screens go in our windows, it'd be impractical to make them fit. I did build them to fit and appear that they are operable. I know, it's "fake", but still a lot more real than most, and if we took the screens out and changed the hardware (which is $$), they could close
They are very impressive - nice work! Gives an already beautiful house even more character! Job well done!
Nice ! After all the trouble of making "real" shutters I would have made them real functioning hurricane shutters. Course, they'd likely actually get used as hurricane shutters here and I had them on my last house. I had the old fashioned wood storms that came off in Spring and wood screens that went on in their place. They had to come off to close the shutters. They sure do look nice. In some places in the world they use them to keep the sun/heat out.
Yeah believe me I was up and down on this, what killed it was the screens and hardware cost. Doing the hinges up right would have pushed the hardware cost per shutter pair from $15 to about $50, and I didn't want to have another $700 in hardware on top of the lumber bill. And I knew I'd never close them anyway... Where I live in upstate NY we don't get any hurricanes and my house has such huge overhangs that 3/4 of it is fully shaded at any time with the exception of the south side. But yeah, I went all the way through design and the hardware and reality of our use case killed the operating shutter idea. Can always retrofit later if things change though Garry
