Choosing and Installing Exterior Shutters - Lowe's

Basic black shutters offer a simple, stylish look for most homes. White shutters are also popular. However, there are many other colors to choose from. Most have color-matched mounting hardware.

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Materials include vinyl shutters, a popular choice that resists fading, rot, cracking and peeling. The woodgrain finish with routed edges provides a real-wood appearance. You’ll also find many homes with wooden shutters. Cedar shutters are a common wood choice because they’re insect-, warp- and weather-resistant.

Remove the Existing Shutters
If the old exterior window shutters are securely fastened to the house, don’t pry or pull them off, as this may damage the exterior wall. If possible, use shears or a saw to get behind the shutter and cut the fasteners.

Install the New Shutters
Installing vinyl shutters has become easier with the aid of vinyl spikes to attach the shutters rather than using metal hardware. We even have a video to show you the proper install method.

Measure and predrill the mounting holes into the frame, usually three holes along each side of the frame. Next, align the shutter next to the window and mark the hole locations through the holes onto your house. Use the pencil marks on your house as a guide for drilling pilot holes for your spikes. After drilling the marked hole locations, line up the shutter with the mounting holes and insert a vinyl spike into each hole and tap them into place with your hammer. Make sure all of the spikes are started before finishing tapping them into place.

Installing on Vinyl Siding: Vinyl siding expands and contracts with the weather. To avoid warping, don’t attach the shutters tightly. Also, drill the hole in the siding 1/4 inch larger than the fastener.

Attaching to Masonry: You’ll need a masonry bit and masonry wall anchors or suitable spikes (if provided with shutters). Drill and attach to the mortar, not to the brick.

Wooden shutters can be primed and painted any color, based on your preference. For plastic shutters, first prepare the surface by using a plastic primer product. Apply according to the instructions on the can. Wait the required amount of time and apply paint to the shutters. For best results, use an exterior oil-based paint or exterior latex paint.

After you have painted your shutters, you may want to finish with the addition of some stylish shutter hardware. Decorative metal hinges and color-matched screw and hinge caps can add texture and uniform colors.

Look at old photos. If you don’t have any, look around your neighborhood for similar houses and see the kind they have.  You can usually tell if the shutters are original.  Keep in mind that your house may have been built in and the shutters replaced in with a style popular at that time.  Shutter styles and hardware are also regional to your part of the country. You can contact your local historical society, though I doubt if any of them could provide any help.  Try them anyway; if not, call a Preservation Architect and ask for a recommendation.  Your State Historic Preservation Office will have a listing.

Board and Batten shutters and Raised Panel shutters were used during the 18th century and into the 19th century.  Strap Hinges were used and Rat-tail style tie-backs were most popular.

At the end of the 18th century louvered shutters began to gain in popularity.  Up to the Civil War, homes had raised paneled shutters on the first floor for privacy and security, but did not have any shutters on the 2nd floor.  Louvered shutters were often added to the 2nd floor as a later addition.

Around -, Butt hinges came into use but were not popular since they broke easily. Strap Hinges were the most popular.  Tie-backs were mounted on the sill.  Most styles were dependent on what the local blacksmith produced.

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Operable Louvered shutters began being manufactured -.

At the time of the American Civil War, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and steel suddenly became less expensive.  Acme Lull & Porter, Butt and “H” Style hinges were being produced and became popular, although Strap hinges were still available.  “L” shaped surface mounted hinges came about in the late 19th century.

From what I have seen in the New Jersey area, many Victorian and Colonial Revival house have Edge Mounted Acme Lull & Porter hinges with operable louvered shutters.  This is the same for pre-Civil War architecture, but in this case, probably, because their original strap hinges were replaced with the more contemporary and popular hinges of Victorian times.  Unfortunately, today, shutter manufacturers are selling Surface mounted hinges for every type of architecture.  Please be aware of this.

“S” style Shutter Dogs were mass produced in ’s.  They should be used only on houses built during or after this period only.

Early 20th century architecture such as Arts and Crafts and Bungalow were without shutters.

During – ’s, Colonial and Cottage style homes had mostly solid panel shutters with cut-out designs.  Louvered and the rustic Board & Batten shutters were also used occasionally.  If Bungalow and Four-Square homes had shutters, they were usually solid panel with cut-out designs or louvered.

This is a question I get quite often. Most of the photos I am sent by homeowners asking this question are of poorly designed newer homes. The design is lacking so homeowners look to installing shutters as a fix.

For shutters to look right on a house, decorative or not, they need to look like they can work. You already read that size and mounting is most important. To open or close a shutter you need to be able to easily and quickly open the window and reach out to grab the shutter to open or close it.

No problem with double-hung windows. However with American casement windows that open outwards this cannot be done. Casement windows so popular in Europe open inwards and that is why you see shutters on so many windows.

So basically the answer is that if your casement windows open outward you should not have shutters. On the other hand who is to know? What you really need to understand that shutters are the icing on a cake. They will not provide curb appeal to a house that does not currently have curb appeal.

Some of the pictures of casement windows I am sent are just awful. First all windows must have a 4 inch minimum window casing. If a brick house there needs to be a substantial brick mold surrounding the window. The actual window should be nice looking and not a giant window or people will laugh.

If you have a smashed up car, putting a fancy hood ornament will not make your smashed up car look good. You must first fix the problem before doing something new.

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