If your house has shutters

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Do you have them around the entire house or only in the front?

We currently only have them on the front but when we get the house painted in the Spring I want to put them on all the windows. H thinks I’m being extra, but I think the back of our house is so plan, adding the shutters will dress things up.

[lilac05]

Only on the front. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any on the back of a home. ETA: But if you want them, it’s your house. Go for it!

[MrsDarcy]

Old house and this one, front only.

[dr.girlfriend]

Ha, I've lived in this house for 12 years and I honestly couldn't tell you? We are situated weird on the lot, though, we only have a six foot easement along the back of the house that has the neighbor's yard on the other side, so it's not like we hang out there. That said, I think that shutters are cheap so I would go for it.

[Beagle]

Front and sides. Any place that's visible from the street. I have no idea why.

[AdaraMarie]

Only on the front and only on the bigger windows on the front that are prominent (bedrooms). The little window near the ceiling of one room and the windows inder the little porch ceiling do not have them.

Kind of like this random picture I found on image search, not my house or city. www.compass.com/listing/29529-major-league-lake-elsinore-ca-92530/24932365231022929/

[pearls]

I wonder if maybe this is a bit regional. My first house was in the northeast and was an old farmhouse that had been added into. The prior owners added shutters to every window (front and back, first and second floor, including the dormer windows above and on the side of the garage) except one kitchen window that looked out under the roof of the back porch. If I remember correctly the house had 20-ish windows, and the garage 3, so it was a lot of shutters. I now live in the southeast and I think it's fine either way, but most houses I see here have them only on the front and sides.

[simpsongal]

Front and sides - I may add them to the back, though our window orientation in back may make that difficult.

[Wallflower]

I have them around the house - it was that way when I bought it. The only window that does not have shutters is one in my eat-in kitchen area, and that's because it's too close to the back door. (I assume - again, it was that way when I bought it.)

Now, my house is on a hill and you can see the back of it, through the trees, as you drive up the hill. So, you could argue that all sides of my house are visible, ergo, all sides would need shutters.

And funny thing, my house has vinyl siding, including the shutters, but the previous owners painted the shutters somewhere along the line and I had to have them repainted when they started peeling. That, or I would have had to replace them.

[Wallflower]

Also, I'm OCD enough that the one window without shutters bugs me. I'm am totally on board with you doing all of your windows, @sameoldstory!

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Thanks all. This is a picture of the back of my house. It’s from when we first moved in, but honestly it doesn’t look much different now. We’re painting the siding in the early Spring and putting in a deck where the patio is now early Summer. Otherwise, it’s just very plain back there. I think the shutters will help give it some life. Hopefully.

[penguingrrl]

Ours are only on the front. I’m thinking about removing them, though. They aren’t properly sized for the windows that they would theoretically cover so they clearly aren’t and never were functional and I don’t like how they look since they don’t look like they’re functional.

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Jan 3, 2021 19:36:20 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Ours are only on the front. I’m thinking about removing them, though. They aren’t properly sized for the windows that they would theoretically cover so they clearly aren’t and never were functional and I don’t like how they look since they don’t look like they’re functional.

This is actually one of my biggest pet peeves. If you are going to have shutters, they should at least be sized correctly and look like they could be functional. Or when someone puts shutters next to a window that they could never theoretically cover, like a bay window.

[maudefindlay]

Seeing the picture I would not do shutters. Things are not symmetrical and I think would look busy, heavy, and out of proportion. I get wanting to break things up though. Could you do an awning over the new deck? Some window boxes in a color that contrasts the new paint color? Paint the back door and window trim a contrasting color.

[Susie]

Front only. In our neighborhood I only see it all the way around on houses that sit on corner lots, so the back/side are visible from the street.

[lessel]

Front only. On our house you can see a window above the garage on the side and another one on the other side of our house on the basement from the street. Those don’t have shutters though. We have a brick colonial so 10 sets of shutters on the front is plenty. They’re freaking expensive. We just replaced rotting wood shutters and replacing with wood shutters was ridiculous $$$. Like hundreds per pair. We went with vinyl and they’re fine, but even they were $65-75/pair.

[aprilsails]

I’ve never had them on the back of a house. Looking at yours I wouldn’t bother either. I think the suggestion to add window boxes along the lower windows would be great. There is someone locally who has them on their side windows and puts really nice fake flower arrangements in them through the fall and winter too. They really brighten up the house.