Wood Shutter Restoration
Replication & Restoration of Historic Wood Window Shutters.
Today, window shutters are rarely closed and their only function is decorative. On historic buildings, however, the original function was to maintain the security of the building at night while allowing ventilation of the living space. In any time or season, they could be used to dampen the effects of weather, sun or outside noise. In the absence of screens or storm windows, they were an integral, functioning part of the window system and might be closed and opened on a daily basis. Historic wood shutters, in other words, were built to be used and the construction techniques employed reflect that.
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Wood Shutter Restoration, Federal Period
Providence, Rhode Island
Wood Window Shutter Restoration, Early Nineteenth Century
The wood window shutters shown here are built to period standards of function and utility for these useful but obsolete elements of window technology.
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