Exterior Shutters: Add Style and Beauty From The Outside

Homes today are often featured with exterior shutters or outdoor shutters mounted directly to the home for ornamentation purposes only. While this is an improvement from the lack of shutters, many home owners are starting to recognize the aesthetic value of exterior shutters that give the appearance of an operable exterior shutter. This has lead to the increased use of exterior shutter hardware such as faux outdoor shutters brackets, "L" shaped hinges, pintels, slide bolts and shutter dogs.

When making your exterior shutter choices the main considerations should be functionality, style, maintenance, cost and authenticity. If you are looking for the lowest cost, easy installation and completely maintenance free outdoor shutters I recommend installing the high quality line of vinyl exterior shutter hardware made by Mid-America. These vinyl exterior shutter hardware are inexpensive, lightweight, pre-finished, maintenance free and come with a 40 year warranty. 

Outdoor Shutter Hardware

Originally exterior shutters were designed to protect the home from wind and weather. Before the advent of glass exterior shutters, which were operated from the interior would keep out unwanted heat, pests, wind, rain snow or intruders. Often times homes would use raised panel exterior shutters or board and batten exterior shutters on the lower level windows for security and louvered exterior shutters for air circulation near the bedrooms on the upper windows. Recently, shutters have become more of a necessity in hurricane prone areas such as the south were new building codes are requiring either high impact rated safety glass or operable hurricane rated storm shutters.

Exterior shutters come in many materials, styles and colors. The best place to search the best selection of exterior shutters is the internet. There are various companies that offers everything from Vinyl Board and Batten Exterior Shutters to Louvered Composite Cellular PVC Exterior Shutters. Because there is such a wide verity of shutter manufacturers it is very challenging for the average home owner to make the best decision based on the literature and pictures available on various websites and that is why home owners need a company who have done all the preliminary work to bring you the very best selection of exterior shutters.