by Shana Quincey
Whether you are building a new home, or looking to add some flair to an existing one, odds are you may be looking for some form of designer window treatments that can give your home the unique style you have been looking for. A unique choice for both your interior and exterior design needs would be wood window shutters. Available in a variety of different styles and sizes, there is at least one form that can suit your needs. Here are some of the most popular styles of wood window shutters so you can choose the one that best suits your home decorating needs.
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals—and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am not sure would ever feel this way—some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
First is the louver wood window shutters. This shutter design actually comes in two different forms. Those that are designed for the exterior of your home come equipped with fixed louvers, while some forms of the designer interior louver shutters come equipped with a slide that allows the user to adjust the position of the louvers. They may either come in real or faux wood, offering the owner a variety of different design options. Exterior shutters are commonly stationary, while interior ones can either be fixed, or have the option to open and close to allow the sunlight in.
Second is the board and batten wood window shutters design. This style is primarily used as a form of outdoor window treatments. If you have grown tired of the standard style of wood window shutter, the board and batten style may just be what you are looking for. Available in real or faux wood, this style can give your home a unique style that will make it stand out from the rest. A variety of different types of the board and batten style also exist, so you need not worry that you will end up with the exact same style as your neighbor down the street.
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behoves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c’est l’homme, what is likely to happen if l’homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?
—Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
Lastly is the mahogany wood window shutters. If you feel that the faux wood shutter design is not fitting with the style of your home, you could always consider the mahogany wood shutters. This style of shutter is available in a variety of different designs, with the louver and even the board and batten style being just a few. You also have the option of choosing a raised panel, flat panel, combination or Bermuda shutters. Regardless of the style that you choose, at least one of these options is sure to give your home the unique style that you are looking for. The only disadvantage is that they may require much more maintenance than their faux wood counterparts do. If you want a home that is truly maintenance free, then this may not be the style for you.
These are just a few of the most popular wood window shutters designs. With the choice of louver, board and batten or even mahogany shutters, you are sure to find at least one of the many window treatments designs that can give your home the unique style you have always been dreaming of.