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Plantation shutters, Atlanta two-story great room
Druid Hills, Atlanta. Plantation Shutters in basswood. From measure to install in 6 weeks, 2 days on site.
6 weeks lead time
2 days on site
Basswood
Lifetime install warranty
The project
Druid Hills, Atlanta.
A Druid Hills Tudor great room with nine windows on a south-facing two-story wall. The previous owner had run a patchwork of mini-blinds and pinch-pleat drapes that did not match between the upper and lower openings. We replaced the lot with basswood plantation shutters in 4.5 inch louvers across all nine openings. The hidden tilt rod across the entire wall reads as a single horizontal line of louver tips, which matters on a two-story wall where any unevenness telegraphs.
What we installed
Three details that made the install.
Nine basswood shutter panels
Templated to each opening's actual dimensions, accounting for the slight non-square typical of 1920s Tudor framing.
4.5 inch louvers, hidden tilt rod
The wider louver suits the room's scale; the hidden tilt rod keeps the long sightline uninterrupted across the two-story wall.
Ivory stain, satin finish
Matched to the existing white trim; the satin finish hides the morning dust the south-facing wall collects.
The decision behind it
Nine openings, one horizontal line.
The hard part of a two-story wall is not the panels, it is getting the louver tips to line up across all nine of them when the openings were framed by hand in the 1920s. We shimmed every frame on its own so the tilt rods sit on one level, and that is the detail your eye reads first when you walk in from the hall.
The 4.5 inch louver was a question of scale. On a wall this tall a narrow louver turns into visual noise and the room loses the Tudor proportion it was built with. Ivory rather than bright white keeps the panels from fighting the old plaster. Basswood earns the lifetime warranty against warp and twist, which counts on a south-facing wall. The louver and finish range is on our plantation shutters page, and this is everyday work for us across Atlanta.
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