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Project case study, Newnan
Formal dining shutters, Newnan historic home
Historic Greenville Street, Newnan. Plantation Shutters in basswood. From measure to install in 6 weeks, 1 day on site.
6 weeks lead time
1 day on site
Basswood
Lifetime install warranty
The project
Historic Greenville Street, Newnan.
A Historic Greenville Street home built in 1908, with original double-hung windows that have drifted slightly out of square over the century. The homeowners wanted shutters that respected the home's historic register status, which meant ivory rather than bright white and a louver size that matched the building era. We custom-templated every opening, specified basswood with 3.5 inch louvers, and matched the existing trim's ivory.
What we installed
Three details that made the install.
Custom-templated basswood panels
Every opening templated on site to its actual dimensions, accounting for the 1908 framing's accumulated drift.
3.5 inch louvers
Period-appropriate; 4.5 inch would read as overscaled on a 1908 dining room window.
Ivory finish
Color-matched to the existing trim with a sample swatch; the homeowner's historic register filing required the existing tone be preserved.
The decision behind it
Nothing in a 1908 house is square, and that is fine.
Every opening in this dining room sits slightly out of true after a century of settling. A catalog order would have left a tapering gap down one stile of each window. We templated the openings one at a time and built the panels to the shape that is actually there, which is the only way a shutter sits flush in an old house.
Ivory instead of bright white was a historic decision rather than a matter of taste: bright white did not exist on this street in 1908 and it reads wrong beside original trim. The 3.5 inch louver matches the proportion of the era, and basswood carries the lifetime warranty against warp and twist. See our plantation shutters page for the finish range, or Newnan for the rest of our work in town.
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