Painted Shutters

We stumbled across this photo on morguefile yesterday. It made us wish there were more buildings with shutters in our neighborhood. On the right kind of house, painted shutters can add a lot of character...

We grew up in a home with blue painted shutters on the windows. There's something about them that feels simple and unpretentious. With the popularity of floor-to-ceiling windows and modern lofts, shutters seem to have fallen out of favor.

We're wondering if anyone out there has seen painted shutters on a more modern home?

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Shutters were originally used to keep driving rain from getting inside old leaky windows. Since (most of) the windows we see now are pretty weather-tight, there isn't much need for shutters on buildings, unless used for decoration. In your typical suburban McMansion the shutters are fake - they are applied to the wall beside the windows for decoration, but they don't actually swing shut in front of the window.

Capital "M" Modernism would dictate that building elements should only be used if they provide some function.

Like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10019837@N05/799453247/

or this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughgage/270349364/

or this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alternate/480462593/

posted by Frosta on November 2nd 2007 at 9:26am
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I hate fake shutters. The kind that really work are so attractive as well as the hardware that goes with them.

posted by Kurt on November 2nd 2007 at 11:09am
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The shutters are great- but the plastic chairs?!

posted by chartreuse on November 3rd 2007 at 6:36pm
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