They can provide privacy or help to darken a room for sleep. They keep rain, hail, sleet and snow off your windows, and extend their life. The provide relief from the hot summer sun and cold winter winds. They protect against storms or other inclement weather. Shutters were designed to cover your window for a multitude of reasons. If your shutters don’t shut, they are fake. If your shutters don’t operate, you won’t realize just how bad they really are. Why do they exist? I guess because real shutters look so great that a lot of other people wanted to jump on the shutter band wagon but couldn’t afford real shutters. Be frightened! Why Fake Shutters? “Real” Shutters It will be like when the lights come on at the bar at closing time and you realize exactly what that person you’ve been dancing with all night really looks like. Beware that once you read this post, you will likely be cursed like me in noticing the world of fake shutters on buildings everywhere.
#Fake windows on top of house windows
My hope is that more people will see the mistake that fake shutters are and it will prevent even just one more house from giving its windows a black eye and making me that much crazier.
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The purpose of this post isn’t just to vent (though it will be therapeutic for me!), but rather to explain why something as insignificant as a fake shutter flies in the face of almost every rule of design. They give me a little bit of rage that no other architectural element does (I’ve written about the other design flaws that drive me nuts here). If you follow my instagram page you’ll see a healthy spattering of shutter fails.
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It’s true that I have a problem with fake shutters.