East Hampton, N.Y.
I LOVE SHUTTERS — louvered, paneled, pickets, cut-outs — though I’ve never really lived in a house that has them. My present cottage in Springs, N.Y., is not gonna be the one. Shutters don’t make sense with 1980s Anderson casement windows (but those windows sure are tight, so I’m not complaining).
East Hampton again - love the boxwoods, too
Meanwhile, I look at shutters everywhere I go. They can really make a house, adding color and definition to an otherwise blah facade. If they’re operable, so much the better.
Philadelphia is a great shutter city. Brooklyn and Manhattan row houses, for some reason, rarely have shutters, which makes the few houses that do stand out all the more.
For more pictures of shutters in Brooklyn, Philly, and the Hudson Valley…
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Heights
Society Hill, Philadelphia
Kensington, Philadelphia
Red Hook, N.Y. (northern Dutchess)
Kinderhook, N.Y. (Columbia County)
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November 2, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Terry Kearns
They are sweet. No stick-on shutters please. Even if you don’t use real hinges, they need to be away from the wall – as if they do – to produce important shadows. Much better are slight askew in a few place. It’s like real verses fake plants.
The Brooklyn Heights with the red door has stick-ons.
November 2, 2009 at 5:21 pm
cara
You’re so right about the stick-ons, Terry. But I’ll give that house a pass because, as I said, there’s such a dearth of shutters in Brooklyn even those are kind of welcome.