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 on Long Island is not gonna be the one. Shutters don’t make sense with 1980s 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.
A Colonial in Society Hill, Philadelphia
An early 19th c. commercial building in the Kensington area of Philly
Brooklyn and Manhattan row houses, for some reason, rarely have shutters, which makes the few houses that do stand out all the more.
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, above and below
Red Hook, Dutchess County, N.Y.
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