Who do you all like for sources for wood shutters and shutter hardware? (With a particular interest to sources in the northeast)
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Jerrald -
Just bumping this thread. I'm interested, too. I pulled my "Shutter/Hardware" folder, and see most of my brochures and catalogs are from the mid-90s.
I did some on-line research more recently, and found some promising sources. But all were prohibitively expensive for my own home restoration (custom shutters). My plan is to make my own, but 10 years later, I have yet to start that project!
I bought some mortise-type "acme" hinges from Van Dyke's Restorers. They were about the least expensive I could find, but the quality of the castings/finishing is not great, and they need to be painted.
Allen
Still able to find plenty of variety in the salvage yards of both shutters and the hardware.
be essex green on plaintive white
Edited 8/2/2006 12:21 pm ET by rez
I've checked most of the local salvage yards for shutters, and might go that route for the north wing of my house.
For the rest of the house, though, I really want to match exactly what was there originally. Especially since there are two sets of the originals that are still in place (non-working shutters, just for symmetry ... no window behind them). I found a small section of one of the original operable shutters, so I have enough info to have reproductions made.
Actually, I hope to make them myself. Just need some time.
I'm happy enough with the new hardware I've found. The mortise size is exactly the same dimensions as the originals.
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Allen
I got a bunch of roaming pics I've taken that I'll post when I get back to a decent access for posting.Caught a shot of a pair of small roundtop upstairs windows that still had functioning shutters. I could see that one shutter was open and the other next to it was shut, so after I drove a minute or so thinking about it I had to turn around and go back to take the shot.
be strange things them compulsive folk can do for the sake of a shot
Incredible piece of Greek Rev architecture you bought.
Thanks. Wish I had gotten it before the folks I bought it from. Would've saved me a lot of re-doing their un-doing, and un-doing their re-doing. But it was largely intact, and that's what I was looking for.
Here's a more recent photo. It surely needs shutters, though. Green shutters.
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Allen
Allen
I seen Norm build some one Sat. morning on the tube, considering that your not as fast as he is it might take you two weekend mornings!
Green shutters would cap off that place real nice, but they gotta be real.
Doug
Edited 8/3/2006 8:34 am ET by DougU
Yes, prohibitively expensive.
You might try, http://www.hoffmeyersmill.on.ca , in Sebringville Ontario.