I’ve formally crossed off the primary mission from my 2025 record of house objectives. My workshop has shutters! First, let me remind you the way this workshop regarded proper after we had it constructed…
It was a really plain constructing with tons of potential. And naturally, my objective is to show this from a plain, drab little constructing into one thing that appears like a cute little cottage in our again yard. Step one in direction of that objective was so as to add shutters to the constructing.
I may have bought shutters from the corporate that constructed the workshop for me, however I didn’t just like the shutters that they provided. First, their shutters had been approach too skimpy for my liking — very slender shutters that didn’t match the proportions of the home windows. They might have regarded like this…
These would have regarded approach too tiny on my a lot bigger workshop. But additionally, I need my workshop to appear to be an extension of our home, and since I constructed the shutters on our home, I wanted to construct these to match. And since I constructed them myself, I may make them the right proportions for my home windows.
I didn’t take photos of the steps I took to make, set up, and decorate these shutters as a result of I’ve already lined all of these steps the primary time I made them for our home. However I did made these precisely like those for our home. They’re made out of PVC boards (which I buy at Lowe’s) in order that they’ll by no means rot. I painted them Benjamin Moore Gentleman’s Grey, which I had coloration matched at Sherwin Williams in order that I may use their components that’s protected for vinyl siding, which is critical because it’s such a darkish coloration, and darkish colours that aren’t vinyl protected can warp in solar and scorching climate. (To make it vinyl protected, they mainly take away any black from the components and substitute it with blue.) And for the ornamental touches, I used these T-strap hinges (I used the 8-inch on these shutters), these cast iron shutter dogs, and these cast iron ring pulls (all affiliate hyperlinks).
This was a four-day mission. It took me in the future to construct the shutters, in the future to color them, in the future to put in them, and in the future to place the ending touches (ornamental hinges, pulls, and shutter canines) on them. And right here’s how they turned out…
I like how they turned out! That is solely the primary mission I’ve deliberate for the outside of this constructing, and already it’s such an enormous distinction.
And right here’s a glance behind the constructing. I put shutters on all 4 home windows as a result of they’re all very seen. In actual fact, the again of the constructing is what I see probably the most because it’s seen from the road and from the driveway each time I pull into the carport. So the again of the constructing must look simply as cute because the entrance.
Whereas I didn’t take photos of the DIY course of this time, I did do movies of the entire course of. In order that video is coming for these of you preferring video tutorials over written tutorials. One among my most important objectives this yr is to deal with doing an entire lot of video tutorials for my tasks. However I’ll nonetheless have written tutorials with numerous photographs for brand new tasks as properly.
Right here’s a close-up view so you possibly can see the small print of the completed shutters. The entrance hinges are solely ornamental, as are the shutter canines. The shutters canines are actually glued onto the shutters, in order that they don’t truly flip. However I like how these little particulars actually elevate the look of shutters that may in any other case be fairly plain.
So mission #1 for the yr is marked off of the record!
And despite the fact that the climate has turned chilly on us, I’m decided to get a number of extra tasks carried out on this constructing earlier than I flip my consideration to the bed room suite. It could be chilly, however the solar remains to be shining (for now), so I plan to reap the benefits of that whereas it lasts.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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