Wooden Shutters

Wooden Shutter Quality Craftsmanship

All of Estate Millwork's wooden shutters are built with top grades of hardwoods. We actively manage our production in an environmentally conscious way, and offer a wide range of styles to meet different architectural traditions. Because we use true mortise and tenon joinery, all of our wooden shutters are durable, and historically accurate. Our raised and flat panel wooden shutters are built with exact spline tongue joints, and our board and batten style wooden shutters are built with tongue and groove boards, and coved battens.

Because of the elegance of true wooden shutters, they do much more than synthetic or composite counterparts to enhance the curb appeal of distinctive homes. Our wooden shutters are can be configured as operational, or decorative wooden shutters, and if properly maintained will outlast the windows they protect. Many of the historic and distinctive homes in America adorn Estate Millwork's premium grade wooden shutters, both in interior and exterior configurations. Use our catalog as a starting point for design ideas, and use our simple web based designers to quickly design and price all of our wooden products.

Wooden Shutter Construction Details

Our wooden shutters begin with the hand selected of rough stock wood. Only the top grades of hardwood are used (FAS, 2FAS and CLEAR) and each board is hand selected. Unlike the competition, our use of the highest quality hardwoods. Other manufactures who use softwood such as Pine, Incense Cedar, or Western Red Cedar. By hand selecting each board we use in your wooden shutters, we reduce waste, maximize the quality of construction and provide homes in any climate with top quality, durable, wooden shutters that will outlast other shutters, whether they be lower quality wooden shutters or vinyl shutters. We offer many high quality / high durability exotic hardwoods such as Ipe, Mahogany, and Teak.

Our custom wooden shutters are hand made from high quality, whole cut woods

Our wooden shutters are all custom crafted to meet the required size and style specifications for your home or commercial space. We use 18th century wooden shutter joinery methods modernized, automated mill. Our solid cut wooden shutters can be designed custom with operable louvers or fixed louvers in nearly any configuration using many high quality wood stock including cedar, poplar, cherry, mahogany, maple, oak, and teak. Our synthesis of old-world craftsmanship and modern automation allow us to produce wooden shutters that surpass the quality of our competitors while still offering competitive pricing.

Advantages of Our Wooden Shutters

Whole cut from single, solid pieces of wood, our solid wooden shutters provide a superior level of quality and durability. Be aware that many of our competitors fabricate their wooden shutters from a combination of multiple pieces of low grade and high grade wood, causing them to be less durable and less energy efficient. High quality woods are used on the exterior of the shutters but they are actually filled with low quality stock woods. This gives their wooden shutters the appearance of being high quality full cut shutters. However, the inferior materials cause the shutters to be less durable and less energy efficient. In addition to the high level of quality materials that you have to choose from, our superior level of customization ensures a superior quality wooden shutter that matches your needs and fits your commercial space or home perfectly.

Energy Efficient Wooden Shutters - Whole cut solid wood is used in the fabrication of our exterior and interior wooden shutters.. This will protect you from cracks, low quality joins, thin, porous filler wood being used for insulation, or other lower quality milling processes that can cause wooden shutters to seep warm air in the winter or cool air in the summer. Additionally, our custom wooden shutters design process ensures that our shutters fit your windows seamlessly and will protect your home or office heating and cooling bills with the most energy efficient wooden shutters on the market today.

Superior Durability - Ultra high quality, FAS premium grade hard woods are hand selected for the milling of both our interior wooden shutters and exterior wooden shutters. Choose from poplar wood, mahogany wood, teak wood, cherry wood, maple wood, cedar wood, and oak wood. Different wood types exhibit varying tolerances to different climates and environments. If you need guidance or advice in choosing hardwoods that compliment your location best, please feel free to call our wooden shutter customization experts at 1.866.322.0040 for assistance.

Fully Customizable Shutters- Receive exactly the shutters that compliment your home or business best with 1) our web based custom wooden shutter design tools, 2) via phone while working with the our custom wooden shutter experts, 3) or on your own from sketches or examples. You have the freedom to choose your wooden shutter type, style, size, finish, hardware and more. We even make fully custom interior and exterior wooden shutters from your hand drawn or rendered sketches! Our successful combination of automation and old world techniques ensure that you receive the elegant look that matches your interior or exterior decor perfectly.