Premium High Quality Cherry Louvered Cherry Shutters

Cherry Wood Shutters

Cherry wood is a domestic harvest with unique, beautiful physical properties. This wood hails from the Rust Belt region of the United States. Estate Millwork ensures that only sustainable-harvest cherry wood is used in our shutter sets.

Environmentalism is one of our shutter company's major commitments. We believe in Earth-friendly cherry wood harvesting, and strive to maintain green working conditions at our shutter manufacturing plant, too. We don't believe in wood waste, either. All cherry wood scraps are used in other projects, such as doors and cabinetry, or are burned to heat the plant during colder weather.

Estate Millwork's other promise is a commitment to real wood shutters. Competitors use particle board filler or artificial compounds; these techniques result in shoddy shutter craftsmanship. Our exterior shutter sets are made of genuine cherry wood with time-tested mortise-and-tenon joinery. Our wooden shutters outlast our competitors.

Cherry Wood is a Hardy Material with a Distinctive Look

Luminous finish: If unstained, our cherry exterior shutters will arrive as beautiful strawberry-blonde pieces. When exposed to outdoor air, the wood turns a rich shade of scarlet that highlights the deep, strong wood grain. Natural, weathered cherry wood is exquisitely handsome, with a pleasing, smooth texture.

Trusty durability: Cherry is a medium-density hardwood with a fine texture. It is a strong, decay-resistant wood that is fairly easy to work with. Its strength makes cherry wood a natural choice for custom wooden shutter sets. Whether stained or left natural, cherry wood shutters will give your house long-lasting panache.

Estate Millwork Cherry Wooden Shutters Come in Several Styles, Including:

• Louvered Cherry Shutter Sets:

  Air conditioning can be expensive if it's run all day and all night. Consider fitting your home with our louvered cherry wooden shutters, and you.ll invest in eco-friendly climate control. The distinctive wooden slats of the louvered style allow you to control air and heat flow to your home.

• Board and Batten Cherry Exterior Shutters:

  Whether you.re a fan of frontier-style architecture, or just admire rugged durability, board and batten cherry shutters might be the style for you. Like our other shutter types, these prairie-style pieces can be customized however you.d like. Share your ideas with us!

Our exterior shutter sets are made using 100 percent genuine cherry wood, with no artificial compounds or fillers.

• Raised Panel Cherry Exterior Shutters:

  This style is a timeless classic. Raised rectangular center panels are set inside a sturdy cherry frame. Cherry wood's gorgeous straight grain is properly shown off by this shutter style. Some customers opt for custom detailing or carving to make their raised panel shutter sets truly one-of-a-kind.

• Flat Panel Cherry Shutters:

  These shutter sets feature recessed panels centered in their frames. Like raised panel sets, flat panel cherry shutters can be customized to suit your fancy. We accept sketches and ideas from our customers; our shutter experts can help make your ideas come to life.

• Bermuda Cherry Wood Shutters:

  Bermuda shutters are a top-hinged shutter style. Also known as Bahama shutters, this shutter choice lends a distinctive look to your home. States like Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have experienced rough hurricanes in recent years. Therefore, the storm-protective properties of Bermuda cherry wooden shutters make them good picks for homes in hurricane belts.

Durable, beautiful cherry shutters last for years, and are true visual treats. Browse the Estate Millwork website and learn more about our expert shutter craftsmanship.

Solid Wood Mortise and Tenons

True Tenons

Our premium quality shutters are carefully constructed using a time consuming and precise operation. Whereas other lower quality shutters are made using screws, nails, dowels or biscuit joints, each of our exterior wooden shutters has a minimum of 4 hardwood tenons. The end of each rail is painstakingly machined to have a 1/2" X 1 7/8" tenon by a custom built tenoning machine that Estate Millwork developed so that we could continue to provide the best quality joinery in the industry, at an attractive price. We gave up the cost, but not the quality.

Deep Pocket Mortises

Each stile is precision machined with a minimum of two deep pocket mortises, and these mortises perfectly fit the associated tenon. Again, Estate Millwork has used precision automation to preserve the quality of our products, while reducing the cost. We have software that connects our website directly to the machines in the plant, and when a customer places an order with us, all of the precision programs for machining the mortises into the stiles are sent to the plant for automatic execution. The mortise tenon joint, is the strongest joint in millwork, and adds tremendous strength, even without the use of glue.

Hardwood Dowels

Once the tenon and mortise have been machined, the parts are put together and a hole is drilled through the mortise and the tenon. A slightly oversized hardwood dowel is driven into the hole, locking the tenon into the mortise for the life of the shutter. Even though glue is not required, Estate Millwork takes the added step of gluing the tenon into the mortise, and gluing the hardwood dowel into the stile.

Hand Assembly

In our commitment to preserving the best of quality millwork traditions in each wood shutter, we have automated much of the drudgery of some of the operations, but assembling a shutter is still something very much in the realm of craftsmanship. After all the parts of each wooden shutter are manufactured, one of our skilled craftsmen fits them together in a specialized jig for dry fitting and final assembly. We do not use pneumatic or hydraulic clamps as they can damage or over-stress the wood. The craftsman uses his innate feel for the materials to set the appropriate clamping pressure prior to drilling and doweling. Each wooden shutter receives the individual attention of craftsmen all along the way, but the final assembly is where the shutter comes together the first time, ready for years of service on your home.

Precision Crafted Louvered Shutters Using State of the Art CNC Machinery

Solid Louvers

Each louver in our louvered shutters is precision machined in a 5 head moulder that can be configured to mould any of our 3 standard production profiles, or custom profiles as specified by the customer. We offer 1/2" X 2 1/4", 3/8" X 1 3/4", and 1/4" X 1 1/4" bullnose profiles, but also have tooling for chevron, beveled, and other louver profiles. Whether the louvered shutter is to use fixed louver or operable louvers, we can even create custom tooling to match existing millwork, or to provide the ultimate in personalization and detailing.

True Louvered Shutter Mortises and Louver Mortises

Each louver in a fixed louvered shutter is seated in a 7/16" deep mortise in the shutter stile. Our CNC machining equipment be instantly programmed to program any variation of louver size, profile, pitch, and spacing, that gives us unlimited flexibility to match historic millwork, or to create custom louvered shutters to a precise specification in terms of louver count, rail placement, and air flow. In the same pass as the louver mortises are being created, our equipment also creates the larger mortises for each rail in the shutter. Unlike many custom shutter manufacturers today, Estate Millwork does not use cheap dowels, veneers, screws, or biscuits. Instead we use old fashioned mortise and tenon joints, even though they are considered by other custom shutter manufacturers as too expensive. Because we have invested heavily in automation, our cost to produce highly custom louvered shutters using solid materials and premium joinery is much lower than other manufacturers, hence: higher quality, lower price.

Solid Tenons

The tenons on both ends of each rail are engineered to give maximum stability to the louvered shutter frame, and when combined with our hardwood dowling, the shutter frame will stay together and be extremely stable, even without glue. But of course we use glue for added strength. For larger louvered shutters, we use a 10 inch baserail that has two tenons and a third feather tenon for additional strength that connects the two main tenons. These tenons are precision machined on a propriety tenon machine that Estate Millwork designed and custom built. Our sophisticated mortise and tenon joinery preserves 100% of the quality of traditional mortise and tenon joinery at a fraction of the cost.

Shutter Options

Thickness, Width, Height

The "slab dimensions" are the size of the actual exterior shutter from top to bottom, left to right, and the thickness. Our default standard thickness is 1 5/16", but that can be varied from 7/8" to 2 1/4" to match existing exterior shutters. The length and height can be specified to the nearest 1/16" inch. Depending upon the style of the shutter, we have made widths up to 20 feet wide, and heights up 30 feet.

Shutter Frame Dimensions

Because all of our exterior wooden shutters are custom built from true rail and stile construction, we have the ability to replicate any component dimension on existing shutters, including rail height, placement, width, thickness, and stile width and thickness. Typically, the bottom rail of our custom shutters is 4. high, and all other rails are 2 1/2" inches. Stile widths are usually 2 1/2" but we have the ability to make them of virtually any width, including different widths for left and right stiles -- sometimes used for pairs of shutters.

Custom Sticking

Out standard products are S4S, or square shoulder sticking, but we have the capability to mould any feasible profile to the inner or outer frame fields. Common choices are ogee, cove and bead, bevel, cove etc. In addition to our stock sticking profiles, we can also custom grind tooling to achieve any desired profile to either match historical wood shutters, or to meet an architects or home owner.s specifications and preferences.

Shiplapping and Beading

For operable shutters, or for decoration, our wood shutters can be machined with a bead on one face of the inside edge of the shutter, and with a ship lap on the other, allowing the shutters to overlap by 3/8" when they are in the closed position - permitting a tighter fit. The left and right shutters are machined as pairs so that in the closed position, each face of the pair has a decorative bead visible.

Panel Profiles

Our raised panel shutters can be raised with our standard scoop profile, but we offer bevels, coves, ogeees and other profiles as well. Additionally, for the extremely discriminating home owner or architect we can create new tooling to match existing historical panel profiles, or to meet with a unique custom requirement.

Louver Styles

Our louvered shutters can be fitted with either our standard bullnose louvers in 3 sizes, or with a chevron or bevel profile as options. And because we are a custom shutter maker, we can also accommodate any special profiles that are specified by the customer.

Cut Outs

Raised Panel and Flat Panel Shutters can have a limitless variety of decorative cut outs machined into the center of the panels. Common shapes are moons, anchors, trees, hearts and we have a large number of stock cut outs which we offer, as well as the ability to match custom patterns that are provided by the customer

Finishes

Estate Millwork can ship our custom wooden shutters in natural, primed, painted or stained finishes. We can match national brand color numbers, pre-tint primers for light or dark finishes, and apply hand rubbed stain finished, even to the time consuming louvered shutters.

Cherry: A Luxurious Hardwood with Timeless Beauty

Hailing from the pristine Appalachian region of the United States, Cherry wood stands as a quintessential domestic hardwood renowned for its exquisite beauty and exceptional working properties. Characterized by its luscious, rich color and fine, uniform texture, Cherry wood boasts a striking reddish-brown hue, occasionally punctuated by charming gum spots. The heartwood of Cherry is notably robust, exhibiting commendable resistance to decay, making it a favored choice for a myriad of interior applications including doors, windows, moldings, and, particularly, furniture.

While Cherry's initial appearance may surprise some, with rough sawn lumber presenting a lighter pink hue, its true beauty unfolds over time. Through exposure to UV rays and natural oxidation, Cherry wood matures into a sumptuous brownish-red, epitomizing its inherent allure. Some enthusiasts hasten this transformative process by subjecting their Cherry lumber to sunlight, while others opt for dyes or stains to achieve desired hues. This "breaking in" period is crucial to consider, especially in restoration endeavors aiming to match existing trim or furniture.

Cherry hardwood remains a timeless and opulent choice for woodworking and interior design ventures, cherished for its unparalleled beauty and versatility. Our meticulously sourced Cherry hardwood is expertly crafted to uphold uncompromising quality standards. Infused with rich, reddish-brown tones and distinctive grain patterns, Cherry wood exudes a warmth and sophistication that transcends trends. Whether crafting bespoke cabinetry, refined furniture pieces, or resplendent flooring, Cherry hardwood imparts a touch of elegance that endures through generations. Not merely a feast for the eyes, Cherry hardwood is celebrated for its enduring strength and durability, ensuring a legacy of enduring beauty for years to come.

Handcrafted with Sustainably Harvested Lumber

At Estate Millwork, we employ a meticulous process to ensure the quality and sustainability of our lumber. Our commitment begins with the careful air drying of much of our lumber, followed by further refinement in low wattage dehumidification kilns to achieve optimal moisture levels.

Every single piece of wood we acquire undergoes thorough utilization in our production processes. Leveraging advanced automated saws and optimization software, we achieve an exceptional yield ratio of 94 percent. This means that nearly all of the wood we purchase is transformed into usable products. The small remainder, comprising mainly sawdust and chips, is utilized efficiently: either utilized as fuel to power our operations, or repurposed by providing bedding and contributing to composting for local cattle farmers.

Our dedication to minimizing waste extends to the sourcing of our materials. A significant portion of the lumber we use hails from Amish farmers within our county. These farmers adhere to traditional practices, utilizing horses for harvesting and operating vintage 1920s sawmills. Such methods not only contribute to the preservation of heritage techniques but also entail lower environmental impact compared to modern industrial approaches.

Furthermore, our commitment to sustainability is evident in the sourcing of our imported lumber. We exclusively procure lumber from plantation-grown sources, thereby ensuring that our operations do not contribute to deforestation or the depletion of natural forests. By prioritizing responsible sourcing and efficient utilization, Estate Millwork strives to uphold environmental stewardship while delivering exceptional craftsmanship.

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