Estate Millwork Knowledge Base
Wood Shutters and Doors Made from Premium Materials
Published: May 19, 2020
Estate Millwork uses the highest grades of premium hardwoods to manufacture our louvered doors and wooden shutters . We buy selectively from quality vendors and import premium exotic woods from all of the world including Africa, Asia and South America. Our domestic hardwoods are often grown in the forests that surround our plant in the Allegheny mountains of Pennsylvania, and we have long standing relationships with the premier timbering outfits in this part of the country that give us preferred access to their best stocks of material. Many of the employees in our plant started o...
Finish Them! Practical Tips for Finishing Your Doors and Shutters
Published: May 15, 2020
At the end of your woodworking project you will be dealing with the issue of how to protect and preserve the woodwork you've spent all this time on. This is no small matter. Now that you have invested time and money into your project, you quite naturally want it to last a long time and look good doing it. This final phase of a woodworking project, and the stuff you put on your woodwork, is called finishing. Now before we go too far, we should clarify the difference between painting and finishing. They are not the same. This might seem obvious, but it should be said. For doors and s...
Thoughts on Painting Wooden Shutters and Being Sneaky
Published: May 12, 2020
There are probably as many different ideas on how to paint anything made out of wood as there are people with stuff to paint. A lot of the basic, good advice that applies to painting a wooden door also applies to painting a wooden shutter . Things like preparation, ventilation, wearing a painters mask, cleaning, priming, getting good paint, and applying multiple coats of paint. All that is relevant and applies to painting shutters too. However, there are a few unique factors that apply to wooden shutters that do not quite apply to other parts of your house. Before I go on, this i...
Measure for Measure, Shutters
Published: May 08, 2020
Like a lot of things, getting the proper measurements for your window shutters is not difficult, but it should be done with a little care. An oversized or undersized shutter might not look right, and it would be a shame to go through the process of getting quality shutters and then find they do not even fit your window. So please don't neglect this step! A good rule of thumb is to measure for each and every window where you want your shutters. Do not assume that once you have measured one of your windows you are done! We would all like to think that everything is "standardized", and that ...
How Do Operable Louvers Work?
Published: May 05, 2020
Operable Louvers began to appear in doors and shutters in the middle of the 19th century. They would have been an important part of how a family regulated air flow for their home and controlled how much sunlight shone inside too. Louvers were not for show! They had an important job to do. If you opt to purchase operable louvers for your door or shutter, then you are buying a little piece of working history, and you'll want to know just how they work. A person could justifiably say that is patently obvious how working louvers do their thing. Traditionally, there is a rod mounted at the ...