The turquoise shutters will be the first thing to go when the owner restores this 100-year-old Florida home. But, what should he put up in their place?
Shutters-a hinged cover or screen for a window, usually fitted with louvers.
Double Hung-a window having top and bottom sashes, each capable of movement up and down.
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shutters
Window or door screens featuring horizontal slats that may be articulated, allowing control over air and light transmission. They are usually made of wood.
SHUTTERsolid or slatted window cover located on building interior or exterior
SIDELIGHT a window beside the door, forming part of the door unit
String Course see Belt Course ...
The shutters are shaped to fit the lancet windows and may have been closed during storms to protect the multi-paned windows. These wide lancets were introduced during the Regency period.
Sliding shutters within an mural cavity.
Note the slimness of the astragals on the front elevation (Detail) in contrast to those on the rear of the building (Detail).
- see Sea Captain's House - Case Study.
External shutters (on wood houses) with iron shutter dogs
Internal shutters (on brick houses)
Palladian windows ...
They are typically defined by being of one story with very low pitched roofs and moderate to wide overhangs, rectangular in shape with or without offsets, small porches, and basic detailing to include window shutters.
Wall form - One of two shutters held together with form ties, as formwork for a concrete wall.
Wall hanger - A joist hanger partly built into a wall ...
Each grille consists of two parts, opening shutters recessed within a horseshoe arch on the top and the wooden grille below made of intersecting wooden strips (cf. mashrabiyya).
Shutter Dogs - Small metal structures used to hold the shutters against the wall.
Siding - The finished covering on the outside of non masonry walls of houses and buildings. Shingles, wood siding, aluminum siding, vinyl siding, stucco, etc.
Most French Provincial houses have these features:
French windows or shutters
high, steep hipped or gable roof
balanced appearance windows
second-story windows break through the cornice
expensive materials used: copper, slate, brick ...
shutter dogs The metal attachments which hold shutters in an open position against the face of a building.
sidelight A vertically framed area of fixed glass, often subdivided into panes, flanking a door.
Double-hung windows sometimes with shutters
Palladian window
Symmetrically placed windows, often in adjacent pairs or triple windows treated as a single unit ...
Tsuchido: The plastered window shutters which were used to cover the loop holes of a Japanese castle, which provided protection to the defenders within from incoming fire, the plastering reduced the risk of fire.
Two story rectilinear volume
Low pitched gable roofs covered with shingles or tiles
Projecting cantilevered second floor balconies with wood railings
Colonial double-hung windows; louvered shutters
Plaster walls
Picket fences around gardens ...
borrowed Colonial ideas to create refined Colonial Revival homes with elegant central hallways and elaborate cornices. Unlike the original Colonials, Colonial Revival homes are often sided in white clapboard and trimmed with black or green shutters.
Typically, end walls were made of stone and a chimney was located on one or both ends. Common were double-hung sash windows with outward swinging wood shutters and a central entrance door divided into separately opening upper and lower halves.
 See also: Shutter, House, Brick, Floor, Architecture
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