Tip If your shutters do not appear large enough to cover an entire window, should they close, rethink them, pros say. Otherwise, this is a major style faux pas.

In addition, the complex shapes achievable with extruded aluminium allow the window designer to incorporate such features as grooves for joints, draft excluders, thermal breaks and glazing beads. When ...

Instead: If you’re forgoing real, working shutters, go artfully faux. Place blocks of wood behind them to push the shutters off the house, and be sure they overlap the trim, as bona fide ones would.

If you want your shutters to extend the entire height of your windows, measure the inside of your window from top to bottom, leaving a 1/16 inch allowance at each end.

Perforated-aluminium screens zigzag around the walls of this cylindrical arts museum in Shanghai, which was designed by Wutopia Lab and features a 1970s-style rockery. Local architecture studio ...

In this bedroom in a grand Freemans Bay villa, Brightshine teamed shutters with a roller blind over the door, and floor-to-ceiling curtains that help to soften the room visually.TESSA CHRISP / Not ...

First, there are louver shutters, which have individual slats and are probably what most people picture when they think of shutters; these are the most classic style, Kelly Neely, the founder of ...

Aluminium components also offer comparably high strength and rigidity, making them particularly suitable for applications such as sash and frames of windows and patio doors. The material’s rigidity ...

Too-Small Shutters and Other Common Window Mistakes, According to Design Pros Architects and designers on the window gaffes they see most often, and how to get them beautifully right By ...