I’ve formally crossed off the primary undertaking from my 2025 record of dwelling objectives. My workshop has shutters! First, let me remind you ways this workshop seemed proper after we had it constructed…
It was a really plain constructing with tons of potential. And naturally, my aim is to show this from a plain, drab little constructing into one thing that appears like a cute little cottage in our again yard. Step one in the direction of that aim was so as to add shutters to the constructing.
I may have bought shutters from the corporate that constructed the workshop for me, however I didn’t just like the shutters that they provided. First, their shutters had been manner too skimpy for my liking — very slim shutters that didn’t match the proportions of the home windows. They’d have seemed like this…
These would have seemed manner too tiny on my a lot bigger workshop. But additionally, I would like my workshop to appear to be an extension of our home, and since I constructed the shutters on our home, I wanted to construct these to match. And since I constructed them myself, I may make them the proper proportions for my home windows.
I didn’t take photos of the steps I took to make, set up, and decorate these shutters as a result of I’ve already coated all of these steps the primary time I made them for our home. However I did made these precisely like those for our home. They’re made out of PVC boards (which I buy at Lowe’s) in order that they’ll by no means rot. I painted them Benjamin Moore Gentleman’s Grey, which I had colour matched at Sherwin Williams in order that I may use their system that’s protected for vinyl siding, which is critical because it’s such a darkish colour, and darkish colours that aren’t vinyl protected can warp in solar and sizzling climate. (To make it vinyl protected, they mainly take away any black from the system and exchange it with blue.) And for the ornamental touches, I used these T-strap hinges (I used the 8-inch on these shutters), these cast iron shutter dogs, and these cast iron ring pulls (all affiliate hyperlinks).
This was a four-day undertaking. It took me sooner or later to construct the shutters, sooner or later to color them, sooner or later to put in them, and sooner or later to place the ending touches (ornamental hinges, pulls, and shutter canine) on them. And right here’s how they turned out…
I really like how they turned out! That is solely the primary undertaking I’ve deliberate for the outside of this constructing, and already it’s such an enormous distinction.
And right here’s a glance behind the constructing. I put shutters on all 4 home windows as a result of they’re all very seen. The truth is, the again of the constructing is what I see probably the most because it’s seen from the road and from the driveway each time I pull into the carport. So the again of the constructing must look simply as cute because the entrance.
Whereas I didn’t take photos of the DIY course of this time, I did do movies of the entire course of. In order that video is coming for these of you preferring video tutorials over written tutorials. One in every of my most important objectives this yr is to concentrate on doing a complete lot of video tutorials for my initiatives. However I’ll nonetheless have written tutorials with a number of images for brand spanking new initiatives as properly.
Right here’s a close-up view so you possibly can see the small print of the completed shutters. The entrance hinges are solely ornamental, as are the shutter canine. The shutters canine are actually glued onto the shutters, in order that they don’t truly flip. However I really like how these little particulars actually elevate the look of shutters that may in any other case be fairly plain.
So undertaking #1 for the yr is marked off of the record!
And regardless that the climate has turned chilly on us, I’m decided to get just a few extra initiatives completed on this constructing earlier than I flip my consideration to the bed room suite. It might be chilly, however the solar remains to be shining (for now), so I plan to reap the benefits of that whereas it lasts.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
