I’ve formally crossed off the primary undertaking from my 2025 checklist of residence targets. My workshop has shutters! First, let me remind you ways this workshop regarded 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 direction of that aim was so as to add shutters to the constructing.
I might have bought shutters from the corporate that constructed the workshop for me, however I didn’t just like the shutters that they supplied. First, their shutters had been method too skimpy for my liking — very slim shutters that didn’t match the proportions of the home windows. They’d have regarded like this…
These would have regarded method too tiny on my a lot bigger workshop. But in addition, I would like my workshop to seem like 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 might make them the proper proportions for my home windows.
I didn’t take footage 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 might use their formulation that’s secure for vinyl siding, which is important because it’s such a darkish colour, and darkish colours that aren’t vinyl secure can warp in solar and scorching climate. (To make it vinyl secure, they mainly take away any black from the formulation and change it with blue.) And for the ornamental touches, I used these T-strap hinges (I used the 8-inch on these shutters), these forged iron shutter canines, and these forged iron ring pulls (all affiliate hyperlinks).
This was a four-day undertaking. It took me in the future to construct the shutters, in the future to color them, in the future to put in them, and in the future to place the ending touches (ornamental hinges, pulls, and shutter canines) on them. And right here’s how they turned out…
I 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 essentially 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 footage 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 predominant targets this 12 months is to deal with doing a complete lot of video tutorials for my initiatives. However I’ll nonetheless have written tutorials with plenty of pictures for brand new initiatives as effectively.
Right here’s a close-up view so you’ll be able to see the main points of the completed shutters. The entrance hinges are solely ornamental, as are the shutter canines. The shutters canines are actually glued onto the shutters, in order that they don’t really flip. However I like how these little particulars actually elevate the look of shutters that will in any other case be fairly plain.
So undertaking #1 for the 12 months is marked off of the checklist!
And although 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 benefit from that whereas it lasts.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish 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 possibly can study extra about me right here.
