I'm with the leaves. I commonly use plastic bags for collection of fallen leaves that I cant see going into the composter. They then are given a little soil--maybe from the compost, some nitrogen fertilizer to speed up the breakdown, maybe some sugar, other ingredients as they come....then placed behind a hedge, out of sight and left to compost down for about a year, when the leaf mold is given to my roses and other plants. Given that the holes will get rid of excess moisture, its an ideal resevoir for what doesn't go into the compost.

I've used Shutter-Renu on my house shutters since it came out. Excellent results in restoring the color and leaves the shutters with a soft gloss sheen. I recommend it, unless you're wishing to change colors, then you'll need to clean and repaint with Fusion or other Vinyl/Plastic paints.

Ok, I know what you mean about visualizing, I'm like that too. Here goes....the sill cap is a "cover" that goes over the existing window sill. It is simply cosmetic as it is larger than the existing sill and would make the shutters "blend" better with the sill. This is an outside mount. From the side, as if you rested your cheek on the wall, a gap is visible because the sill cap can't slide toward the window quite far enough (because of the "fancy" trim on the sill edge). I'm still practicing with that new camera. Could anyone post pics of their plantation shutter/sill situation? Maybe I would luck out and be able to say "yes yes--like your situation!" Thanks for trying to help me figure this out.

thanks for the suggestions on photoshop. I did add the shutters in paint but we're still not decided if we need shutters for all or center or no windows. Enclosing pictures with shutters on all of them and shutters on center block. Also, we're thinking of matching the door color with the color of the shutter. Any opnions? As for adding picture to the post, I uploaded the picture to tinypic.com and pasted the html link.