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Shutter mounting location and shutter width?

last year

I’m making and putting up some simple but functional board and batten shutters on the house.

Should I mount hinges on:

1. the red marks (brick) and have the shutters cover the entire brick opening (this is the current size shutter from the pic) or

2. the blue marks (window casing) and have the shutters just cover the window, not the entire brick opening? The window casing is wood wrapped with aluminum and I believe strong enough.

Wooden shutters will be painted, just trying to get the design right before making more.


Something else I’m trying to figure out is these windows below, close to the planters, won’t allow the same width shutter when mounted to the brick (outlines in blue), but may work when mounted to the casing because the shutter would need to be narrower to just cover the window. Maybe this will influence the mounting locations and width of all shutters?





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