Premium High Quality Spanish Cedar Bahama Shutters
Welcome to the world of coastal sophistication and timeless craftsmanship with our premium high-quality wooden Bahama shutters. These exquisite architectural accents not only enhance the aesthetics of your home but also provide functional benefits like shade, privacy, and hurricane protection. Explore the beauty and durability of wooden Bahama shutters in this comprehensive guide.
Craftsmanship Beyond Compare: Our wooden Bahama shutters are a testament to impeccable craftsmanship. Handcrafted by skilled artisans, each shutter embodies meticulous attention to detail and precision. Made from top-grade wood materials, these shutters are built to withstand the test of time, ensuring your investment remains beautiful and functional for years to come.
Coastal Elegance, Tailored to You: Choose from a wide range of customization options to tailor your wooden Bahama shutters to your unique style and taste. Select from various wood species, finishes, and louver sizes to match your home's coastal aesthetic perfectly. With our made-to-order options, you can create shutters that reflect your vision for your home.
Sun, Shade, and Privacy Control: Experience the versatility of wooden Bahama shutters when it comes to controlling natural light, providing shade, and ensuring privacy. The adjustable louvers allow you to effortlessly regulate the amount of sunlight and airflow, creating a comfortable and inviting interior environment. Enjoy the benefits of a sun-soaked retreat or a shaded oasis on demand.
Hurricane Protection: Living in coastal areas means preparing for hurricane season. Our wooden Bahama shutters are not only elegant but also designed to provide robust hurricane protection. When storms approach, you can quickly secure these shutters in place, protecting your home and family from high winds and flying debris.
Durability and Longevity: Our wooden Bahama shutters are engineered to withstand the harshest coastal conditions. They are resistant to warping, fading, and corrosion, ensuring they maintain their beauty and functionality even in saltwater environments. Invest in shutters that will endure for years, adding both value and style to your home.
Low Maintenance, High Value: Maintaining the beauty and functionality of our wooden Bahama shutters is remarkably easy. Routine cleaning and occasional inspections are all that's needed to keep them looking pristine. Unlike other exterior enhancements, these shutters don't require frequent replacement, making them a cost-effective and valuable investment.
Elevate Your Coastal Living: Enhance your coastal living experience with premium high-quality wooden Bahama shutters. These architectural accents not only provide shade and protection but also add to the overall character of your coastal property. When it's time to sell, potential buyers will appreciate the enduring beauty and quality of your home.
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Beautifully hand crafted, Estate Millwork's Bahama Shutter collection will add elegance and functionality with loads of style to your home. Distinguished from other shutters by the fact that they are hinged at the top, rather than the sides, and usually have but one shutter per window, rather than two. Ideal for warm climates, Mediterranean and Caribbean style homes, Bahama shutters add shade to windows, porches and cabanas, as well as allowing for the shifting tropical breezes to pass to the interior of the house.
Solid Wood Construction
Our Bahama Shutters are made from the top grades of lumber, and are designed with extra structural details that allow them to be used in even the largest scale. We have made Bahama Shutters that are in excess of 14 feet wide, with as many as 7 sub-stiles. Our standard thickness is a stout 1 5/16, and because these shutters are constructed with top grade hardwoods and true deep pocket mortise and tenon joinery, they are much stronger than most other brands. They can be fitted with louver blades of any size and shape, and for some applications, our customers equip them with operating louvers that allow the louvers to be fully open or fully closed, or anything in between.
Expert Craftsmanship
In order to maximize the durability of our exterior Bahama shutters, they are hand assembled by master craftsman using parts that are made in our state of the art plant. Our workers are skilled at the old world art of mortise and tenon joinery, and have a knack for assembling these elegant masterpieces in wood that sometimes can have more than 500 parts. Each shutter is joined with precision joinery, doweled and machine sanded. Then, depending upon the application, it will be hand sanded, primed, painted or stained.
Customize until perfect...
All of our Bahama Shutters are built to order, and we can work from sketches, photographs, CAD files, or existing shutters. Our goal is to make the perfect shutter for each application, and perfection is a combination of proportion, dimension, style and craftsmanship. We can work with you to meet your exacting requirements, and because of the high degree of automation in our plant, we are able to produce completely custom, furniture grade millwork at very competitive prices, often at prices lower than manufacturers using inferior materials and joinery. Our website is a good starting point for your project, you can browse the styles of Bahama shutters that we offer, and get quick pricing and detailed drawings on line. You can order directly on line, or feel free to contact us with special needs or project requirements.
Solid Wood Mortise and Tenons
True Tenons
Our premium quality shutters are carefully constructed using a time consuming and precise operation. Whereas other lower quality shutters are made using screws, nails, dowels or biscuit joints, each of our exterior wooden shutters has a minimum of 4 hardwood tenons. The end of each rail is painstakingly machined to have a 1/2" X 1 7/8" tenon by a custom built tenoning machine that Estate Millwork developed so that we could continue to provide the best quality joinery in the industry, at an attractive price. We gave up the cost, but not the quality.
Deep Pocket Mortises
Each stile is precision machined with a minimum of two deep pocket mortises, and these mortises perfectly fit the associated tenon. Again, Estate Millwork has used precision automation to preserve the quality of our products, while reducing the cost. We have software that connects our website directly to the machines in the plant, and when a customer places an order with us, all of the precision programs for machining the mortises into the stiles are sent to the plant for automatic execution. The mortise tenon joint, is the strongest joint in millwork, and adds tremendous strength, even without the use of glue.
Hardwood Dowels
Once the tenon and mortise have been machined, the parts are put together and a hole is drilled through the mortise and the tenon. A slightly oversized hardwood dowel is driven into the hole, locking the tenon into the mortise for the life of the shutter. Even though glue is not required, Estate Millwork takes the added step of gluing the tenon into the mortise, and gluing the hardwood dowel into the stile.
Hand Assembly
In our commitment to preserving the best of quality millwork traditions in each wood shutter, we have automated much of the drudgery of some of the operations, but assembling a shutter is still something very much in the realm of craftsmanship. After all the parts of each wooden shutter are manufactured, one of our skilled craftsmen fits them together in a specialized jig for dry fitting and final assembly. We do not use pneumatic or hydraulic clamps as they can damage or over-stress the wood. The craftsman uses his innate feel for the materials to set the appropriate clamping pressure prior to drilling and doweling. Each wooden shutter receives the individual attention of craftsmen all along the way, but the final assembly is where the shutter comes together the first time, ready for years of service on your home.
Shutter Options
Thickness, Width, Height
The "slab dimensions" are the size of the actual exterior shutter from top to bottom, left to right, and the thickness. Our default standard thickness is 1 5/16", but that can be varied from 7/8" to 2 1/4" to match existing exterior shutters. The length and height can be specified to the nearest 1/16" inch. Depending upon the style of the shutter, we have made widths up to 20 feet wide, and heights up 30 feet.
Shutter Frame Dimensions
Because all of our exterior wooden shutters are custom built from true rail and stile construction, we have the ability to replicate any component dimension on existing shutters, including rail height, placement, width, thickness, and stile width and thickness. Typically, the bottom rail of our custom shutters is 4. high, and all other rails are 2 1/2" inches. Stile widths are usually 2 1/2" but we have the ability to make them of virtually any width, including different widths for left and right stiles -- sometimes used for pairs of shutters.
Custom Sticking
Out standard products are S4S, or square shoulder sticking, but we have the capability to mould any feasible profile to the inner or outer frame fields. Common choices are ogee, cove and bead, bevel, cove etc. In addition to our stock sticking profiles, we can also custom grind tooling to achieve any desired profile to either match historical wood shutters, or to meet an architects or home owner.s specifications and preferences.
Shiplapping and Beading
For operable shutters, or for decoration, our wood shutters can be machined with a bead on one face of the inside edge of the shutter, and with a ship lap on the other, allowing the shutters to overlap by 3/8" when they are in the closed position - permitting a tighter fit. The left and right shutters are machined as pairs so that in the closed position, each face of the pair has a decorative bead visible.
Panel Profiles
Our raised panel shutters can be raised with our standard scoop profile, but we offer bevels, coves, ogeees and other profiles as well. Additionally, for the extremely discriminating home owner or architect we can create new tooling to match existing historical panel profiles, or to meet with a unique custom requirement.
Louver Styles
Our louvered shutters can be fitted with either our standard bullnose louvers in 3 sizes, or with a chevron or bevel profile as options. And because we are a custom shutter maker, we can also accommodate any special profiles that are specified by the customer.
Cut Outs
Raised Panel and Flat Panel Shutters can have a limitless variety of decorative cut outs machined into the center of the panels. Common shapes are moons, anchors, trees, hearts and we have a large number of stock cut outs which we offer, as well as the ability to match custom patterns that are provided by the customer
Finishes
Estate Millwork can ship our custom wooden shutters in natural, primed, painted or stained finishes. We can match national brand color numbers, pre-tint primers for light or dark finishes, and apply hand rubbed stain finished, even to the time consuming louvered shutters.
Is Spanish Cedar Really Cedar?
Despite its name, Spanish Cedar is not Spanish nor Cedar but a hardwood. Spanish Cedar comes from the Meliaceae family, and is similar to Genuine Mahogany in its beautiful coloration, attractive grain pattern, and great workability. The grain of Spanish Cedar is usually quite straight and works well with both hand and power tools.
Known for its distinctively strong cedar smell Spanish Cedar is also known as Cigar-box Cedar, the wood’s natural aroma repels insects, and the high resin count makes it very weather and rot resistant. Due to its low density, the lumber is quite lightweight, which makes this wood highly sought after as a high quality exterior grade species.
Spanish cedar, scientifically known as Cedrela odorata, is a highly sought-after hardwood that offers a unique blend of beauty, durability, and versatility. Spanish cedar showcases a stunning palette of colors, ranging from pale pink to reddish-brown, often featuring a golden luster. This hardwood's grain patterns are captivating, adding a touch of elegance to any project. Whether you're crafting fine furniture, interior paneling, or building cigar humidors, Spanish cedar's distinct beauty is sure to leave a lasting impression. One of the key advantages of Spanish cedar is its natural resistance to insects and decay. It is renowned for its ability to repel pests, making it an excellent choice for applications where wood durability and longevity are paramount. This resistance, coupled with its fine texture, ensures that your Spanish cedar projects remain as beautiful as they are functional.
Discover the unique blend of beauty, durability, and versatility that Spanish cedar brings to your projects. Explore our extensive selection today and unlock the potential to transform your living spaces into showcases of sophistication and natural elegance. Choose Spanish cedar and make a statement that truly stands out and stands the test of time.
Handcrafted with Sustainably Harvested Lumber
At Estate Millwork we air dry much of our lumber, and after air drying we finish drying in low wattage dehumidification kilns.
Every piece of wood we purchase is used to the fullest on products, at Estate Millwork we have a very high yield ratio of 94 percent due to the use of automated saws and optimizing software. The remainimg 6 percent which is mostly sawdust and chips are either burned to heat our plant or send to local cattle farmers for bedding and composting.
Nothing is wasted. Some of Appalachian lumber we use comes from Amish farmers in our county who harvest with horses instead of mechanized equipment, and do our rough sawing on 1920s sawmills that are also extremely low input compared to larger commercial sawmills of today. All of our imported lumber is plantation grown, and not harvested from natural forests.
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