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.
Introducing the Elegant Governor Bahama Shutters: Elevating Charm and Functionality
Introducing Estate Millwork's exquisite Bahama Shutter collection, meticulously handcrafted to enhance both the charm and practicality of your home. These shutters are distinguished by their unique design, hinged at the top rather than the sides, and typically featuring a single shutter per window, setting them apart from conventional styles.
Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, our Bahama Shutters are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional. Designed especially for warm climates, they are the perfect addition to Mediterranean and Caribbean-style homes. These shutters serve a dual purpose: not only do they add a touch of elegance to your windows, porches, and cabanas, but they also provide essential shade, helping to keep interiors cool and comfortable. Additionally, their innovative design allows for the gentle flow of tropical breezes into your home, fostering a refreshing ambiance throughout.
Estate Millwork's Bahama Shutters offer the perfect blend of style, functionality, and craftsmanship, elevating the appeal of your home while ensuring practicality in any climate.
Masterfully Crafted Bahama Shutters: Unrivaled Strength and Artistry
Constructed with the utmost attention to detail, our Bahama Shutters boast a solid wood construction of the highest caliber. Crafted from the finest grades of lumber, these shutters are engineered with additional structural elements to ensure durability, making them suitable even for the most expansive installations.
At Estate Millwork, we pride ourselves on pushing the boundaries of craftsmanship. Our Bahama Shutters are available in widths exceeding 14 feet, featuring up to 7 sub-stiles for added reinforcement. With a robust standard thickness of 1 5/16 inches, these shutters are engineered to withstand the test of time.
Unlike many other brands, our shutters are meticulously constructed using top-grade hardwoods and authentic deep pocket mortise and tenon joinery techniques. This superior construction method enhances their strength and longevity, guaranteeing years of reliable performance.
Moreover, our shutters offer unparalleled versatility. They can be customized with louvers of any size and shape to suit your preferences. For added functionality, some of our customers opt for operating louvers, allowing precise control over light and airflow. Whether fully open, fully closed, or somewhere in between, our shutters provide the flexibility to adapt to any environment or application.
With Estate Millwork's Bahama Shutters, you can trust in both the beauty and resilience of your window treatments, enhancing the aesthetic appeal and functionality of your space for years to come.
Unparalleled Expertise in Craftsmanship
At Estate Millwork, we take immense pride in the meticulous construction of our exterior Bahama shutters, a process overseen by our team of master craftsmen. Every component is carefully hand-assembled within our state-of-the-art facility, ensuring the highest standards of quality and durability.
Our craftsmen possess a mastery of the ancient art of mortise and tenon joinery, skillfully bringing together intricate designs that can comprise over 500 individual parts. Each shutter is meticulously crafted with precision joinery techniques, meticulously dowelled, and machine-sanded to perfection.
Following assembly, each shutter undergoes a tailored finishing process to suit its intended application. Whether hand-sanded for a smooth surface, primed for paint adhesion, or stained to enhance the natural beauty of the wood, no detail is overlooked in our pursuit of excellence.
Tailored to Perfection: Customization at Its Finest
At Estate Millwork, every Bahama Shutter is meticulously crafted to order, tailored precisely to meet your unique specifications. Whether you provide sketches, photographs, CAD files, or simply have existing shutters for reference, our team is dedicated to bringing your vision to life.
We understand that perfection lies in the careful balance of proportion, dimension, style, and craftsmanship. That's why we collaborate closely with each client to ensure that every detail aligns with their exacting standards.
Thanks to the advanced automation in our manufacturing plant, we're able to deliver fully customized, furniture-grade millwork at remarkably competitive prices. Despite our commitment to using only the finest materials and joinery techniques, our efficient processes often result in prices lower than those offered by manufacturers employing inferior methods.
Begin your journey towards the ideal Bahama Shutters by exploring our comprehensive website. Here, you can browse through a diverse range of styles, obtain quick pricing estimates, and access detailed drawings online. Whether you choose to place your order directly through our website or prefer to discuss special requirements with our team, we're here to accommodate your needs every step of the way.
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.
Exquisite and Durable Sapele Hardwood: A Hidden Treasure
Sapele lumber, sourced from the sapele tree native to the tropical regions of West Africa, stands as a prized gem in the realm of fine woodworking. Renowned for its stunning appearance, remarkable durability, and versatile nature, sapele wood is cherished by woodworkers and builders alike for its myriad of applications.
Often hailed as the "African mahogany," sapele hardwood boasts a captivating palette ranging from rich reddish-brown to deep mahogany, acquiring a luxurious patina with age that enhances its innate elegance. Its distinctive ribbon-like grain patterns and lustrous finish add an air of sophistication to any project, captivating designers and craftsmen seeking to create visually striking pieces.
Beyond its aesthetic allure, sapele hardwood offers exceptional durability, withstanding wear, decay, and rot with ease. Whether utilized for interior or exterior projects, sapele's stability and strength ensure longevity and functionality for generations to come.
Highly workable and responsive to finishing techniques, sapele hardwood lends itself to a myriad of design possibilities. Whether applying a clear finish to accentuate its rich grain or opting for a darker stain to infuse depth and character, sapele adapts effortlessly to achieve desired aesthetics. From fine furniture and cabinetry to boat building and musical instruments, sapele hardwood proves its versatility time and again, cementing its status as a valuable asset in the world of woodworking and interior design.
Handcrafted with Sustainably Harvested Lumber
At Estate Millwork, we employ a meticulous process to ensure the quality and sustainability of our lumber. Our commitment begins with the careful air drying of much of our lumber, followed by further refinement in low wattage dehumidification kilns to achieve optimal moisture levels.
Every single piece of wood we acquire undergoes thorough utilization in our production processes. Leveraging advanced automated saws and optimization software, we achieve an exceptional yield ratio of 94 percent. This means that nearly all of the wood we purchase is transformed into usable products. The small remainder, comprising mainly sawdust and chips, is utilized efficiently: either utilized as fuel to power our operations, or repurposed by providing bedding and contributing to composting for local cattle farmers.
Our dedication to minimizing waste extends to the sourcing of our materials. A significant portion of the lumber we use hails from Amish farmers within our county. These farmers adhere to traditional practices, utilizing horses for harvesting and operating vintage 1920s sawmills. Such methods not only contribute to the preservation of heritage techniques but also entail lower environmental impact compared to modern industrial approaches.
Furthermore, our commitment to sustainability is evident in the sourcing of our imported lumber. We exclusively procure lumber from plantation-grown sources, thereby ensuring that our operations do not contribute to deforestation or the depletion of natural forests. By prioritizing responsible sourcing and efficient utilization, Estate Millwork strives to uphold environmental stewardship while delivering exceptional craftsmanship.
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