Shutters. Love 'em.

Not for practicality sake, though if I lived in hurricane-prone areas I'd love 'em for that.  I love 'em when they show their age like a crown of glory....chippy and battered and beaten by years out in the elements.  Here's how I've used old shutters, new shutters I made to look old, and used shutters I haven't touched.

My favorite-ist is this chippy old one I picked up last year at an antiques shop.

Just hung it and sighed in wonder.



























I used it as the foundation for my header pic and button at my homeschooling blog the harvey files.

The other shutters I picked up at the ReStore.  One I painted, sanded, dry brushed on some white and hung on the back porch:

Then there's the other two sets.  The small set I haven't even cleaned the cobwebs from.  Eewww.  The second set I sprayed with heirloom white.  Might distress and glaze later.  They are adorning my mantle for the fall.

On the exterior of my house, the shutters aren't my fave, but after I painted them, they've grown on me.  These shots are from last fall:

Here's what they looked like before.  Ick.

Shot of the outside just the day of our inspection with the orange shutters and brown trim:

Last summer after I had just painted the house green, trim white  and shutters deep olive.

So that's a wrap.  How I do shutters.  The end.

This post is linkeroo'ed with Donna's Saturday Night Special.