Shutter BoysPlantation shutters in Cape Coral
Homes in Cape Coral
Cape Coral is a city of houses: of its 100,679 homes, 79% are detached, 4% are townhouses and other attached houses and 16% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
Much of Cape Coral is new: 51% of homes were built 2000 or later, and only 15% before 1980. The median home dates from 2000. Owners live in 77% of homes.
In Fort Myers, 11 miles away, 52% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Cape Coral's homes are newer than those in 89% of the 881 US cities we have census figures for.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024. Estimates carry margins of error.
Shallow openings
51% of homes were built in 2000 or later. Newer windows are often set close to the room side of the wall, and handles, cranks and alarm sensors stick out into the space a louver swings through. Measure the depth to the glass and to anything that sticks out; the designer checks it against the louver size you pick.
Rounded drywall corners
85% of homes here were built from 1980 on, and many houses of that era have rounded ("bullnose") drywall corners around the windows instead of square returns. A shutter can't sit flat against a curve: choose an outside mount with a frame that clears the corner, or an inside mount if the flat part of the opening is deep enough for your louvers.
Whole-house orders
With 79% of homes detached, most orders here cover a whole house: bedrooms, a patio door, perhaps a bay. Put every window in one list in the designer so the louver size and colour match from the street, and if you have an HOA, send it the drawings before you order.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 77% of homes, and shutters are usually bought to stay with the house. Poplar takes paint well, so they can be repainted years from now if you change a room's colours. Keep your order list: it records every size if you add a room later.
A whole house in Cape Coral
The most common home in Cape Coral has three bedrooms: 63% of homes. 16% have four bedrooms or more, and 3% have one or none. The median home has 5.5 rooms.
Detached houses are the most common kind of home here. Across the US, the middle home among detached houses has 10 to 15 windows (EIA, 2020). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $3,200 to $6,000. For scale, that's about 1.2% of the median home value here, $373,500 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 (bedrooms B25041, rooms B25018, value B25077); U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2020, Table HC2.1 (windows). EIA RECS 2020, Table HC2.1
A typical home10–15 windows
All of them shuttered$3,200 to $6,000
Every window priced as a 36 × 48 in opening in our basic build (flat moulding, paint stage 1, 3½ in louvers), before tax and shipping. Your windows will differ; the designer prices each one.
Price your own windowsWorking from home
15% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 57% of the 881 US cities we have figures for. Glare on a screen comes from direct sun and bright sky behind or beside it. Louvers tilted up throw daylight at the ceiling instead, so the room stays bright and the screen stays readable; wider louvers give the clearest view when you open them.
Ages (B01001), working from home (B08301) and value (B25077): U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, 2020–2024. Rankings compare the US cities we have figures for.
Cape Coral weather and your shutters
At FT Myers Page Fld AP, FL (9 mi away), August averages a high of 91.7°F and January a low of 54.3°F. Average highs reach 85°F from April to October.
About 120 days a year reach 90°F, 0 nights fall to freezing and 57.5 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around August and least in February.
That's more 90°F days than in 94% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 13 h 49 min on the longest day to 10 h 28 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 87° above the horizon in June and 40° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, FT Myers Page Fld AP, FL (temperature) and FT Myers Page Fld AP, FL (precipitation, 9 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 75°F | 54.3°F | 2.4 in |
| Feb | 78°F | 56.6°F | 1.8 in |
| Mar | 81.1°F | 59.6°F | 2.1 in |
| Apr | 85.3°F | 64.3°F | 2.4 in |
| May | 89.5°F | 69.1°F | 3.5 in |
| Jun | 91°F | 73.6°F | 9.7 in |
| Jul | 91.6°F | 74.7°F | 9.4 in |
| Aug | 91.7°F | 75.1°F | 10.4 in |
| Sep | 90°F | 74.3°F | 9 in |
| Oct | 86.6°F | 69.4°F | 3.1 in |
| Nov | 81.3°F | 61.8°F | 1.8 in |
| Dec | 77.3°F | 57.3°F | 1.9 in |
Humid summers
Hot days and 57.5 inches of precipitation make for heavy summer air. Wood swells when it's humid, so give kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms some air: run the fan after a shower and tilt the louvers open so steam doesn't sit behind them.
Months of hard sun
With 120 days a year above 90°F, sun on the window is the main thing shutters do here. Closed louvers stop direct sun before it reaches the room; angled up, they still let light bounce off the ceiling. On south and west windows, white and light finishes stay cooler and show fading less than dark stains; keep stains for windows out of the afternoon sun.
Fitting them in Cape Coral
Shutter Boys shutters are made for you to fit yourself: an inside or outside mount takes a drill, a level and our step-by-step guide. If you'd rather hire someone, a finish carpenter or blinds installer can fit them; ask on your quote and we'll tell you if we know one near you. You arrange and pay the installer directly.
Near Cape Coral
- Fort Myers 11 mi
- Lehigh Acres 22 mi
- Bonita Springs 24 mi
- Port Charlotte 25 mi
- North Port 31 mi
- Naples 36 mi
More about shutters in Cape Coral
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Price your windows
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