What California shutters cost in Canada: 2027 prices in CAD

Updated October 22, 2026

The short version: a bedroom window in our basic build is $460 – $570 CAD, before tax and shipping. A whole house is the sum of its windows, so the fastest way to a real number is to put your own sizes in the designer. Every price on this page comes from the same price list, so it changes when the designer’s does.

By window size

“Basic” is flat moulding, paint stage 1 in a standard colour and 3½ in louvers. “Dressed up” is moulded stiles and rails, paint stage 3, 4½ in louvers and a colour match to your trim: about as far as the options go on a rectangle.

Canadian dollars, before tax and shipping. Ranges, because the final price depends on the details of each opening.

Measured in millimetres? The designer takes either unit: choose millimetres before you type, and your figure goes to the workshop as you entered it, not rounded to the nearest inch. The table gives both, so you can check a tape in either.

By home

These three homes are examples we made up to show how the total builds, not averages of real orders. When you count your own, walk the house rather than working from memory: the basement, the stairwell and the door to the yard are the openings people forget.

The gap between the two columns is the honest answer to “how much do shutters cost”: the same house can land in either column, and the difference is choices, not windows. Decide which options you’d actually notice every day, and spend there.

What moves the price

• Area, first. Price follows the area of the opening, not the number of panels, and each option below is charged by area too. So an option costs little on a bathroom window and a lot across a patio door: if you want to save, make the plain choice on the biggest openings.
• Moulding level. Flat stiles and rails are the plainest and cheapest; moulded ones add a routed profile and cost more.
• Paint stage. Higher stages add to the price. Stage 1 in a standard colour is the starting point.
• Louver width. 4½ in louvers cost more than 2½ or 3½ in, and need a deeper opening. Choosing a louver size
• Colour match or stain. Matching your trim or a stain colour adds to it.
• A mounting frame. Needed for outside mounts and for shallow or out-of-square openings; it adds to the price but often saves a remake.
• Shape. Arches cost more than rectangles of the same size; half-rounds, angled tops and circles are priced by hand. Arched and shaped windows

What each option costs on its own

The list above says which way each choice moves the price. This table says how far, from the same price list: the basic build, then each option added to it on its own. The bedroom window shows what an option costs on a small opening; the patio door shows the same choice across a large one.

Two things to take from it. First, a choice that looks cheap on one window isn’t cheap across a house: multiply the gap in the bedroom column by the number of windows you have. Second, the options aren’t equally visible. Louver width changes the view and the light every day; moulding level is something visitors notice from across the room; paint stage is closest up. If the budget is tight, spend where you’ll see it.

A mounting frame is the one option that isn’t really a style choice. It’s what makes an outside mount possible, and it covers an opening that isn’t square or deep enough to hold the shutter on its own. If your measurements show more than a small difference between the top, middle and bottom widths, price the frame in from the start rather than finding out at install.

What isn’t in the number

• Installation. Our shutters are made to fit by you, with a step-by-step guide. If you’d rather hire someone, that’s a separate bill between you and the installer.
• Shipping, which depends on where the order goes.
• Sales tax, below.

Sales tax by province

These are the Canada Revenue Agency’s rates in effect since April 1, 2025, when Nova Scotia’s HST fell to 14%^[1]. Which of them apply to an order depends on the province it ships to.

Quebec isn’t listed: orders there open once our French site is ready.

The tax follows the delivery address, not the buyer. Under the Canada Revenue Agency’s place-of-supply rules, goods that are mailed or couriered are supplied in the province they’re sent to^[2]. So shutters for a cottage in Nova Scotia, ordered from Toronto and shipped to the cottage, are taxed at Nova Scotia’s rate.

A worked example. The townhouse above, in the basic build, is $5,880 – $7,190 CAD before tax. Shipped to Ontario, 13% HST makes it about $6,644 – $8,125 CAD. Shipped to Alberta, with 5% GST and no provincial tax, about $6,174 – $7,550 CAD. Shipping is on top of both, and the final tax is worked out on the order itself.

How to compare quotes

A shutter quote is only comparable to another once you know what’s in it. Ask every seller the same questions, and write the answers next to the totals:

1. What is the shutter made of, all the way through? Solid wood, MDF, a composite or vinyl?
2. What louver width is quoted, in inches or millimetres?
3. Is a frame included, and is it inside or outside mount?
4. Is installation included, and who does it?
5. Is the price before or after tax, and is shipping included?
6. What does the warranty cover, and for how long?

A seventh question is worth asking: does the price hold if you add or drop a window, or is the quote a package? Ask it of everyone, us included. Ours are priced window by window, so a quote changes by exactly that window’s price when the list changes.

Ordering in stages

Plenty of people don’t do the whole house at once. Street-facing rooms and bedrooms usually come first, for privacy; the rest follows when the budget does. Because every window is priced on its own, splitting an order doesn’t change what each shutter costs. What can change is everything around the shutter: each order ships separately, and the price list can move between orders. If you plan to finish the house later, price every room now in the designer so you know the whole number, and note the louver size, moulding level and colour you choose for the first order, so the later rooms can match the first ones.

One thing worth thinking about: the cheapest quote and the most expensive one often differ less in the shutter than in the service around it. Paying someone to measure and install is a real choice, and a fair one. It’s just worth knowing that it’s the part of the price you can do yourself. How to measure