Shutter BoysPlantation shutters in Casas Adobes
Homes in Casas Adobes
Casas Adobes is a city of houses: of its 33,143 homes, 66% are detached, 7% are townhouses and other attached houses and 24% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 46% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 35% are older than that and 19% newer. The median home dates from 1986. 67% of homes are lived in by their owners.
Its housing is much like Catalina Foothills's, 8 miles away. Nationally, Casas Adobes's homes are newer than those in 70% 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.
Whole-house orders
With 66% 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.
Rounded drywall corners
65% 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.
A whole house in Casas Adobes
The most common home in Casas Adobes has three bedrooms: 44% of homes. 20% have four bedrooms or more, and 11% have one or none. The median home has 5.4 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 1.3% of the median home value here, $343,400 (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
16% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 61% 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.
Casas Adobes weather and your shutters
At Tohono Chul, AZ (2 mi away), June averages a high of 101.8°F and January a low of 36.6°F. Average highs reach 85°F from May to October.
About 159 days a year reach 90°F, 19 nights fall to freezing and 11.4 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around July and least in April.
That's more 90°F days than in 97% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 14 h 16 min on the longest day to 10 h 1 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 81° above the horizon in June and 34° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Tohono Chul, AZ (temperature) and Tucson 10.7 Nnw, AZ (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 66.6°F | 36.6°F | 0.9 in |
| Feb | 69.6°F | 39.4°F | 1.1 in |
| Mar | 76.6°F | 43.5°F | 0.7 in |
| Apr | 83.9°F | 50.1°F | 0.2 in |
| May | 92°F | 59.1°F | 0.2 in |
| Jun | 101.8°F | 68.3°F | 0.3 in |
| Jul | 101.2°F | 74°F | 2.4 in |
| Aug | 99.5°F | 71.5°F | 2.1 in |
| Sep | 95.8°F | 66.8°F | 1.2 in |
| Oct | 87.6°F | 55.8°F | 0.7 in |
| Nov | 76.2°F | 44.2°F | 0.6 in |
| Dec | 66.7°F | 36.9°F | 1 in |
Months of hard sun
With 159 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.
Dry air
Only 11.4 inches of precipitation a year, and days and nights about 31°F apart. Dry air pulls moisture out of wood, so poplar louvers can shrink very slightly through their first dry season; that's normal for real wood.
Fitting them in Casas Adobes
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 Casas Adobes
- Catalina Foothills 8 mi
- Marana 11 mi
- Tucson 16 mi
- Casa Grande 58 mi
- San Tan Valley 66 mi
- Queen Creek 71 mi
More about shutters in Casas Adobes
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Casas Adobes’s own figures.
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Price your windows
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