California shutters in Mission

California shutters, also called plantation shutters or interior window shutters, made to the measurements you take and shipped to your door in Mission. Fit them yourself, or ask us for an independent installer near you.

Design your shutters

Framed California shutters fitted across a condo window wall, in time-lapse.

Homes in Mission

Mission is a city of houses: of its 14,100 occupied homes, 65% are detached, 8% are semi-detached and row houses and 27% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.

The 1980s and 1990s built 32% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 42% are older than that and 26% newer. Owners live in 77% of homes.

In Abbotsford, 12 km away, 51% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Mission's homes are older than those in 50% of the 167 Canadian cities we have census figures for.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Period of construction and tenure come from the 25% sample; counts are randomly rounded.

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.

Why poplar

Whole-house orders

With 65% 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.

Bay window shutters

Mission weather and your shutters

At Abbotsford (15 km away), August averages a high of 24.8 °C and January a low of 0.6 °C. No month averages a high above 29 °C or a low below freezing.

About 9 days a year top 30 °C, 49 days drop to 0 °C or below and 1,505 mm of precipitation falls, most of it around November and least in July.

Daylight runs from 16 h 14 min on the longest day to 8 h 12 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 64° above the horizon in June and 17° in December.

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Abbotsford. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.

Average daily low to high, by month.

Monthly figures

Monthly climate normals
Month	Average high	Average low	Precipitation
Jan	6.7 °C	0.6 °C	225.6 mm
Feb	8.9 °C	1.3 °C	117.1 mm
Mar	11.4 °C	2.9 °C	145.5 mm
Apr	14.8 °C	5.2 °C	114.4 mm
May	18.8 °C	8.4 °C	94 mm
Jun	21 °C	10.9 °C	69.6 mm
Jul	24.4 °C	12.7 °C	39.2 mm
Aug	24.8 °C	12.6 °C	47.1 mm
Sep	21.4 °C	9.9 °C	77.6 mm
Oct	15 °C	6.4 °C	144.4 mm
Nov	9.5 °C	2.7 °C	233.1 mm
Dec	6.3 °C	0.6 °C	197.3 mm

Humid summers

Hot days and 1,505 mm 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.

Why poplar

Fitting them in Mission

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.

How to install · How to measure

Near Mission

More about shutters in Mission

Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Mission’s own figures.

Price your windows

Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.