Plantation shutters in Citrus Heights

Plantation shutters, also called California shutters or interior window shutters, made to the measurements you take and shipped to your door in Citrus Heights. 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 Citrus Heights

Citrus Heights's 34,946 homes are a mix: 58% detached houses, 27% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 9% townhouses and other attached houses.

The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 59% of homes standing today; 7% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1977. 61% of homes are lived in by their owners.

In Carmichael, 5 miles away, 37% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Citrus Heights's homes are older than those in 66% 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.

Replacement windows

59% of homes went up between 1950 and 1979, and most of them have had their original windows replaced since. A replacement window often sits further into or out of the wall than the old one, so the depth you have for an inside mount may differ from window to window in the same house. Measure every opening rather than copying one.

Choosing a louver size

Out-of-square openings

With 62% of homes built before 1980, many openings have had decades to settle. Measure each one's width at the top, middle and bottom, and both diagonals. If the diagonals differ by more than about ¼ inch, add a mounting frame in the designer, or choose an outside mount so the shutter covers the uneven edges.

How to measure

Manufactured homes

5% of homes are mobile or manufactured homes, whose windows usually sit in thin walls with little depth inside the opening. An outside mount on a frame is the reliable choice there, fixed into the framing around the window rather than the thin wall panel.

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A whole house in Citrus Heights

The most common home in Citrus Heights has three bedrooms: 43% of homes. 17% have four bedrooms or more, and 14% have one or none. The median home has 5.2 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% of the median home value here, $454,600 (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 windows

Working from home

17% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 63% 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.

Choosing a louver size

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.

Citrus Heights weather and your shutters

At Sacramento 5 Ese, CA (12 mi away), July averages a high of 94.4°F and December a low of 40.7°F. Average highs reach 85°F from June to September.

About 90 days a year reach 90°F, 4 nights fall to freezing and 25.5 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around January and least in July.

That's more 90°F days than in 76% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.

Daylight runs from 14 h 53 min on the longest day to 9 h 27 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 75° above the horizon in June and 28° in December.

Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Sacramento 5 Ese, CA (temperature) and Roseville 2.4 SE, CA (precipitation, 4 mi away). 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	56.5°F	41.1°F	4.7 in
Feb	62.2°F	43.7°F	4.7 in
Mar	67.8°F	46.7°F	4.1 in
Apr	73.5°F	49.3°F	1.9 in
May	81.3°F	54°F	1.5 in
Jun	89°F	58.7°F	0.3 in
Jul	94.4°F	61.4°F	0 in
Aug	93.5°F	61°F	0.1 in
Sep	89.3°F	58.8°F	0.2 in
Oct	78.9°F	52.9°F	1.1 in
Nov	65.3°F	45.3°F	2.5 in
Dec	56.4°F	40.7°F	4.4 in

Summer sun

On the 90 days a year above 90°F, closed louvers keep direct sun off the glass and out of the room. In a window that takes afternoon sun, white and light paint finishes stay cooler to the touch than dark stains.

Dry summers, wet winters

Barely any of the year's precipitation falls in June, July and August; most comes in the cool months. Wood takes on moisture in the wet season and gives it back in the dry one, so expect the panels to feel slightly tighter in winter than in summer. Fit them in the season you're in, and leave the hinge screws a quarter turn from tight until they've been through both.

Fitting them in Citrus Heights

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 Citrus Heights

More about shutters in Citrus Heights

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

For designers, contractors and stores in Citrus Heights

Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Citrus Heights can sell or refer Shutter Boys shutters: dealers buy at trade pricing with a protected area; referral partners earn a fee on each client they send. No fee to join.

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Price your windows

Pick your look once, add every window, and see each one drawn and priced. Send it to us and we reply with your quote.