Plantation shutters in Hawthorne

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

Apartments outnumber houses in Hawthorne: 66% of its 31,334 homes are in buildings of two or more units. Detached houses make up 27% and townhouses and other attached houses 6%.

The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 55% of homes standing today; 9% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1970. Most homes are rented: owners live in only 27%.

Of the 188 California cities we have census figures for, Hawthorne has the third-highest share of apartments. In Gardena, 2 miles away, 41% of homes are apartments, fewer than here. Nationally, Hawthorne's homes are older than those in 74% 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.

Apartments and condos

66% of homes are in buildings of two or more units. Balcony and patio doors suit bypass or bifold panels rather than hinged ones, which need floor space to swing. Check what your HOA or building allows to show from outside before you order: most rules are about the colour seen through the glass.

Patio door shutters

Renting?

73% of homes are rented. Shutters screw into the window frame or casing, so ask your landlord before you install; taking them down later leaves only screw holes to fill.

Replacement windows

55% 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 68% 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

A whole house in Hawthorne

The most common home in Hawthorne has two bedrooms: 33% of homes. 6% have four bedrooms or more, and 37% have one or none. The median home has 4 rooms.

Apartments are the most common kind of home here. Across the US, the middle home among apartments in buildings of five or more units has 3 to 5 windows (EIA, 2020). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $900 to $2,000. For scale, that's about 0.2% of the median home value here, $863,400 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).

Homes here are smaller than in any other of the 881 US cities we have figures for: many orders are a few rooms, not a whole house.

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 home3–5 windows

All of them shuttered$900 to $2,000

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

Older homes, high values

Owners here value their homes higher than in 91% of the 881 US cities we have figures for, and 68% of homes were built before 1980. If an older house still has good wood shutters, repair them before you replace them; if not, poplar painted to match the trim suits original casings.

Repair or replace old shutters

Young children at home

6.1% of people in Hawthorne are under five, more than in 61% of the 881 US cities we have figures for. Shutters have no cords or chains at all: the louvers tilt with a rod or by hand, so there's nothing to hang within a child's reach. US rules for cords on custom blinds and shades are still being rewritten; ours never had any.

Cordless window coverings and child safety

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.

Hawthorne weather and your shutters

At Hawthorne Muni AP, CA (1 mi away), August averages a high of 78.7°F and December a low of 48.8°F. No month averages a high above 85°F or a low below freezing.

About 9 days a year reach 90°F, 0 nights fall to freezing and 11.9 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in June.

Daylight runs from 14 h 25 min on the longest day to 9 h 54 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 80° above the horizon in June and 33° in December.

Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Hawthorne Muni AP, CA (temperature) and Hawthorne Muni AP, CA (precipitation, 1 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	67.3°F	49.2°F	2.7 in
Feb	66.8°F	50.6°F	3 in
Mar	67.8°F	52.7°F	1.7 in
Apr	69.7°F	54.8°F	0.6 in
May	70.7°F	58.4°F	0.3 in
Jun	73.1°F	61.5°F	0 in
Jul	77.2°F	64.7°F	0 in
Aug	78.7°F	65.3°F	0 in
Sep	78.5°F	64.5°F	0.2 in
Oct	76°F	60.3°F	0.5 in
Nov	71.7°F	53.6°F	0.7 in
Dec	66.4°F	48.8°F	2.2 in

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 Hawthorne

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 Hawthorne

More about shutters in Hawthorne

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

For designers, contractors and stores in Hawthorne

Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Hawthorne 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.