Plantation shutters in Newport Beach

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

Newport Beach's 45,185 homes are a mix: 45% detached houses, 36% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 18% townhouses and other attached houses.

The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 47% of homes standing today; 19% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1978. 52% of homes are lived in by their owners.

In nearby Costa Mesa, 4 miles away, 68% of homes were built before 1980, so Newport Beach's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Newport Beach's homes are older than those in 58% 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

47% 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 55% 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

Townhouses

18% of homes share a wall with the next one. Their front windows face the street side by side with the neighbours', so many owners pick a louver size and a white or off-white finish that sit well beside the houses on either side. Bay windows on townhouses usually need a separate panel set for each face.

Bay window shutters

Apartments and condos

36% 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

Newport Beach weather and your shutters

At Newport Beach Harbor, CA (2 mi away), September averages a high of 74.1°F and December a low of 49.8°F. No month averages a high above 85°F or a low below freezing.

About 1 days a year reach 90°F, 0 nights fall to freezing and 9.4 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in July.

Daylight runs from 14 h 23 min on the longest day to 9 h 55 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, Newport Beach Harbor, CA (temperature) and Newport Beach Harbor, CA (precipitation, 2 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	64.5°F	50.4°F	2.2 in
Feb	63.3°F	51°F	2.4 in
Mar	64.7°F	53.1°F	1.3 in
Apr	65.9°F	55.1°F	0.6 in
May	66.7°F	58.3°F	0.2 in
Jun	68.4°F	61.5°F	0.1 in
Jul	71.8°F	64.6°F	0 in
Aug	73.3°F	65.5°F	0 in
Sep	74.1°F	64.1°F	0.1 in
Oct	72.7°F	60.2°F	0.3 in
Nov	68.4°F	54.5°F	0.6 in
Dec	64.1°F	49.8°F	1.6 in

A mild year

Few days here are very hot or very cold, so louvers spend most of the year on everyday work: angling daylight off the TV, giving privacy from the street, and opening wide on a fine morning. That makes louver size more a matter of view than of shade; bigger louvers leave more open glass.

Choosing a louver size

Fitting them in Newport Beach

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 Newport Beach

More about shutters in Newport Beach

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

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.