Interior shutters in Palo Alto

What interior shutters do in each room of a Palo Alto home, from bedrooms on summer nights to living rooms in winter.

Level 1 (flat) moulding, paint stage 1, 3½-inch louvers, tilting open and closed.

Palo Alto's seasons, indoors

Indoors, the season shapes how you use each room. Palo Alto's warmest month is September, at an average high of 79.6°F, and its coldest nights come in December, at an average low of 38.6°F.

Mountain View, 4 miles away, has much the same number of days a year at 90°F or more (9).

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024; NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.

Street-facing rooms

58% of homes are detached houses, where front rooms face the street. Tier-on-tier panels let you close the lower half for privacy and open the top for daylight.

Plantation shutter styles

Children’s rooms

Shutters have no cords. In Canada, corded window coverings have been regulated since May 1, 2021, and in the US the Consumer Product Safety Commission tells families to choose cordless window coverings.

Shutters vs blinds

Room by room in Palo Alto

The median home in Palo Alto has 5.1 rooms, and the most common has four or more bedrooms. Most owners start with the bedrooms, then the rooms that face the street. In Mountain View, 4 miles away, the figure is 3.9 rooms.

35% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in any other of the 881 US cities we have figures for. A home office is often the next room shuttered. In Mountain View, 4 miles away, 31% worked from home, fewer than here.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, 2020–2024; U.S. EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2020 (windows). Prices from our price list.

The bedrooms of a four-bedroom home (4 windows)$1,290 – $1,590

36 × 48 in each, flat moulding, paint stage 1, 3½ in louvers, before tax and shipping.

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Interior shutters room by room in Palo Alto
Feature	What matters	What we suggest
Bedroom	Darkness, privacy, airflow	Full-height panels, 3½ or 4½ in louvers
Living room	View, daylight, glare	Wide louvers, or tier-on-tier on the street side
Kitchen	A wipe-clean finish	Painted poplar, café style over the sink
Bathroom	Steam and privacy	Painted poplar with a fan, out of shower spray

Where our shutters fit

Every Shutter Boys shutter is made from solid American poplar to the measurements you take, then shipped to Palo Alto for you to fit. Add each room in the designer; every window can have its own style if it needs one.

The designer shows the price of each window as you add it, in US dollars.

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