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Homes in Fort Collins
Fort Collins's 74,558 homes are a mix: 52% detached houses, 37% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 8% townhouses and other attached houses.
Much of Fort Collins is new: 37% of homes were built 2000 or later, and only 31% before 1980. The median home dates from 1992. 52% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In Loveland, 9 miles away, 24% of homes are apartments, fewer than here. Nationally, Fort Collins's homes are newer 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.
Shallow openings
37% of homes were built in 2000 or later. Newer windows are often set close to the room side of the wall, and handles, cranks and alarm sensors stick out into the space a louver swings through. Measure the depth to the glass and to anything that sticks out; the designer checks it against the louver size you pick.
Rounded drywall corners
69% of homes here were built from 1980 on, and many houses of that era have rounded ("bullnose") drywall corners around the windows instead of square returns. A shutter can't sit flat against a curve: choose an outside mount with a frame that clears the corner, or an inside mount if the flat part of the opening is deep enough for your louvers.
Apartments and condos
37% 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.
A whole house in Fort Collins
The most common home in Fort Collins has three bedrooms: 31% of homes. 29% have four bedrooms or more, and 14% have one or none. The median home has 5.7 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 0.8% of the median home value here, $577,900 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are larger than in 75% of the 881 US cities we have figures for, so a whole-house order runs to more windows than most.
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 windowsWorking from home
22% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 80% 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.
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.
Fort Collins weather and your shutters
At FT Collins, CO (2 mi away), July averages a high of 87.4°F and January a low of 18.3°F. Average highs reach 85°F from July to August and average lows sit at or below freezing from November to March.
About 29 days a year reach 90°F, 150 nights fall to freezing and 16.5 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around May and least in January.
That's more freezing nights than in 94% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 5 min on the longest day to 9 h 16 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 73° above the horizon in June and 26° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, FT Collins, CO (temperature) and Fort Collins 0.3 Sse, CO (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 45°F | 18.3°F | 0.5 in |
| Feb | 46.8°F | 20.7°F | 0.5 in |
| Mar | 56.4°F | 28.5°F | 1.3 in |
| Apr | 62.5°F | 35.4°F | 2.1 in |
| May | 70.9°F | 44.1°F | 2.9 in |
| Jun | 81.8°F | 52.8°F | 2 in |
| Jul | 87.4°F | 58.7°F | 1.7 in |
| Aug | 85°F | 56.5°F | 1.5 in |
| Sep | 77.4°F | 48°F | 1.4 in |
| Oct | 64.3°F | 36.1°F | 1.3 in |
| Nov | 52.5°F | 26.1°F | 0.8 in |
| Dec | 44°F | 18.3°F | 0.5 in |
Cold winters
With 150 freezing nights a year, warm room air meets cold glass for months. Shutters closed tight overnight hold that air against the window, so condensation can collect on the sill: tilt the louvers open in the morning, and wipe the sill on windows that often run wet.
Fitting them in Fort Collins
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.
More about shutters in Fort Collins
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Fort Collins’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Fort Collins
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Fort Collins 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.
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.