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Homes in Loveland
Loveland is a city of houses: of its 35,143 homes, 64% are detached, 10% are townhouses and other attached houses and 24% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
Much of Loveland is new: 38% of homes were built 2000 or later, and only 34% before 1980. The median home dates from 1993. 62% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In Fort Collins, 9 miles away, 37% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Loveland's homes are newer than those in 71% 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
38% 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
66% 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.
Whole-house orders
With 64% of homes detached, most orders here cover a whole house: bedrooms, a patio door, perhaps a bay. Put every window in one list in the designer so the louver size and colour match from the street, and if you have an HOA, send it the drawings before you order.
A whole house in Loveland
The most common home in Loveland has three bedrooms: 39% of homes. 27% have four bedrooms or more, and 12% have one or none. The median home has 5.9 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, $479,000 (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 windowsWorking from home
20% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 73% 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.
Loveland weather and your shutters
At Loveland 2N, CO (2 mi away), July averages a high of 88.6°F and January a low of 12.9°F. Average highs reach 85°F from July to August and average lows sit at or below freezing from November to April.
About 38 days a year reach 90°F, 174 nights fall to freezing and 15.6 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around May and least in January.
That's more freezing nights than in any other of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 4 min on the longest day to 9 h 17 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, Loveland 2N, CO (temperature) and Loveland 3.0 Nne, CO (precipitation, 2 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 43.9°F | 12.9°F | 0.4 in |
| Feb | 46.2°F | 15.4°F | 0.5 in |
| Mar | 56.1°F | 23°F | 1.3 in |
| Apr | 62.4°F | 30.6°F | 1.9 in |
| May | 71°F | 39.8°F | 2.8 in |
| Jun | 82.7°F | 49.2°F | 1.6 in |
| Jul | 88.6°F | 55.1°F | 1.7 in |
| Aug | 86.7°F | 52.9°F | 1.5 in |
| Sep | 78.9°F | 44.2°F | 1.5 in |
| Oct | 65.2°F | 32.2°F | 1.2 in |
| Nov | 52.8°F | 21.1°F | 0.7 in |
| Dec | 43.6°F | 13.4°F | 0.5 in |
Cold winters
With 174 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 Loveland
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.
Near Loveland
- Fort Collins 9 mi
- Greeley 16 mi
- Longmont 17 mi
- Boulder 29 mi
- Broomfield 32 mi
- Thornton 35 mi
More about shutters in Loveland
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Loveland’s own figures.
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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.