Plantation shutters in Las Vegas

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

Las Vegas is a city of houses: of its 267,654 homes, 62% are detached, 6% are townhouses and other attached houses and 31% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.

The 1980s and 1990s built 44% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 23% are older than that and 33% newer. The median home dates from 1994. 57% of homes are lived in by their owners.

In nearby Spring Valley, 9 miles away, 12% of homes were built before 1980, so Las Vegas's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Las Vegas's homes are newer than those in 83% 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.

Rounded drywall corners

77% 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.

How to measure

Shallow openings

33% 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.

Choosing a louver size

Whole-house orders

With 62% 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.

Bay window shutters

Las Vegas weather and your shutters

At Las Vegas Air Terminal, NV (4 mi away), July averages a high of 103.8°F and December a low of 38°F. Average highs reach 85°F from May to September.

About 136 days a year reach 90°F, 11 nights fall to freezing and 6 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in June.

That's more 90°F days than in 96% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.

Daylight runs from 14 h 38 min on the longest day to 9 h 41 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 77° above the horizon in June and 30° in December.

Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Las Vegas Air Terminal, NV (temperature) and North Las Vegas 4.4 SW, NV (precipitation, 3 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	58°F	39.4°F	0.6 in
Feb	62.4°F	42.7°F	0.9 in
Mar	70.5°F	48.5°F	0.5 in
Apr	77.9°F	55°F	0.6 in
May	87.8°F	64.2°F	0.2 in
Jun	98.6°F	73.7°F	0.1 in
Jul	103.8°F	79.8°F	0.7 in
Aug	102.1°F	77.5°F	0.4 in
Sep	94.2°F	70.2°F	0.7 in
Oct	80.5°F	57.5°F	0.5 in
Nov	66.8°F	45.5°F	0.3 in
Dec	56.3°F	38°F	0.5 in

Months of hard sun

With 136 days a year above 90°F, sun on the window is the main thing shutters do here. Closed louvers stop direct sun before it reaches the room; angled up, they still let light bounce off the ceiling. On south and west windows, white and light finishes stay cooler and show fading less than dark stains; keep stains for windows out of the afternoon sun.

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Fitting them in Las Vegas

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 Las Vegas

More about shutters in Las Vegas

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