Plantation shutters in Paradise

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

Apartments outnumber houses in Paradise: 59% of its 94,312 homes are in buildings of two or more units. Detached houses make up 34% and townhouses and other attached houses 5%.

The 1980s and 1990s built 43% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 35% are older than that and 22% newer. The median home dates from 1988. Most homes are rented: owners live in only 42%.

Of the 10 Nevada cities we have census figures for, Paradise has the third-highest share of older homes and the highest share of apartments. In nearby Spring Valley, 7 miles away, 12% of homes were built before 1980, so Paradise's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Paradise's homes are newer than those in 69% 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.

Apartments and condos

59% 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

Rounded drywall corners

65% 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

Renting?

58% of homes are rented. Shutters screw into the window frame or casing, so ask your landlord before you install; taking them down later leaves only screw holes to fill.

Paradise weather and your shutters

At Las Vegas Mccarran AP, NV (2 mi away), July averages a high of 104.5°F and December a low of 39.6°F. Average highs reach 85°F from May to September.

About 137 days a year reach 90°F, 10 nights fall to freezing and 4.2 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in June.

Among the Nevada cities we have climate normals for, Paradise has the least precipitation.

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

Daylight runs from 14 h 37 min on the longest day to 9 h 42 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 Mccarran AP, NV (temperature) and Las Vegas Mccarran AP, NV (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	58.5°F	40.5°F	0.6 in
Feb	62.9°F	44.1°F	0.8 in
Mar	71.1°F	50.5°F	0.4 in
Apr	78.5°F	56.9°F	0.2 in
May	88.5°F	66.1°F	0.1 in
Jun	99.4°F	75.8°F	0 in
Jul	104.5°F	82°F	0.4 in
Aug	102.8°F	80.6°F	0.3 in
Sep	94.9°F	72.4°F	0.3 in
Oct	81.2°F	59.6°F	0.3 in
Nov	67.1°F	47.3°F	0.3 in
Dec	56.9°F	39.6°F	0.5 in

Months of hard sun

With 137 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 Paradise

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 Paradise

More about shutters in Paradise

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

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