Plantation shutters in Huntersville

Plantation shutters, also called California shutters or interior window shutters, made to the measurements you take and shipped to your door in Huntersville. Fit them yourself, or ask us for an independent installer near you.
Framed California shutters fitted across a condo window wall, in time-lapse.

Homes in Huntersville

Huntersville is a city of houses: of its 25,913 homes, 75% are detached, 6% are townhouses and other attached houses and 18% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.

Much of Huntersville is new: 64% of homes were built 2000 or later, and only 7% before 1980. The median home dates from 2004. Owners live in 72% of homes.

Of the 22 North Carolina cities we have census figures for, Huntersville has some of the newest homes. In Mooresville, 12 miles away, 28% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Huntersville's homes are newer than those in 95% 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

64% 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

Rounded drywall corners

93% 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

Whole-house orders

With 75% 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

Bought to stay

Owners live in 72% of homes, and shutters are usually bought to stay with the house. Poplar takes paint well, so they can be repainted years from now if you change a room's colours. Keep your order list: it records every size if you add a room later.

Why poplar

Huntersville weather and your shutters

At Charlotte Douglas AP, NC (14 mi away), July averages a high of 90.3°F and January a low of 31.8°F. Average highs reach 85°F from June to August and average lows sit at or below freezing in January.

About 49 days a year reach 90°F, 58 nights fall to freezing and 43 inches of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.

Among the North Carolina cities we have climate normals for, Huntersville has the least precipitation.

That's more 90°F days than in 56% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.

Daylight runs from 14 h 33 min on the longest day to 9 h 46 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 78° above the horizon in June and 31° in December.

Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Charlotte Douglas AP, NC (temperature) and MT Holly 4 NE, NC (precipitation, 8 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.

Huntersville: average monthly low and high temperatures30°F50°F70°F90°FJFMAMJJASOND
Average daily low to high, by month.
Monthly figures
Monthly climate normals
MonthAverage highAverage lowPrecipitation
Jan52.3°F31.8°F3.5 in
Feb56.6°F34.9°F3 in
Mar64.2°F41.2°F3.9 in
Apr73.2°F49.1°F3.6 in
May80.1°F58°F3.4 in
Jun86.9°F66.2°F4.1 in
Jul90.3°F69.9°F3.7 in
Aug88.6°F68.7°F4.2 in
Sep82.8°F62.6°F4.1 in
Oct73.3°F50.4°F2.9 in
Nov62.9°F39.8°F3.1 in
Dec54.9°F34.5°F3.5 in

Humid summers

Hot days and 43 inches of precipitation make for heavy summer air. Wood swells when it's humid, so give kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms some air: run the fan after a shower and tilt the louvers open so steam doesn't sit behind them.

Why poplar

Fitting them in Huntersville

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 Huntersville

More about shutters in Huntersville

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

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