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Homes in Lunenburg
Lunenburg is a city of houses: of its 11,500 occupied homes, 92% are detached, 1% are semi-detached and row houses and 2% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
More homes here were built 1960 or earlier than in any later period we count: 32%. Only 16% date from 2001 or later. Owners live in 90% of homes.
Of the 5 Nova Scotia cities we have census figures for, Lunenburg has the second-highest share of older homes and the smallest share of apartments. In Halifax, 64 km away, 40% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Lunenburg's homes are older than those in 81% of the 167 Canadian cities we have census figures for.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Period of construction and tenure come from the 25% sample; counts are randomly rounded.
Plaster walls and deep casings
32% of homes date from 1960 or earlier, when walls were plaster on lath and windows sat in deep wood casings. Plaster cracks if you drive screws carelessly: drill a pilot hole, use fixings made for plaster, and fix into the casing or the framing behind it. A deep casing is good news for an inside mount; measure its depth before you choose a louver size.
Whole-house orders
With 92% 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.
Out-of-square openings
With 60% of homes built in 1980 or earlier, many openings have had decades to settle. Measure each one's width at the top, middle and bottom, and both diagonals. If the diagonals differ by more than about 6 mm, add a mounting frame in the designer, or choose an outside mount so the shutter covers the uneven edges.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 90% 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.
A whole house in Lunenburg
The most common home in Lunenburg has three bedrooms: 47% of homes. 20% have four bedrooms or more, and 6% have one or none. Homes average 6.7 rooms.
Detached houses are the most common kind of home here. Across Canada, the middle home has 6 to 10 windows (NRCan, 2007). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $2,700 to $5,700 CAD. For scale, that's about 1.7% of the median home value here, $250,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Homes here are smaller than in 89% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for: many orders are a few rooms, not a whole house.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (bedrooms, rooms and value from the 25% sample; counts randomly rounded); Natural Resources Canada, Survey of Household Energy Use 2007, Table 4.5a (windows). NRCan SHEU 2007, Table 4.5a
A typical home6–10 windows
All of them shuttered$2,700 to $5,700 CAD
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 windowsOne room at a time
Homes here cost less than in 96% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for, and many owners do a house in stages. Start with the rooms where light and privacy matter most, usually bedrooms and the street-facing front, and keep the same louver size and colour so later rooms match. Your saved design keeps every size.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Lunenburg weather and your shutters
At Bridgewater (19 km away), July averages a high of 25.5 °C and January a low of −10.2 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from November to April.
About 7 days a year top 30 °C, 162 days drop to 0 °C or below and 1,561 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more days at or below freezing than in 72% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 32 min on the longest day to 8 h 50 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 69° above the horizon in June and 22° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Bridgewater. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −0.1 °C | −10.2 °C | 135.5 mm |
| Feb | 1 °C | −9.3 °C | 115.1 mm |
| Mar | 4.9 °C | −5.3 °C | 143.4 mm |
| Apr | 10.8 °C | −0.2 °C | 120.9 mm |
| May | 16.8 °C | 4.7 °C | 137.6 mm |
| Jun | 22.2 °C | 9.7 °C | 104.1 mm |
| Jul | 25.5 °C | 13.3 °C | 87.4 mm |
| Aug | 25.4 °C | 13.2 °C | 107.2 mm |
| Sep | 21.1 °C | 9 °C | 124.9 mm |
| Oct | 14.4 °C | 3.5 °C | 162.2 mm |
| Nov | 8.7 °C | −0.2 °C | 160.1 mm |
| Dec | 3.3 °C | −5.2 °C | 162.8 mm |
Humid summers
Hot days and 1,561 mm 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.
Cold winters
With 162 days at or below freezing 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 Lunenburg
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 Lunenburg
- Halifax 64 km
- East Hants 90 km
More about shutters in Lunenburg
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Lunenburg’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Lunenburg
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Price your windows
Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.