Interior shutters in Ottawa

What interior shutters do in each room of a Ottawa home, from bedrooms on summer nights to living rooms in winter.

Level 1 (flat) moulding, paint stage 1, 3½-inch louvers, tilting open and closed.

Ottawa's seasons, indoors

Indoors, the season shapes how you use each room. Ottawa's warmest month is July, at an average high of 27 °C, and its coldest nights come in January, at an average low of −14.3 °C.

Highs stay at 25 °C or more from July to August: the months when west and south rooms need shade in the afternoon.

Clarence-Rockland, 34 km away, has much the same number of days a year at 30 °C or more (15).

Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population; Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.

Bedrooms on hot summer evenings

With 15 days a year at 30 °C or more, close the louvers on sunny afternoons so the bedroom isn't holding the day's heat at night, then tilt them open for air once the sun is off the glass.

Bedroom shutters

Living rooms on winter evenings

154 nights a year fall at or below 0 °C. Closing the shutters after dark puts a layer of still air between the room and the cold glass; open them again in the morning so the window dries out.

Early light in June

Around the longest day the sun is up for 15 h 40 min here, so east-facing bedrooms get light very early. Full-height panels with the louvers closed keep most of it out; a mounting frame closes the gaps around the edges.

How dark shutters get

Interior shutters room by room in Ottawa
Feature	What matters	What we suggest
Bedroom	Darkness, privacy, airflow	Full-height panels, 3½ or 4½ in louvers
Living room	View, daylight, glare	Wide louvers, or tier-on-tier on the street side
Kitchen	A wipe-clean finish	Painted poplar, café style over the sink
Bathroom	Steam and privacy	Painted poplar with a fan, out of shower spray

Where our shutters fit

Every Shutter Boys shutter is made from solid American poplar to the measurements you take, then shipped to Ottawa for you to fit. Add each room in the designer; every window can have its own style if it needs one.

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