Shutter BoysPlantation shutters in North Richland Hills
Homes in North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills is a city of houses: of its 28,897 homes, 66% are detached, 5% are townhouses and other attached houses and 27% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 38% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 35% are older than that and 27% newer. The median home dates from 1986. 63% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In Euless, 8 miles away, 48% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, North Richland Hills's homes are newer than those in 70% 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.
Whole-house orders
With 66% 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.
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.
A whole house in North Richland Hills
The most common home in North Richland Hills has three bedrooms: 45% of homes. 24% have four bedrooms or more, and 12% have one or none. The median home has 5.7 rooms.
Detached houses are the most common kind of home here. Across the US, the middle home among detached houses has 10 to 15 windows (EIA, 2020). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $3,200 to $6,000. For scale, that's about 1.3% of the median home value here, $360,700 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 (bedrooms B25041, rooms B25018, value B25077); U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2020, Table HC2.1 (windows). EIA RECS 2020, Table HC2.1
A typical home10–15 windows
All of them shuttered$3,200 to $6,000
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 windowsYoung children at home
6.4% of people in North Richland Hills are under five, more than in 74% of the 881 US cities we have figures for. Shutters have no cords or chains at all: the louvers tilt with a rod or by hand, so there's nothing to hang within a child's reach. US rules for cords on custom blinds and shades are still being rewritten; ours never had any.
Working from home
16% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 60% of the 881 US cities we have figures for. Glare on a screen comes from direct sun and bright sky behind or beside it. Louvers tilted up throw daylight at the ceiling instead, so the room stays bright and the screen stays readable; wider louvers give the clearest view when you open them.
Ages (B01001), working from home (B08301) and value (B25077): U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, 2020–2024. Rankings compare the US cities we have figures for.
North Richland Hills weather and your shutters
At FT Worth Wsfo, TX (5 mi away), July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 35.5°F. Average highs reach 85°F from June to September.
About 97 days a year reach 90°F, 32 nights fall to freezing and 37.7 inches of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more 90°F days than in 81% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 14 h 19 min on the longest day to 9 h 59 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 81° above the horizon in June and 34° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, FT Worth Wsfo, TX (temperature) and Watauga 1.2 Sse, TX (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 55.5°F | 35.5°F | 2.4 in |
| Feb | 59.4°F | 39.2°F | 2.4 in |
| Mar | 67.2°F | 46.9°F | 3.7 in |
| Apr | 74.6°F | 54.2°F | 3.2 in |
| May | 82°F | 63.5°F | 4.1 in |
| Jun | 89.9°F | 71.4°F | 3.9 in |
| Jul | 94°F | 75.2°F | 2.5 in |
| Aug | 94°F | 74.7°F | 2.5 in |
| Sep | 86.7°F | 67.5°F | 3.1 in |
| Oct | 76.7°F | 56.1°F | 4.5 in |
| Nov | 65.3°F | 45.3°F | 2.6 in |
| Dec | 56.7°F | 37.1°F | 2.8 in |
Summer sun
On the 97 days a year above 90°F, closed louvers keep direct sun off the glass and out of the room. In a window that takes afternoon sun, white and light paint finishes stay cooler to the touch than dark stains.
Fitting them in North Richland Hills
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 North Richland Hills
- Euless 8 mi
- Fort Worth 9 mi
- Grapevine 10 mi
- Arlington 12 mi
- Flower Mound 14 mi
- Irving 14 mi
More about shutters in North Richland Hills
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using North Richland Hills’s own figures.
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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.