If you’re looking to create your own unique finish for your plantation shutters, you can order your shutters to be manufactured and delivered to you in their ‘natural state’ with no paint or stain applied to the shutter. While the majority of Shutter Store customers select one of our wonderful paints or stains, or opt for a Sherwin Williams custom color for their shutters, the option is there is you prefer to have your plantation shutters delivered for you to treat yourself.
American shutters customers who typically buy unfinished natural wood shutters have a very specific finish they are trying to achieve. Raw wood shutters are most often ordered this way to ensure the shutters match an existing piece of furniture of wood flooring in your home. This could be to create a ‘shabby chic’ distressed white wood shutter or to a rich ‘antiqued cherry’ shutter. Whatever your style, if you would prefer us to deliver your shutters in their raw wood form, just select this option in our shutter shop.
Shutters which are untreated in this way are ideal for natural looking rooms, and can work in your kitchen, lounge or just about anywhere where the finish matches this style, especially if you are after that 'country kitchen' look and style. We've seen customers using these plantation shutters in their sunrooms and conservatories, which is a great way to block out the sun when it's too hot and keep an ambient temperature throughout the year.
As we make our wooden products from both poplar and elm, the effect you can achieve in painting or staining your plantation shutters yourself, is quite different due to the differing grains of the wood. Elm has a much deeper grain structure than poplar and the stain or paint you apply to the wood could look quite different.
We encourage you to order a free wood louver sample and test your stain or paint on the different woods, to make sure you’re happy with the results.
The Shutter Store delivers premium quality wood shutters throughout the USA at prices you won’t believe.
