How To Make Interior Shutters

Build shutters with greater detail using a beaded inside side stile and drop front top and bottom rail.

How to make interior shutters. Cut three 1x4s the height you want your shutters and two pieces of 1 4 at 10 1 2 long for each shutter. Nov 30 2016 a step by step tutorial showing how to make indoor wooden shutters. Then the board can be snapped cleanly with a good karate chop.

Subtract the amount you want for a gap at the bottom. Each interior window requires a specific panel configuration. 2 cut the four planks to size.

Measure the width and height of the interior of your window. Begin building them by cutting pieces of 1 by 6 v groove tongue and groove paneling to the height you want the finished shutters. Because of their size it s just a good idea.

Have your birch plywood cut to the proper widths at the lumberyard you bought it from. Divide the number you are left with by 4 this is the width of each of the shutters. Make interior shutters with a notch in the top rail to fit the tilt bar in the closed position.

Interior shutters tend to follow a general pattern having top and bottom rails stiles on the sides louvers or tilting slats and a bar connected to all of the louvers to enable them to all be moved together and at the same angle. Plan to make each of your shutters 1 8 smaller than the opening. How to build sliding interior shutters sliding interior shutters add character and privacy when needed.

Indoor window shutters are often used as an upmarket alternative to normal window coverings such as curtains blinds or drapes. Measure score and cut the fibrous paper facing on both sides of the foam board with a utility knife. Your shutter frame should be about 25 inches or 6 cm narrower than the window frame.