Custom plantation shutters in San Clemente

San Clemente is the southern edge of our regular service area, and the homes we install in here look almost nothing like the inland Orange County stock. Old San Clemente and Southwest San Clemente, the bluffside neighborhoods between the pier and Calafia, have Spanish-revival cottages and 1920s tile-roofed bungalows that need shutters specifically designed for plaster walls and original wood frames. Stock shutters were not built for these openings.

Talega is the opposite: the master-planned newer-build community on the north side of town, with the larger, more consistent floor plans and the kind of glass that demands a wide-louver plantation in white. Forster Ranch and Marblehead fall in between, with a mix of 1980s and 1990s stock that's now coming up on its second window-treatment cycle.

Our recommendation for the bluffside Old SC homes is almost always Polylux or polyresin, not real wood. The marine air and the unfinished interior wood frames make it the safer call. For Talega and the inland tracts, real basswood is the right material and the most-asked-for. We bring samples of both to the in-home consultation, in the louver sizes that fit your actual openings.

San Clemente is 30 minutes from our Lake Forest factory on the 5. We schedule the install for one day, sometimes two if the home is large. Most few-room jobs are done in three or four hours.