Custom plantation shutters in Whittier

Whittier is in southeast LA County, about 35 to 40 miles north of our Lake Forest factory on the 5 or the 605 depending on traffic. Whittier has one of the largest historic-home concentrations in LA County after Pasadena. Uptown Whittier and the streets around Whittier College have Craftsman bungalows, Spanish-revival cottages, and Victorian-era homes that need shutters specifically designed for original wood frames and plaster walls.

For the historic Whittier homes, the work is custom mill from the start. Original frames have moved with eighty or a hundred years of seasonal humidity, so panels must be milled to the actual opening, not the nominal opening. We have a frame library that includes the most common Uptown Whittier trim shapes, but most installs still require at least one custom profile.

The newer Whittier neighborhoods (Friendly Hills, Whittwood, Rio Hondo) are the opposite. Consistent openings, standard trim, larger floor plans. Real basswood plantation in white with a 3.5-inch or 4.5-inch louver is the most-asked-for combination.

The drive is long enough that we schedule Whittier installs as full-day jobs. Once measured, most full-home projects ship and install in three to five weeks. The crew that builds the panels installs them, with no third-party handoff.