Comments on: Shutter Madness http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/ Efficiency is the straightest path to hell.* Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: SA http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-6657 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:32:24 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-6657 "Builders believe, rightly, that their buyers expect shutters, and so shutters they deliver." True, kind of. Buyers expect shutters nowadays, but builders are shaping the buyers' expectations. If the stopped to think about it, they might realize that nobody _really_ wants them. And it's not just New England. Builders also believe that buyers want formal dinning rooms that are separated from the kitchen, but families don't eat like that anymore. Speculative development makes for one-size fits all houses... “Builders believe, rightly, that their buyers expect shutters, and so shutters they deliver.”
True, kind of. Buyers expect shutters nowadays, but builders are shaping the buyers’ expectations. If the stopped to think about it, they might realize that nobody _really_ wants them. And it’s not just New England.

Builders also believe that buyers want formal dinning rooms that are separated from the kitchen, but families don’t eat like that anymore. Speculative development makes for one-size fits all houses…

]]> by: Brian http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5476 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:00:41 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5476 That's it. I'm cutting all the collars off my shirts. Minimalist t-shirts for me from now on. That’s it. I’m cutting all the collars off my shirts. Minimalist t-shirts for me from now on.

]]> by: Kate G. http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5310 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:50:53 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5310 I wince at the certainty that some homeowners, probably in Medfield as much as anywhere, have added fake side shutters to their garage doors. I wince at the certainty that some homeowners, probably in Medfield as much as anywhere, have added fake side shutters to their garage doors.

]]> by: Sabina Pade http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5309 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:31:00 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5309 Fake muntins are a similarly displeasing aesthetic abberation - and a pungent reminder of the discomfort many people experience at the thought of living behind large blank sheets of plate glass. Fake muntins are a similarly displeasing aesthetic abberation - and a pungent reminder of the discomfort many people experience at the thought of living behind large blank sheets of plate glass.

]]> by: Ben http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5305 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:16:34 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/26/shutter-madness/#comment-5305 Fake shutters are a pet hate of mine when I see them on houses in the Puget Sound area. It seems like pretty much every house has them. I would have no problem with real shutters. But when they don't close, and are obviously not even large enough to cover the window if they did close, they look like cheap crap to me. Making fake roman columns out of PVC pipe is a close second on this pet hate list. Fake shutters are a pet hate of mine when I see them on houses in the Puget Sound area. It seems like pretty much every house has them.

I would have no problem with real shutters. But when they don’t close, and are obviously not even large enough to cover the window if they did close, they look like cheap crap to me.

Making fake roman columns out of PVC pipe is a close second on this pet hate list.

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