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I'm guessing the days before window glass, and/or parts of the country (e.g. northeast) where shutters can protect your window glass from the debris of a nasty
by sliverstorm 10y ago
I'm guessing the days before window glass, and/or parts of the country (e.g. northeast) where shutters can protect your window glass from the debris of a nasty gale.
Many parts of design are inherited from since-abandoned functionality. We have a notion of "how a house is supposed to look", and we were taught that shutters are part of that.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThere is no reason that I can think of to make shutters non-functional. No reason to "abandon" their functionality; functional ones can't be that much more expensive. It makes no sense, like pants with fake pockets. I had shutters when I lived in Europe and they are nice to have. I live in the Northeast and shutters here are almost exclusively fake around here and many make no sense. (like tiny shutters on the side of a large bay window).
- Anasufovic 10y agoIt just provides an accent to an otherwise uniform surface. The fake ones cost much less than real ones. Why wear belts with dresses? Why do cars have racing stripes?