Mountain Pine Shutters offers three shutter materials to fit your budget and application:

Basswood
100% basswood is the material used for our premium wood shutter. Basswood is a superior wood because it is among the straightest of hardwoods, with a fine uniform texture and consistent grain. It can be sanded and stained to a smooth finish. It is lightweight yet very strong, with excellent staining properties.

Polywood®
Our premium synthetic shutter is made from Polywood®, an engineered wood substitute. This material is unaffected by moisture and thus will not warp, or cause cracking, chipping or peeling of the finish. We recommend this material in showers, small bathrooms, over kitchen sinks, garages and homes close to the ocean. We also recommend this material for homeowners who enjoy leaving windows open in all weather conditions.

Chinese Gesso
Our value line of shutters are made using gesso-flow coating. This material is a composite of several woods that has basswood-like qualities. Imported from Chinese mills, all components are laminated and finger jointed, resulting in a very straight, strong, and unlikely-to-warp material. This product is an exceptional value.

Mountain Pine Shutters offers finishes in paint and stain, and will custom color match at no additional charge.

Our finishing process is a thirteen-step process in which the raw wood is sanded when milled, sanded again after being cut into components, and sanded by hand before being undercoated. After a series of undercoats, our shutters are completely sanded by hand and machine with a fine grit paper. Then the shutters are painted and proof sanded with an extra-fine grit. Then the final, very thin, series of top-coats are applied. The shutters are then ready for final inspection.

This process, which includes many thin coats of nitrocellulose lacquer and more than five sanding steps between coats, is the same technique used to finish fine furniture such as pianos. The result is the smoothest finish available in the shutter industry.

Mountain Pine Shutters can accommodate practically any specialty shape, including arch top, rake top, octagon, circle, and fan top.

Mountain Pine Shutters’ standard hinge has 2 ½ by 2 ½ inch dimensions and comes in the following finishes:

Powder coated white
Shiny brass
Oil rubbed bronze
Antique brass
Chrome

Mountain Pine Shutters uses a tension system to ensure that the shutter will never become too tight or too loose to operate properly. By a slight turn of the screw, the amount of the louver tension is either increased or decreased.

Mountain Pine Shutters offers a variety of moldings, including variations on widths and detail. This includes bull nose style moldings and array of box outs, including Z-frames for special inside-mount applications. We offer customized L-strips to meet an individual window’s box out needs as well as special posts for corner windows and bay windows.