Laowai

We had our house painted last week. The painters took off the shutters to paint them. I've always wondered what the house would look like without it's shutters – they bother me because they are not real shutters. In fact fake shutters really, really annoy me. They are everywhere you look and they take a very practical thing and make it stupidly useless. It's especially annoying after I've just visited Europe, where they have great shutters everywhere you look and they are serving a very useful purpose.

I've been raging against fake shutters for years (ask Brian) and then I was delighted to find the #ShudderSunday hashtag that is put out by my window restoration guru, Scott Sidler. He finds some real doozies – like these:

And yet – my house – I have to admit does look better with its shutters. 

I think they are the right size for the windows – maybe if they were properly installed inside the stone frame part it would at least make sense. But that is beyond me. So I will just live with them.

And to be fair – the Shudder Sunday guy does feature good examples of shutters too – like the one below.

Okay – ranting done.