Turn of the Century Charm

O'Hair Exteriors™ add personality and warmth to a range of architectural styles, including colonial, spanish, mediterranean, ranch and more. This vintage 1890's style home was clearly missing something when it was completed. By adding our custom designed exterior shutters, the transformation was dramatic.

O'Hair Exteriors™ are the only thermally modified exterior hardwood shutters available anywhere. They are extremely resistant to extremes of weather and humidity and their construction is truly superior. They are also more than a mere decoration. Using our Stabilouver™ tension system they can transition from fixed louvers to fully adjustable, and they can be locked at any angle.

Pattern Horizontals™

O'Hair Pattern Horizontals™ feature louvers that are fully synchronized from top to bottom, precisely following the shape of the window without stair-stepping. They are available with traditional center tilt rods or dual side-mount Horizon Tilt™designs.

A Beautiful Mediterranean Style Villa

A beautiful Mediterranean style home with a trio of massive nine foot tall gates enclosing a patio with three floor-to-ceiling glass double doors and O'Hair Exteriors™ hardwood exterior shutters.

A view of the western tower. The pale, desaturated color of the exterior shutters gives the home a timeless, old-world feel, adding the definitive touch to the design, transforming a building into a home.

The bahama style shutters provide

control of the strong southwestern

light for the staircase within.

Another view of the front entrance with a closeup of the window into the study. The shutters greatly enhance the impression of grace and  casual comfort.

When the sun sets and the lanterns glow, the front of the home seems

to wrap around you, inviting you to view the mysteries within.

With twilight approaching, the exterior and interior lighting provide a feeling of relaxation and comfort.

A Tropical View With Traditional Elegance

An upper deck with a wide-open view of the gulf with privacy provided by O'Hair Exteriors™ .
Offering a full range of light control, this accordion configuration can be folded to provide an unobstructed vista. While available in louver profiles of up to 5", this thin-slat design provides the classic look of the southern coast, yet the thermally modified hardwood construction offers a level of strength and weather-resistance that can be found in no other hardwood shutter.

O'Hair Exteriors™ – the Ultimate Hardwood Exterior Shutter

O'Hair Exteriors™ provide much more than beauty and style. They offer a level of durability and permanence that is unmatched by any other exterior wooden shutter you can buy. They are the only thermally modified exterior hardwood shutter on the market, designed and built with the ideal blend of computer-controlled precision and traditional joinery, and they are reinforced for extra strength.

Our exterior shutters are made in America from genuine American hardwood that is harvested from private forests, following the practices of sustainable forestry. Every individual panel is custom designed to your specifications and custom painted to precisely match your existing trim, using a combination of spectrophotometer instrumentation and decades of color matching experience.

At O'Hair,  quality, precision, strength, durability and beauty are more than something to aspire to. They have been the gold standard on which the O'Hair family has built its reputation for 73 years.

A Well-Rounded View

A panoramic view provides a wonderful feeling of freedom.

When you are curled up in the comfort of your den with a good book and a nice cup of coffee, and you pause to take a sip and you find yourself surrounded by a beautiful yard and a lazy blue sky, that is a feeling that you will want to have every day. When you add to this the beauty, charm, privacy and light control of O'Hair Oceanview™ hardwood shutters, the only thing missing is a bit of soft music.

Inspiring Images

Are you looking for some great ideas for your upcoming home redecorating project? Drop by our grand gallery and take a look at a great selection of interior environments: Beauty, privacy and comfort, elegantly integrated into the existing architecture and décor.

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There is Nothing Like Real O'Hair Quality.

There are a lot of imitators out there, but an O'Hair shutter is the real thing — no faux wood, no plastics or foam cores, and no budget imports, but made in America from genuine American hardwood, featuring rock-solid construction and using the ideal blend of computer controlled precision and traditional reinforced joinery.

If you want a reason why O'Hair is the superior shutter, we can give you Ten Reasons. 

Clear Horizons

Center mounted tilt rods add a feeling of balance and are very popular, but when the windows are facing a truly beautiful view the tilt rod can be visually distracting.

Our Horizon™style features twin tilt rods that are mounted on the outside edges of the lovers. In addition to providing an unobstructed view, the tilt rods provide extra privacy and enhanced light control by blocking light leakage at the sides of the louver.

A Touch of the Exotic

Add a touch of eclectic elegance with just the right shutter. Rather than having a home in which every room is largely the same as every other, when you give each room a distinct personality it adds a refreshing quality as you move about your environment.

In this example a cool-toned monotone scheme is enhanced with the addition of ebony hued Townhouse™ accordion shutters. By adding just the right selection of understated decorative pieces, this turns a rather self-conscious room into an exotic statement with a distinctly European feel.

Privacy, Light Control and Architectural Integration

The precise matching of the shutter design and finish to the existing architecture and décor provides the look of master planning. In these photos we see the seamless integration of light-blocking, dual tilt rod Pattern Horizontal™ shutters into a kitchen and a living room with windows and matching balcony door, thus providing perfect privacy, precise light control for those beautiful hill country sunsets and an unobstructed view.

Looking For Some Inspiration?

Check out our Architecture With Light photo collection on Pinterest. While you're there, click on the O'Hair link at the top left and take a look at our other collections, including photos of the work of O'Hair dealers from around the United States.

Not All Windows Are Created Equal

Every window opening is unique, and this includes sets of seemingly identical openings in the same wall. Your O'Hair dealer measures every opening and designs a shutter or venetian for each individual window, achieving a look of perfect uniformity while concealing any irregularities in the openings. This attention to detail is a basic requirement for achieving perfect integration into the existing architecture. In addition, O'Hair offers the largest number of custom fit options available. For example, in the above design a plain untrimmed opening is enhanced by choosing a shutter frame with integrated trim.

Enclosed Miniblinds and O'Hair Shutters

Miniblinds are a popular solution but they are easily damaged. When they are installed as enclosed miniblinds within two panes of glass and a problem arises (as seen in the uneven settling of the louvers in the left photo), the solution is to replace the window. In contrast, O'Hair shutters provide a clean, elegant and uncluttered look and they swing open for ease of maintenance.

Smooth Curved Panels With No Stair-Stepping

The smooth contours of an O'Hair Pattern Horizontal™ are available in a wide variety of configurations in both curved and angled designs. They are also available in single span "eyebrow" designs and in multi-panel arrangements (above, left).

As seen in the rear view (above, right), the louvers in the curved section operate within scalloped recesses, which avoids the star-stepping that is found in competing designs. Unlike shutters of lesser quality, all of the louvers in a Pattern Horizontal™shutter are linked by a synchronized tilt system, including those at the top of the panel.

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Outdoor Living At Its Best

Outdoor kitchens and living rooms provide a wonderful environment for get-togethers with your friends and neighbors and they are the perfect spot for relaxation after a hard day at the office. By incorporating O'Hair Exteriors™ into the design of your outdoor living environment you add the components of beauty, privacy and breeze control. Contact your local O'Hair dealer to discuss the features and wide range of configurations of our ultra weather-resistant exterior shutters.

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Inner Beauty, Inner Strength

One of the weakest points of a typical shutter is the connection between the louver and the tilt rod. O'Hair shutters use louvers constructed from solid  bookmatched hardwood, which provides plenty of holding power for our premium #304 stainless steel staples. This is not the case with many faux wood louvers, which are often formed from moulded plastic with a core made of foam.

Even so, the weakest point with most louvers is not the louver itself but the tilt rod. The simple fact is that a normal tilt rod simply doesn't have the thickness needed for a staple to get a solid grip. This is not an issue with O'Hair shutters. This is because, rather than using a staple in the tilt rod, we use a solid metal strip that is permanently embedded within a slot in the tilt rod. During assembly the continuous tilt linkage is threaded through the louvers and then bonded to the tilt rod, forming a solid reinforced unit.

At O'Hair we do not see a shutter as a commodity product but as an investment for a homeowner. It is because of this that we construct our shutters, quite literally, to last for generations. This is how we can provide a transferable limited lifetime warranty - a warranty that is good for the life of the home, not just the homeowner.

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A Range of Sizes

O'Hair genuine American hardwood shutters are available in a wide range of louver profiles from 1 1/4" up to an impressive 5". They are custom tailored to fit each individual window, offer custom matched colors and provide a lifetime of reliability. Read about it in our new 30 page O'Hair Millwork virtual brochure.

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