A load of antique shutters

Serendipity recently happened to me! A lovely couple, Sue and Frank, found my blog quite by accident. She was getting ready for a huge burning party along with her neighbor. They had many (and I mean a lot) of old shutters to burn.

Sue had seen on my blog, where my young and cute, handy dandy handyman had taken my dream and made it into reality of a shutter headboard.

My master bedroom

Sue then contacted me after realizing that we had actually met five years prior at my hubby's grandma's home and we live within 30 minutes of each other. It was fun talking to Sue because she is a ball of fire and is from England. I adore her accent and her determination.

Sue and Frank are great do-it-yourself kind of people and have completely renovated and added onto their old farmhouse.  So why don't they want these shutter's? Luckily for me, they offered them up for the taking. We don't have a pick-up anymore so we took our CRV and went for a wonderful tour of their renovated home. We brought back all that would fit (24 shutters) and there are probably about that many more left.

Here are Some of the shutters we brought home.

So for now, we are using some as decor behind our swing at the back of our property. Hubby actually thought of this idea without my prodding! Great idea Hon.

And we hinged some together for accent on our front porch.

Isn't the green patina of the shutters looking fine with the red of the brick?

Hydrangea's from the garden

I have this idea for some of them that would require assistance from my young and cute, handy dandy handyman. Some shutters will become bookcases sort of like this...

We so appreciated our day spent with Sue and Frank. Stop by anytime Sue! 

Anyone interested in old shutters?

NOTE: You should be able to click on most of the pictures to enlarge to see further details.
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