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I attempted to paint my interior plantation shutters last summer. First, I removed all the shutters from the windows and brought them out to my garage. I was planning on using a good quality latex paint and purchased an assortment of brushes in order to get into all those nooks and crannies of the shutter. I just got through with the first panel when my wife called from the local grocery store stating that she could not get the car started.

When I finally made it back, I couldn't wait to take a look at my work, and it was amazing if I say so myself. The paint was dry by now and the shutter looked 100% better than it did prior to the new paint job. But then I tried to open the shutter. Yikes ! They would not open, in fact they were glued shut so tight I literally had shutter stapels pulling out of the louvers and tilt bar trying to get them to move.

Upon closer inspection I realized that the gap between the louvers and the inside of the frame is so tiny that any accumulation of paint, when dry, will permanently lock the shutter up. Thank goodness my wifes car broke down and saved the rest of my shutters from this same fate.

I was about to give up on this project and hire a pro to do it when I found the info I need on how to paint my platation shutters correctly on http://www.drshutter.com

I never would have realized that using a brush was the wrong way about it. Everything they described was easy to understand and designed for the average homeowner in mind. They also have loads of instructions on how to fix broken plantation shutters.

ps I still had to buy a new shutter to replace the one I ruined.

PJM