| Imperial Beach Shutters |
 At French Shutters, you receive custom shutters with the highest quality available in the industry. Whether purchasing shutters, louver, or closet doors, French Shutters will come to your home and provide a free in-house design consultation, offering advice and ideas to maximize the beauty of your window coverings.Serving residents of Imperial Beach for over 30 years, French Shutters excels at bringing your home the highest quality shutters, louvers, and closet doors to give you a beautiful home to live in. Properly installed shutters will decrease your energy bill by thousands of dollars over their lifetime. During the summer season, shutters keep the heat out and reduce air conditioning bills considerably, and likewise in the winter season, the shutters act to keep the cold air out and decrease the amount of heating you have to use. Closing the energy saving shutters in the winter will prevent cold drafts from entering a room. Adjusting the energy saving shutters against the blazing sun during the summer will prevent that radiant heat from raising the temperature in your home, which will cause your air conditioner to work overtime and increase your energy needs. Ecologically speaking, reduction in energy usage is a good idea for the planet as well as for you. By keeping light out, window shutters will greatly increase the comfort of your home, while adding beautiful features to your windows. Window treatments that keep light out reduce the amount of damage to carpets, furniture, and wall adornments by minimizing the amount of sunlight that would fade them. Many Imperial Beach residents have referred us to their friends and family over the years and this is our favorite types of customers. We build relationships with our clients that last lifetimes. The French Shutters company specializes in: • Painted Interior Operable Louvers • Painted Exterior Operable Louvers • Stained Interior Operable Louvers • Interior Closet Doors • Exterior Fixed Louvers • Shutters of all Shapes and Sizes Serving residents of the Imperial Beach community for over 30 years with the finest custom shutters, louvers, and closet doors, French Shutters excels at bringing your home to life and adding that special touch of beauty. Our shutters, louvers, and closet doors are built hand-made, we don’t buy from wholesale companies as our competitors do, and we 100% back all of our products. It’s the French Shutters guarantee. Plantation shutters work well in warmer climates, as they control light and heat gain in the summer, but don’t keep heat in as well. Solid shutters are energy savers in both warm and cold weather. The tighter they are against the window, the more energy savings you’ll have, as you create an insulating air space between the shutter and the window. While you’re planning out your interior decorating project, consider your window treatments not only as part of your home décor, but part of your energy plan. A small investment in the right window treatment can help you save money in the long run. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More about Imperial Beach The city occupies the extreme southwest corner of the continental United States: bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west and Mexico on the south. Known as a biker town for its rough atmosphere and seedy beachfront area throughout the 70s, Imperial Beach has undergone a significant makeover in the last ten years and the city has done much to become more visitor-friendly, commercially viable and overall more aesthetically pleasing. However, the city is still a low-key beach community. For years the city was controlled by pro-growth elected officials, but over the years environmentalists and other activists helped elect a group of smart-growth and no-growth officials. The City of Imperial Beach is now implementing an ambitious community redevelopment plan to improve the badly developed commercial corridor along Palm Avenue and Seacoast Drive. Imperial Beach was the location of fierce environmental battles in the 1970s and 1980s over plans to develop the Tijuana Estuary and build a breakwater to control beach erosion. Former Mayor Brian Bilbray, who later became a U.S. Congressman, lost both battles. The Tijuana Estuary is now a National Estuarine Research Reserve and State Park. The cessation of plans to build the breakwater was officially the first major victory of the then fledgling Surfrider Foundation, now an international organization with 45,000-members. While the International Boundary and Water Commission wastewater plant completed in 1999 has greatly improved water quality during dry weather, the biggest obstacle to the renewal of Imperial Beach is the continued pollution of the Tijuana River and beach closures just south of the city during wet weather. Surfing is popular in Imperial Beach with activities concentrated north and south of the Imperial Beach Pier and in front of the Tijuana Estuary at the famed Boca Rio beachbreak. The Tijuana Sloughs, a fabled big-wave surf spot is now almost unrideable due to raw toxic sewage that flows into the break from the Tijuana River. WiLDCOAST, a coastal conservation organization based in Imperial Beach, launched a grassroots "Clean Water Now" campaign to support a comprehensive plan to clean up the Tijuana River and reduce beach closures along the U.S.-Mexico border. |