If you have been considering purchasing Home Depot Plantation shutters, rather than buying standard sized plantation shutters from online, you may want to make sure that they have what you are looking for in stock.
Recently it has been difficult, if not impossible, for people to find standard sized plantation shutters at Home depot. Instead they have only been offering custom sizes, which naturally end up costing quite a bit more than the regular, off the shelf plantation shutters that Home Depot was offering before.
They may well make them available again soon, but until such a time as they do you may want to consider looking for alternative suppliers for your shutters. There are quite a few very good online retailers who do have different brands of standard sized shutters available. Many of them will also offer free shipping which is helpful in lowering the costs for your shutters. It will also save you a car trip…saving gas and helping the environment.
A benefit to ordering plantation shutters from Home Depot, however, is that they will come and measure for your blinds, then come back to install them once they are made. That can be a real help, especially if you do not have a ‘do-it-yourself’ enthusiast in your home who could install them. But, if you are able to install the shutters yourself or know of someone who is willing to do this for you, then you may be better off ordering from somewhere else.
Another alternative that some have recommended is to have Home Depot come to measure your windows, and then you buy your custom sized shutters from them but you take care of the installation. They will apparently do this for around $35, which is not bad considering that if there are any mistakes with the measurements they will be responsible for them, not you! As you probably realize, it is almost impossible to return shutters that were improperly measured for if you were the one supplying the measurements.
