Taste is in the mind of the beholder

Tempered glass is expensive
After breaking two windows with pebbles thrown from my mower, I decided to make some protective shutters for grass-cutting days.

But nothing about our house is traditional, so we decided on corrugated metal shutters that rolled on a track.

Front of the house with two shutters installed, plus one shutter (barely visible)
on the side room (right)

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I could have bought the track and the hardware, but why do that when I can spend weeks planning and making them myself. Some of you will  understand. The tracks are made from rusty angle iron and the wheels are from old rolling warehouse ladders. The corrugated metal is—well, just corrugated metal.

These shutters certainly meet my minimum expectations.

Closeup of track and wheels. The axles were made in my shop.

The original sketch and the first of six axles