Retrofit exterior roller shutters invisibly (wood frame construction)

Hello,

we built a single-family house in timber frame construction with facing brickwork in 2013.

Now my wife would like to have exterior roller shutters in the bedrooms/children's rooms. Since the subsequent surface-mounted roller shutters look sh...., cover the brick facing lintel, and it does not look nice if on one gable side one window has a surface-mounted roller shutter and the other does not, a roller shutter box that sits behind the facing lintel/above the window lintel of the timber frame would of course be ideal. Basically like a cassette roller shutter.

Does anyone have experience with this?

Regards

I find these roller shutter boxes simply ugly and we therefore decided against them. You always see the front construction ones, then there are those we had in the house before, which hang INSIDE above the window, which looks ultra-ugly and simply prevents any curtain solution. Then there's just some old box hanging around. And then there's the solution where the box sits directly on the window, which would have meant that the windows become lower. Also ugly. By the way, we also have a timber frame construction. Does it have to be a roller shutter box? How about shutters that run on rails and can be pushed sideways (automatically) in front of the window (some even have adjustable slats). I would even find folding shutters prettier than these old boxes. Another option: those small awnings with a joint, called Markisoletten. Nowadays you can also control everything by remote control.

We need something that makes the rooms pitch dark... That is the main reason. Does this work with the sliding shutters and [Markisoletten]? Interior blinds don’t achieve that and if they do, they are almost as expensive as simple roller shutters and also produce a lot of heat due to the heat buildup between the blind and the windowpane, which we have in the children's room...

In a two-year-old house? Have you ever asked the BU or the house construction company/architect if there is a reasonable solution?

If you want to get new windows that are 30 cm lower, that would be an alternative

I am just wondering why you assume that "new" windows, which I would consider the most practical solution given the OP's specifications, should be lower? Provided, of course, that the OP does not have floor-to-ceiling windows installed Rheinische Grüße

I am just wondering why you assume that "new" windows, which I - given the OP's specifications - would consider the most practical solution, should be lower? Provided, of course, that the OP has not installed floor-to-ceiling windows

So that the roller shutter box still fits on the window without the lintel having to be moved. I wouldn't find that nice. I just wanted to show the OP the possibility.