You don't have to feel trapped or suffocated in a small room. Many homeowners are opening up these rooms with windows. In a cost conscious world, they're doing more with less. Undersized rooms can turn into charming additions to the house if you add the right windows.

Hesitancy. Anxiety. Lack of confidence. These are commonly heard descriptions for today's housing market as well as today's homeowner and homebuyer. The word falling comes up quite a bit too -- falling stocks, falling demand, falling consumer spending. And the downward trend is not quite finished, with a 12% drop in home improvement spending predicted for the whole of 2009 as well.

Shutters can add graciousness and charm to the exterior of almost any type of residential architecture. They can add elegance and remarkable light control flexibility to interior spaces, and also give energy-saving benefits by keeping heat in during cold weather and keeping heat out in hot weather.