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 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 Camp Pendleton 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 Camp Pendleton 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 Camp Pendleton 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 Camp Pendleton, California Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps and serves as its prime amphibious training base.[1] It is located in Southern California between the cities of Oceanside and San Clemente. The base was established in 1942 to train U.S. Marines for service in World War II. By October 1944, Camp Pendleton was declared as a "permanent installation" and by 1946, it became the home of the 1st Marine Division. It is named after Marine General Joseph Henry Pendleton, who long advocated setting up a West Coast training base for the Marine Corps. Today it is the home to a myriad of Fleet Marine Force units including the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and various training commands. In 1769, a Spaniard by the name of Capt. Gaspar de Portola led an expeditionary force northward from lower California, seeking to establish Franciscan missions throughout California. On July 20 of that same year, the expedition arrived at a location now known as Camp Pendleton, and as it was the holy day St. Margaret, they baptized the land in the name of Santa Margarita. During the next 30 years, 21 missions were established, the most productive one being Mission San Luis Rey, just south of the present-day Camp Pendleton.[2] At that time, San Luis Rey Mission had control over the Santa Margarita area. In 1821, following Mexico’s independence from Spain, the Californios became the new ruling class of California, and many were the first generation descendants of the Portola expedition. The Mexican governor was awarding land grants and ranchos to prominent businessmen, officials and military leaders. In 1841, two brothers by the name of Don Pio and Don Andres Pico became the first private owners of Rancho Santa Margarita. More land was later added to the grant, making the name Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, and that name stayed with the ranch until the Marine Corps acquired it in 1942. In 1863, an Englishman named John Forster (Pio Pico’s brother-in-law) paid off Pico’s gambling debts in return for the deed to the ranch. During his tenure as owner of the ranch, he expanded the ranch house, which was first built in 1827, and developed the rancho into a thriving cattle industry. Forster’s heirs, however, were forced to sell the ranch in 1882 because of a string of bad luck, which included a series of droughts and a fence law that forced Forster to construct fencing around the extensive rancho lands. It was purchased by wealthy cattleman James Flood and managed by Irishman Richard O’Neill who was eventually rewarded for his faithful service with half ownership. Under the guidance of O’Neill’s son, Jerome, the ranch began to net a profit of nearly half a million dollars annually, and the house was modernized and furnished to its present form. World War II In the early ‘40s, both the Army and the Marine Corps were looking for land for a large training base. The Army lost interest in the project, but in February 1942 it was announced that the 122,798 acres (497 km2) of Rancho Santa Margarita y Los Flores was about to be transformed into the largest Marine Corps base in the country.[3] It was named for Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton who had long advocated the establishment of a West Coast training base. Construction began in April but the base was considered a temporary facility so it was built to minimum standards of wood frame construction.[4] After five months of furious building activity, the 9th Marine Regiment, under then Colonel Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., marched from Camp Elliott in San Diego to Camp Pendleton to be the first troops to occupy the new base. On September 25, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially dedicated the base.[5] Korean War through the 1990s During the Korean War, $20 million helped expand and upgrade existing facilities, including the construction of Camp Horno. When Camp Pendleton trained the country's fighting force for the Korean and Vietnam Wars, approximately 200,000 Marines passed through the base on their way to the Far East. Camp Pendleton has continued to grow through renovations, replacing its original tent camps with more than 2,600 buildings and 500 miles of roads. Efforts today continue to preserve the heritage of Camp Pendleton's founders and the Marine Corps' history. The original ranch house has been declared a National Historic Site. The main gate of Camp Pendleton. This is the main road for traffic into the base. This gate has been open and manned by Marines 24 hours a day since 1942. The base's diverse geography, spanning over 125,000 acres (506 km2), plays host to year round training for Marines in addition to all other branches of the U.S. military. Amphibious and sea-to-shore training takes place at several key points along the base's 17 miles (27 km) of coastline. The main base is in the Mainside Complex, at the southeastern end of the base, and the remote northern interior is an impact area. Daytime population is around 100,000. Recruits from nearby Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego spend a month on Pendleton's Edson Range receiving field training, and after graduating from boot camp return to the base's School of Infantry for further training. Camp Pendleton remains the last major undeveloped portion of the Southern California coastline, save for a few small state parks. In this way, it acts as a kind of buffer between Orange County and the Greater Los Angeles Area, and San Diego County. Unit locations (by area) * 11 Area - 1st Marine Division headquarters * 13 Area (Mainside) - Headquarters Area 1st Marine Logistics Group 9th Communications Battalion * 21 Area (Camp Del Mar) - I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion * 22 Area (Camp Chappo) * 23 Area (MCAS Camp Pendleton) - Marine Aircraft Group 39 * 31 Area - MCRD Edson Range, WFTBN * 32 Area - MASS-3, 3rd LAAD, MACS-1 * 33 Area (Camp Margarita) - Headquarters Battalion, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion * 41 Area (Camp Las Flores) - 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, * 43 Area (Camp Las Pulgas) - 11th Marine Regiment to include 5th Battalion 11th Marines * 52 Area (Camp San Onofre) - United States Marine Corps School of Infantry * 53 Area (Camp Horno) - 1st Marine Regiment * 62 Area (Camp San Mateo) - 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion |