Something was either made from wood, metal or stone. Materials needed to be cropped or mined and then fashioned into whatever shape wanted to construct the completed product. Today it is much different. New, artificial and composite materials are cropping up everywhere and are turning out to be not only a reasonable alternative to natural materials, but one that makes like a bit less complicated. How Fake Wood is created Fake essentially means that it's not real or real. When referring to wood, it suggests that though it isn't real wood, it appears to be just like it. However, that is where the commonality ends. It may look just like real wood, which is naturally the required look, but it behaves extremely differently. The pretend wood employed in shutters is essentially a polyurethane material. In short it's a truly robust plastic. This compressed, synthetic material is consistent from the interior out. This has great significance when being employed to make shutters. Shutters are usually cut to size to fit into specific window measurements.

Due to this, a raw edge is left on the top or bottom.

With real wood, the cut edge would have to be refinished either painted or stained to match the face of the shutter. With fake wood, the material is similar from the core out.