How to Make Louvered Doors & Window Shutters

By Chris Baylor, About.com Guide

Once you have all of the louvers in their appropriate slots and the tenons securely into their mortises, clamp the stiles together using some long clamps. Be sure to clean up any glue that squeezes out of the joints.

You should also check the unit for square by cross-measuring the assembly from diagonal to diagonal. If the cross-diagonal measurement across two corners matches the measurement across the other two corners, the unit is square.