![]() ![]() Once you’ve committed to a certain look, finding options that balance curb appeal with functional desires, such as more natural light in certain rooms, becomes an easier journey.įor example, if your home is built in the Tudor style, which features steep pitches and intricate ornamentation, consider windows with classic grids or even decorative detailed glass to bolster the traditional Tudor look and feel. Find your styleĭo research on your home’s style to see what type of window grids will complement its basic architecture. ![]() Otherwise, you’ll have your neighbors commenting on your “interesting” style rather than your beautiful new windows. For most homes, it can be helpful to keep the variety of window grid styles to two or fewer, especially if the windows vary in shape. Occasionally, however, the temptation to customize goes a little haywire, and a single façade ends up with far too many different shapes and grid patterns, such as a few traditional colonial grids, some stained glass, blank panes, and more.įor a cohesive aesthetic, less is more and consistency is valued. Those windows may have different shapes, providing ample opportunity for customization. Keep it simpleĭepending on its style, your home may have a lot of windows across its façade. Check out our tips for choosing the best window grid style for your home. ![]() With so many patterns, combinations, and materials available, it can be difficult to know which type of grid complements the interior and exterior of your home best. I'm looking for a new old bathtub.Window grids are a distinctive way to add personality to your home, and the style of your home can play a major role in the type of grid you select. I hope you salvage and sell the old shutters and fixtures. The furniture and is contemporary so its not a fussy old museum. It was a labor of love, tedious and expensive and there are more compromises but the warmth and patina and quirkiness are still there and to me that is worth the trouble. It functions like a modern home but no one would guess where the additions and deletion are because The scale and materials are the same. I added on a little, but in scale/style with the well researched original. Luckily it was a rare house in nearly original condition. I restored all the original windows trim, kitchen and bathrooms. I restored a house (not even that old by national standards) built in 1924. Original older homes are precious and few. Land value is high here and many beautiful old homes just get leveled. I see your point - Many cities have a lot more old, once beautiful neighborhoods than we have in California. Why move to an old neighborhood if you don't really like old houses? Now there is so little left of the original they don't have a clue what to do. 10 years from now people will say "oh thats a sad 2020's remodel" lets rip it out. Especially the spec guys will come in and add 1500 sq foot box on the back end of a 3500 sq ft home for a stupid "modern extravaganza kitchen" eating up their whole garden and casting a 10 ft shadow on the neighbors yard. ![]() pockmark their ceilings with a blizzard of a thousand can lights and slap in a shiny marble fireplace. I live in an HPOZ and still some people do the most horrid things. Those things will never be replaced correctly. Once you start" reinventing" an old house, removing period detail, moldings, modifying the fenestration, taking off a chimney. I'm no luddite however if I had to gut the place to include every modern thing I would just build a modern home in a new area. Modern conveniences and improvements if they don't ruin the aesthetic of a period home are great. ![]()
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