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It seems lately every home has framed windows and I think it dated as popcorn ceiling.
I do not see the benefit of having window frames. IMO it creates a prison type look and blocks the view since you have to look thru a small box of the window and they are harder to clean.
I removed all the frame inserts in my home and when I sell the new buyers will enjoy they can view front and back yard with a clear view.
Old homes with frames built within the glass are excluded due to the cost of replacment but I rather see the frame inserts removed.
Personal taste. However, if the design period of the home leans more toward an Early American or Victorian design, having the big panes of glass will look odd. If your home appears more contemporary in style, the large panes without mullions might look ok.
I took mine out for the view and kept them around since they were they type you could remove to clean the windows.
Like others i think it comes down to personal preference. I prefer the framed windows while my dh does not like them for the same reasons as you. Save the inserts (if you can) that way if the buyer wants to put them back (if it's possible) in they can.
personaly, I lilke the mullions in windows. they give the house more charm from the outside. If the home is older, you will have a much different look from outside the house without them.
It certainly depends on the style of the house. If someone were to do that to a mid 19th century farmhouse, or a Greene and Greene Craftsman home with their unique windows, it would look very out of place and inappropriate to the house. IMO, it would be a sin.
Repalcing something that's inappropriate for the design is simply a bastardization of the house and it would reflect negatively on the person who ruined the look of the house. It's been done a lot over the years by homeowners without concern for the style and consequences of their actions when they got rid of multi-century-old handmade glass or ruined craftsemen-inspired woodwork.
Eventually, if the home is lucky, it ends up being fixed by later owners with comments about the motivations behind the previous modifications. Face it, the front of your home that includes the windows, is the face that is presented to the world. What it looks like and what it has done to the integrity of the home and its design reflects on the owner, either positively or negatively.
Now, if it were a mid-century modern, perhaps something designed by Eichler as an example, then it needs vast open glass expanses. Anything else just wouldn't look right.
It certainly depends on the style of the house. If someone were to do that to a mid 19th century farmhouse, or a Greene and Greene Craftsman home with their unique windows, it would look very out of place and inappropriate to the house. IMO, it would be a sin.
Repalcing something that's inappropriate for the design is simply a bastardization of the house and it would reflect negatively on the person who ruined the look of the house. It's been done a lot over the years by homeowners without concern for the style and consequences of their actions when they got rid of multi-century-old handmade glass or ruined craftsemen-inspired woodwork.
Eventually, if the home is lucky, it ends up being fixed by later owners with comments about the motivations behind the previous modifications. Face it, the front of your home that includes the windows, is the face that is presented to the world. What it looks like and what it has done to the integrity of the home and its design reflects on the owner, either positively or negatively.
Now, if it were a mid-century modern, perhaps something designed by Eichler as an example, then it needs vast open glass expanses. Anything else just wouldn't look right.
very well said. makes me die a little inside to see a pure white Victorian home, or a craftsman home covered in stucco. just aint right. lol
(Victorian homes of smaller size generaly had three colors, body, trim, and window frame, whle larger ones were extremly elaborate and were called "painted ladys", craftsman homes generaly were covered in natural materials such as wood, shingle, rough stone. searching Green & Green and looking for the gamble house will give you the best of craftsman design)
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