Just had 2 new windows put into front of house building development of garages (Two garages either side have been made into living rooms). The builders tried to get something to match the existing 1930s Crittall windows but you can just tell they're fake and look plastic.
I couldn't afford the real thing - at around £3,000 per new Crittall window and will have to live with what I've not got but am trying to come up with clever design ideas to make the new windows blend in better.
Has anyone done this? One idea I had was to get the builders to put a wooden frame around the windows to match colour and frames of other windows - but would that just look silly? They'd basically have to attach pieces of wood to the brickwork around the exterior of the window.
Only other idea was to put window baskets below each new window and grow lovely pot plants that might obscure the 'newness' of each window and help it to blend it. But might that just draw the eye even more to the new windows?
I'm hoping that some creative and practical people on here can help me or maybe have done something themselves to make new windows 'fit in' better with the old?
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Design tricks to make new windows look like old Crittall windows
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BlogOnTheTyne · 10/10/2013 05:30
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