When it comes to the modern industrial home, there are a few distinct style choices you need to make. Your Michigan home can truly benefit from choosing windows that accentuate the existing industrial stylings in every way, while also maximizing efficiency and functionality for daily living. Here are a few things you should be thinking about:
Clean Lines
The trademark industrial look is created using clean and simple lines in monochromatic colors. Usually, a plain black or gray frame surrounding open glass is the best way to achieve this look. Industrial modern homes typically have oversized windows meant to bring in sunlight and minimize shadows. This is best accomplished by choosing picture windows that have slim frames and no disruptions to the glass surface. Alternatively, casement windows will allow you to open things up without adding the bulk of a double hung window.
Specialty Window Options
Another common trend among industrial modern homes is stacking of specialty windows together to create bold window bays or floor to ceiling window boxes. By choosing windows of various sizes and putting them together to form a large-scale asymmetrical grid, your Michigan home will be transformed.
Windows as Doors
While we’re talking about choosing windows for an industrial look, it is worth mentioning the trends that involve light, airy windows used as doors. For instance, installing a set of french doors or a sliding glass door in place of a heavy wood door is a great way to open things up even more and continue the look from your windows to your patio. Oftentimes these glass doors blend flawlessly into glass side panels.
Grilles or No Grilles?
As you are choosing windows for your Michigan home, you will also be faced with the decision to decorate your windows using grilles between the window panes. In most cases, grilles do not add to the look, which is very minimalist. However, you may decide to do large even grids that run across a wide area to add some visual interest. This is less common with this style, but when done well, it can produce a cool light filtering effect inside your home.
Your Michigan home is just dying to have brand-new windows installed with a modern industrial aesthetic. These windows are the way of the future, and they can boost your resale value down the road. To schedule your free consultation, contact Renewal by Andersen today.
