Antique Window Frame

Antique Window Frame

What Type of Antique Windows Do You Need For Your Vintage Home?
By Susan Slobac - Ezinearticles

Antique salvage merchants go to great lengths to stock beautiful and appropriate architectural windows for use in historic homes and other buildings. In many homes built fifty and even one-hundred or more years ago, slapping a modern window into the frame of your vintage home will not keep it looking vintage for long. In order to keep the home or building looking historically accurate, many homeowners seek out salvage windows when they need to replace windows in the vintage home. New home builders who want to achieve a more aged look in a new dwelling can also make great use of window salvage for this effect. The type of antique window you will want to use will depend in part on the architectural style of your home, your budget and your own personal taste.

The Beaux Arts style of architecture, occurring from 1885 to 1930, is seem most prolifically in public buildings, although there were some homes built for the wealthy that favored this ornate style. This type of building might feature decorated wall surfaces, pilasters or columns and masonry walls. The roof might be flat or it could be a mansard roof, double-pitched and hipped. The architectural windows are often rectangular and often feature elaborate ornamentation around the classic windows in the form of rounded window crowns with leaf-motif decorations. The windows are often pedimented and feature decorative brackets. This style of antique window may also be arched.

Another beautiful architectural style is known as French Eclectic, which was in demand from 1915 to 1945. Featuring a distinctive steep and tall pitched roof with walls fronted with brick, stone or stucco, the salvage windows favored in this style of architecture are arched windows, with that arched shape repeated in dormers or doors. The dormers themselves might feature rectangular windows of three panes over four panes, or two over three, or four over four. Circular-shaped architectural windows are also seen in the dormers of this style of architecture.

The price range for window salvage can vary widely and is dependent of several factors. These include the age of the windows, the condition, as well as their rarity. You might expect to pay from six hundred to sixteen hundred or more for a very rare antique window. If you have several architectural windows in your home that you need to replace, you will want to budget for this accordingly.

Antique Window Frame