A home remodel is so exciting that remembering every design aspect can be a challenge. It’s essential to consider your home’s architectural style while pursuing your personal style desires. Your home’s window treatment ideas like window trim play a significant role in the overall effectiveness of your remodel.
The following are some attractive window shape and trim ideas to enhance the look and feel of your home.
1. Accentuate Your Home’s Unique History
The architectural details in historic homes are some of the most interesting. Learn about your home’s history to help ensure your remodel implements the unique styles of the time. For instance, ranch-style homes are known for their uniquely shaped bow and bay windows. Choose a time-appropriate window design to create a more authentically classic feel.
2. Consider Curves
When performing a remodel to create a cozier vibe in your home, curves can help. Harsh lines and angles are quickly taking a backseat to soft edges and smooth arches. Arched doors and windows with matching trim create a more welcoming, intimate setting inside the home.
3. Make It Pop
Have a unique porthole window or other eye-catching window shape in your home? Make it stand out with a unique trim color, tiling or accents. The right trim can turn a unique window into a piece of art.
4. Create a Contrast
Turn your windows into a main feature in your home by selecting a trim color that contrasts with the surroundings. For example, use a light color trim if the surrounding walls are navy blue. Or, choose a matte-black trim in a room with white walls. A contrasting trim will focus the eye on the unique or historic architecture of your windows.
5. Black Frames Are ‘In’
Dark interior design creates a moody ambiance ideal for relaxation. The recent popularity of dark interiors has brought black window trim back into style. If you’re not into midnight black, dark green, maroon and navy blue are other modern design favorites. Match your dark walls with the same color window trim to create a warm ambiance that invites your guests to stay a little longer.
6. Don’t Be Afraid to Be Different
Sure, you’ll probably use standard square and rectangular windows in certain areas of your home. However, a unique window shape can make a room pop while establishing a modern aesthetic. Create the contemporary look you’re seeking with your remodel by choosing large panes of glass, thin window trim and unique shapes such as circles or trapezoids. Don’t be afraid to let your creativity shine through your home’s windows and architecture.
7. Bring the Outdoors In
Homeowners living among a unique landscape can bring the exciting elements of the outdoors or cityscape inside with the right windows. Extra-tall, floor-to-ceiling windows can blur the line between indoors and out, making you feel like you’re outside among the trees, city lights or mountain peaks. Enhance the natural feel of your home interior’s even more by placing greenery or houseplants around the windows, where they can receive plenty of light and thrive.
8. Keep It Natural
Wood window trim creates a warm feel that’s difficult to convey through other materials. Choose a wood finish to bring an element of nature into your home while creating a minimalist atmosphere.
While wood is a more expensive window trim option, modern window companies offer varying options, such as hybrid designs with wooden indoor trim and vinyl or fiberglass exterior trim. Ask the window experts how you can create the aesthetic you’re seeking while choosing an affordable and durable option.
Upgrade Your Home Through Its Windows
Your home’s windows have a significant impact on its interior and exterior appearance and feel. Consider upgrading your windows or trim during your remodel to ensure you create the exact style you desire. An upgrade to newer, higher-quality windows can also make your home more efficient, reducing your electric bill while improving your home’s aesthetic. It’s a win-win redesign situation.
Author bio: Mauricio Jaimes is CEO of Davis Window and Door — a one-stop solution for the perfect replacement, remodeling and new construction of windows and doors.
