Luxury New Windows for Your House

Windows have become a very important part of your interior settings, and unlike the past, have developed a market for themselves. They no longer are seen as an addition to doors, since doors have always fascinated home buyers, who look for different aesthetically attractive and novel designs on doors. Windows have also started creating a similar market, with designs and styles that range from the ordinary to the highly stylish, adorning homes, and thereby making it more appealing.

Different window manufactures both from within the country as well as imported products; compete for the attention of a home buyer. Catalogues are abound with designs, and these windows are being made of different materials as well. Metal windows, windows made of wood as well as fiber loaded windows are available in the market. In fact, some companies have started marketing their products using the tag line of eco-friendly products, and energy efficient as well, and claim to help you get energy tax credits; thereby helping you save on energy bills as well as tax bill. When you think about having new windows for your home, as a replacement or for a new house that you are constructing, the different ideas that normally come to your mind are either metal ones or wooden ones. Both have its advantages as well as disadvantages.

While metal windows are more or less safe from weather conditions and do not have to be treated differently to protect from the weather, they tend to look a bit industrial in appearance. They are more suited for offices or factories and tend to look less appealing. Wooden windows on the other hand, are very appealing in nature, and if you opt for a paint finish that shall compliment that wood polish look, the entire interior could look really attractive and aesthetically beautiful. Add to it some fine drapes, and you have a perfect setting. The biggest disadvantage as far as wooden windows are concerned is that they are to be protected from the vagaries of weather, be it too much of rain or too much of sunshine. Also, they tend to more expensive that metal windows as the woodwork that is involved in certain windows cannot be easily done by machines and hence requires expert hand work. This makes it very expensive.

While wooden windows are differentiated by way of designs made on them, metal windows are segregated depending upon the style. Some very common styles are Casement windows, awning windows, double hung or gliding windows, bay windows, picture windows or specialty windows. Of these gliding windows are the most common due to the ease of operation as well as space utility. Casement windows tend to need more space for operation while bay windows are not that easy to maintain, though they do look very majestic and give a great view.