![]() Masking paper – $4 to protect the stone from overspray ![]() ![]() (6) 3/4”x8’ polystyrene mouldings – $15 these aren’t wood and are made for high-moisture areas Our shopping list for TWO 36x70” windows: Everything else goes a VERY long way, so you won’t have to multiply the full $50 for every two windows you have, especially if you have smaller windows. Note: This post/materials list covers TWO 36x70” windows – After finishing these two windows, the only things I need to re-stock to do the remaining 8 are the polystyrene mouldings, spray paint, and painter’s tape. Y’all, I’m super pumped we were able to figure out a solution for all of us inner-mullion folks who have been dying for a window makeover But that’s a project and post for a different day.) Which, if you’re going to do all that and let the fancy energy-efficient gas out, why not just buy new even more energy-efficient windows that are black? (Which we desperately need to do when we have the funds to do it because ours are the original 1997 windows and they’ve seen better days, functionally speaking. I say near because you could remove the window, delicately hulk rip the two glass pieces apart in both the top and bottom sashes of the window – which would make the special fancy gas trapped inside there for insulation escape, rendering it useless – pull the decorative mullion dividers out, paint them, re-install it all and then rehang the window in the wall, which means insulation and maybe stone work who knows. K, thanks.)ĪKA: Our mullions are pesky little untouchable aesthetic white strips, which makes repainting them near impossible. (And because we’re friends, let’s just agree that this window is super dirty so you can better “see the glass panels” on the outsides with the white mullion trapped inside of it. Here is a before and after because I just can’t wait any longer to show you the transformation. I am so beyond thrilled with how they turned out that I could not wait to share them with you, even though I still need to do the rest of the house – 8 more exteriors and all 10 window interiors! The two eyebrow windows on the front of the house are the ones I tackled first as a test for this makeover and Y’ALL. Something about the thought of high contrast black metal against our creamy white Texas limestone exterior just really speaks to me, and after 8 years in our house, I finally figured out how to make the dream a reality without shelling out thousands upon thousands for 10 all-new windows – two of which have beautiful eyebrow arches, so I’m pretty sure they cost even more than just the standard rectangular ones throughout the rest of the house – by making over our current white aluminum windows. I’ve loved them for years and have wanted them in our home since before they were a “thing”.
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