Guest Blogger: Enhancing your Home with Window Framed Views

 Guest Blogger #400, Entry #996, March 6, 2012

Framed windows can quickly become the element that draws attention to spectacular views captured from your home. These sometimes forgotten design elements can give you precious thinking moments and inspiration while working at your desk facing a home office wood framed window overlooking the immensity of the ocean or they can offer a specific visual framing for whatever scenery lies behind that thin glass separating you from the outside. Carefully chosen colors and textures will create a stunning frame for the amazing views your property and home’s architecture have to offer.

Dark framed windows can create different atmospheres depending on the changing weather – contrasting with the bright sunshine and adding drama in a stormy weather. Once the night has fallen, the house becomes a lighthouse and the dark wood frames transform from elements that enhance the views to the almost undefined margins that shape, together with the glass window, a set of blinds covering the scenery with the occasional light from other homes piercing through the darkness.

In the bedroom – dramatic views at dusk or dawn can help you better connect to the natural environment surrounding your oceanfront property. Using a warm material like wood for framing bedroom views ensures a smooth transition between the scene outside and the interior spaces.

White frames are especially useful in a bright and open part of the house, like a living room with unobstructed views of the water, so that the blue ocean and white window frames can merge and create a bright funnel for natural light.

Relaxing in the tub while you’re gazing over a large stretch of water can be incredible. Just imagine the feeling of being surrounded by warm water while experiencing views of the calm water in the distance. And another moment of the day that will soon become your favorite will be resting on a wood-framed window seat, just as inspiring as the one in the photos.

Even in the case you decided to have a glass wall, frames can be designed to shape a sequence of cut-outs that transform the views into a natural living puzzle when viewed from behind the latticed glass wall.

Fully operable sliding glass doors with wooden frames can become the new way you experience the outside world – while having dinner   under the roof of your house, but in the company of fresh, clean air and astounding views. And when the weather is not that kind, sliding back the framed glass doors gives you the comfort of modern living while still being able to observe nature’s wrath.

Ada Teicu is a freelancer specializing in writing about design, architecture, furniture and adjacent design fields. As a Journalism/ English graduate and self-taught in her area of expertise, Ada loves to share amazing finds with her readers and help construct a better connection between designers and the public.