Window Installation, new window design

New window exterior

January view from our new window as the sun is falling

The water view window saga continues. The new window has been set in place, it is a joy. It is a profound joy! The world just opened up to us and we embrace it. Changing the window has brought a downright profound new experience to living here. We moved here to live on the water. We wanted to see the water and the color changes that light brings with each new weather front, and each new moment of the day. An old farmhouse is not the place to do that. The charm of it may indicate that you will have a waterside life, and that is true...but these old houses don't have a lot of windows, nor large energy efficient windows, so you don't see the water from the house. Even if you have a water view from every window, you don't see the water at a glance.

Our prescription for this particular ailment, an ailment I call "water longing", is a giant window. What do we consider giant? Six feet wide and five and half feet tall. Maybe that is not giant to some people, but when we have been squeezing together beside each other to look out  a 22" wide by  30" tall window we think the difference is amazing. The new window just about triples the viewing area, we are thrilled. So far it seems to be a good solution, though the treatment has been quite painful. Mr had just made a concerted effort to finish this room. While we were doing it we didn't have the cash for a new window.  It would have cost anywhere from seven hundred to two thousand dollars to purchase a new window. Because of that capital outlay we postponed the window reno and just finished the room. Now, two months later we found a great buy on a window someone ordered and cancelled, and was reduced to a fraction of the cost of a new one. We bit, so back into the dust and dirt we fell. Ripping out walls that are at least half a century old, and multiple sidings up to one hundred forty years old, puts a lot of dirt and dust into your house. To tell you the truth we forgot how much, but its now done and we are happy about it. Over the next couple of postings I will document the action it took to get it done. For right now the putting back together is proceeding and I am documenting it.