Retro Windows with a View
Thursday, March 6th, 2008  One of the things we love about our Mid-Century home is these windows. The window on the left is on the east side of the kitchen and looks out over La Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley. It has one of the best views from the house and makes working at the kitchen sink a joy. As you can see, two-thirds of the window is fixed frame with the other one third being a casement window that opens outward. On the inside of the casement there is a built-in screen that rolls up like a roller shade so you can get to the hummingbird feeder. The house has four windows of this design: one in the kitchen, two in the master bedroom, and one in the guest bedroom. We have discovered you can still have this style window custom made and are considering having two made for our home. One would replace the window in the third bed room (Gary’s den). We assume this room originally had a window like the other rooms, but the one in this room has been replaced with an aluminum-frame sliding window. Replacing this window with one in the original style should go a long way toward making the house more consistent with its original design. |
 The guest bedroom in the southwest corner of the house has one of the original windows on the south wall but no window on the west wall. The picture on the left is what the view from a window in that location would look like once it was installed! This view seems way too beautiful to waste with a solid wall. The space is begging for a replacement mid-century modern window as well. |
This is the front view of our new home in La Grande.