Black windows on a traditional house, timeless or trend I'll regret?
My partner wants to swap our white window frames for black when we replace them next spring. I love how black windows look on the modern farmhouses all over my feed, but our house is a fairly traditional red-brick colonial and I'm worried it's a 2020s trend that'll look as dated as brass everything did later.
Has anyone here regretted black exterior windows on a traditional home? How do you judge it before committing thousands of dollars?
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Black windows aren't new, they're how steel windows looked for a century, so on the right house they read as classic, not trendy. The risk on a red-brick colonial isn't the black itself, it's contrast. Stark black against warm red brick can look harsh.
What usually works on brick traditionals is a very dark bronze or charcoal rather than a pure jet black. You keep the crisp dark frame everyone wants without the photo-shoot contrast that ages badly.
Second the bronze-over-pure-black tip. And please don't judge this from your neighbor's house or a feed photo, brick color varies enormously.
Take a straight-on photo of your own front and preview white vs black vs bronze frames before you order. I usually run it through getfacade.ai so the client sees their exact brick with each frame color. Nine times out of ten the bronze quietly wins and saves an expensive regret.
