Will your sink be centered on the mullion? Will it bother you to look straight at 6"-7" of tile? I assume that's what you've been used to. I don't think it will look cheap. It might look a little old-fashioned--I can think of a lot of double hung windows that are installed like that, and I don't think the casements will make a difference--they will just be easier to open.

So, it wouldn't bother me--if it looked too blank, I'd hang a rolling pin, or a paper towel rack there, and leave the brick work alone.

Do you mean that the 6-7" mullion is structural, and is part of the outside wall, not a part of the double hung windows? I'm wondering if you could do a center picture window (non-operable), flanked on each side by narrower casements? Something like 15" casement + 24" picture + 15" casement for a 54" total?

When was the house built?

If it will look anything like ours, I think you'll be OK

Mine too. Just measured it & it is a little over 5" of casing which increases to 7" when you add the actual mullion part of the window. Sorry about this picture. It's dark out and my reflection is in the picture if I take it straight on.

romy718, yours are gorgeous!

I measured, and my gap is more like 10+ inches, but that's what our other windows are in the LR/DR/sunroom, so it is what it is, I suppose.

cpartist, the house is 1928 -- curious to know what you'll say based on that. :)

You guys are great -- I have come around to the idea that while it won't be my dream window, it will be fine, and given what we're coming from, it will be better than fine!

Thanks for talking me off the ledge -- turns out that the window has a support beam running through that gap, yadda yadda money yadda yadda.

I'd say you want to keep the mullions and the original look of the house. (I'm an old house lover so I'm a firm believer in not screwing with the design of an old house.)

I am SO thrilled to find this question!!!!!

I bought casement windows for the front of my house. New ones in the boxes, from Craig's List. I currently have these really big, (81w x 67"t) ugly, inefficient windows in the front. They're 3 panels. The right and left slide back and forth over the stationary center window.

When I bought them originally, I WANTED casement, but was pressured into making a decision. Didn't know I wanted casement, because I didn't know what the look was. Well, Let me TELL ya. If the center panel isn't 2ce the size of the side panels, you can only have 1 open at a time, or if you open both they meet in the middle so you have the side windows 1/2 open. Stoooopid. And in no way are they as elegant as casement. I was trying to figure out how to build fake frames over them to look like casement.

I was just looking at those windows this morning, thinking about the size of the mullions. Interestingly, the casements are 25" wide (the panels in right now are 27") and they're the EXACT same height as the current windows. Meant to be.

Thank you for the pictures and the opinions!

romy718, I have windows similar to yours (lovely btw) but 4 across and cannot find a solution to blinds. The 2 inner (stationary) windows have plenty of room for an inside roller shade mount, but the 2 outer (casement - crank) windows have only 1" trim for mounting. So my non-handy husband mounted 2 inside and 2 outside shades. love him for trying but they look really really bad. I want to switch out to top down/bottom up shades but not sure if the 1" trim is enough room to mount. open to other ideas for shades, etc. but the inequity of the inner and outer windows is a challenge. otherwise lovely white trim but must have some coverage as the windows face the street. any ideas??

I was faced with the same issue and went with what smiling mentions.

Catherine Kelly - I'm sorry that I did not respond but I didn't see your post
from Feb 26. I don't have a window treatment on that casement window.

thanks for the response, it is a bugger for sure!

Thanks, lambsear! As it is, I decided to stay with the way it's constructed, because the alternative was to tear apart the wall/support/yadda, and I'm already over budget...now, to wait for the windows!