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Bronze window dilemma

4 years ago

Doing a new built home. Builder has come to me and said my bronze windows (ordered 9/2021) are no longer available in the bronze outside/inside casing. Only bronze on the outside/white on the inside.

Another issue is I have is 12' bronze stackable slider doors, which are from a different company and they AREN'T available bronze outside/white inside. **note above slider are 4 is transom windows.

So builder is trying to get me to bite off on bronze slider and white casing transom windows above look on the inside of my great room.

Your thoughts anyone?


Comments (7)

  • 4 years ago

    If they're clad in metal, they would be paintable, yes?

  • 4 years ago

    Do the Bronze door and window even match? Most manufacturers don't. And absolutely not do you mix a Bronze/Bonze door wit Bronze/White Windows. Honestly that will look like a**.

  • 4 years ago

    It will be fine. Look at photos on Houzz and you'll see you never noticed before. Lots of houses have white windows inside and the sliders are bronze or black, because most sliders are one color inside and out.

    The only slider product I know that can be truly 2 colors is the high end Marvin clad products that can be customized.

    I went with Euro-wall bronze sliders and I had the option of a paint-able wood cladding on the inside ... sounded good ... but it isn't perfect since you can still see the bronze frame. If I had seen one in person before ordering, I probably would have just done the bronze on the inside.

    No different than having all white interior windows and having a wood stained front door ... no one says that looks bad! The bronze sliders will blend in in the same way.

  • 4 years ago

    The only slider product I know that can be truly 2 colors is the high end Marvin clad products that can be customized.

    My PGT sliders are two colors. Bronze exterior and white interior. Same with my windows.

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    4 years ago

    I think you need to do a bit of looking at different window makers to see what you can get . I think bronze inside makes all the rest of the choices inside more complicated and so inned to understand why bronze and not black for instance.

  • 4 years ago

    Thank you for your opinion. The builder doesn’t offer black as a choice.

  • 4 years ago

    Chispa-
    The builder I’m sure won’t offer me a custom made slider. They are made of aluminum so I could get the white out/white in and paint the outside bronze. the slider wouldn’t be directly exposed to weather, 14’ back from yard/house - picture a big U and slider is on the curve portion.
    Just thinking it will have to be white/white slider to match inside. If the slider was iron and black I think possibly it could work with mixed casing colors. 🤔