Steel windows, alas, were not in our budget. They are the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen and like all things in design, if it’s insanely gorgeous, the price tag will reflect that. I would still LOVE to have a home some day with steel windows. Here are some of my inspiration pictures for the look I wanted. In our three most important areas – dining,īut enough talk, let me show you some pictures. So basically we got the look for way way less.
BLACK STEEL WINDOWS WINDOWS
The rest of the windows in the house are vinyl windows that came with an exterior finish to match the aluminum clad. We used aluminum clad in 3 areas where we really wanted to make the biggest statement our front door, living room slider and game room slider.
Then, ultimately, we found something here in good old Tulsa, Oklahoma that we thought would be a suitable alternative to the steel windows. He sourced doors and windows all over the country trying to find affordable steel windows. He always, always finds a way to make these things happen and trust me, it’s not easy, especially when you live in Oklahoma and you are wanting to go with a modern look. I need to pause this story and say that my husband is FREAKING AMAZING. Then we got to work, and by we, I mean Mike Miller got to work because this is his area. So what did cc+mike do? Well we freaked out a little. I’m also sharing this blog because I have people contact me frequently asking about the look of our home, specifically the black doors and windows, and I want to help anyone, like us, who might want to get that clean, modern look that white walls and black windows provide, but can’t handle the price tag of steel doors and windows. Basically, we thought we had made a huge mistake, especially since the modern design of our home really would not look right with anything but said black windows. The truth is…we were slightly terrified when we realized that we had just designed our entire house around the concept of these modern, black windows that we weren’t going to be able to use. I’m not going to show you all the pretty pictures of our home and not tell you all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into making it and yes, even the mistakes. And the truth is, there are ups and downs in this process of building and moving like we do. Why am I sharing all of this with you? Because if you’ve read my post – The NON Highlight Reel – then you know that this blog is all about keeping it real. But in my defense…it does always work out and what fun would life be if there wasn’t an occasional curve ball? I pick something out with no attention to detail whatsoever then Mike Miller has to figure out the details. The architect planned the entire house around said windows, and now my husband/builder is realizing that we can not do said windows. So basically I gave my husband and architect a bunch of pictures of steel windows, which are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive, without doing my research. This is the point at which reality hit me. Basically there is NO WAY we can afford steel windows and doors on our entire house.” “Well, I just priced out steel windows and they are going to cost more than a house JUST for the windows. “So?” I said, in my signature – what’s your problem, everything is fine, it will all work out voice. “Um, Carissa….did you know that every single picture you showed us of those windows you want are STEEL WINDOWS?” I’ll never forget when I got that phone call from Mike Miller in freak out mode… Our architect followed our instructions and after 8 months of perfecting our floor plan, entirely based on my idea of white walls and black windows and TONS of natural light, we started moving forward with the build.
BLACK STEEL WINDOWS FULL
So when we met with our architect, I came with an arsenal full of pictures of this clean, gorgeous modern design that I loved…white walls, natural wood floors, and black windows. But I knew what I wanted and I wasn’t budging. If only I had a dollar for every time that I heard that question from my husband during the building process. “White walls and black windows? ARE YOU SURE?” he would ask, repeatedly. You should have seen Mike Miller’s face when I told him that I wanted to do white walls and black windows when we were in the design process for this house.
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