White Vinyl Windows With Wood Trim

While most home s exterior accents typically come from doors shutters and landscaping trim is a great way to add a splash of color to a home.

White vinyl windows with wood trim.

I can t get past the stark white vinyl against the dark stained wood trim and i think my only answer is to paint the wood. White trim on a colored body looks like a vinyl sided split level home. I also looked for pictures on the internet and had a hard time finding any. White vinyl against wood doesn t look too great really.

We re also exploring the diy route of course but even those replacements with wood interiors average about 1 000 a window. I know everyone is going to tell me not to paint it but all i can see is the white vinyl. My wife found quite a few examples in the 15 different sales brochures we had been given. I know purchasing the white vinyl windows was a mistake but its too late.

One of my readers melissa huber asked. The replacement windows are white but our window trims match all the wood throughout the house molding chair railing beams crown molding all kitchen and bath cabinets. White window trim with white vinyl window. This combination of a weather resistant vinyl exterior the strength of a solid wood frame and the beauty of a wood interior performs well beyond what vinyl can achieve on its own.

White trim is what you see on just about every house and it looks cheap these days since it is associated with vinyl sided homes. That s because we have an aversion to white composite or vinyl which sweetie pie really doesn t like coupled with our wood interior trim. Typically homeowners in new england tend to prefer white trim around the windows to match the white exterior of the window. My wife finally convinced me that having white vinyl windows with stained wood trim around them wouldn t look bad at all.

In fact she prefers the look over a wood window wood trim. Where andersen has innovated with vinyl is by using it as a protective cladding for its wood core windows. I rarely recommend white windows or white trim for a house unless it is all white or the body is a very pale color.