Our house was built as a shop in Victorian times - a general store for the village. It hasn't been used as a shop for a number of years. We need to replace the windows to the "shop front" and are unsure how to do it. Originally there were big shop front windows. In the seventies (I guess) they replaced the windows with double glazed units and "filled in" the top two feet or so of the windows, as you will see from the pic. The original window had an ornamental surround and it's this that is making it difficult to decide what to do.
Most of the other windows have been replaced with pvc, although they have at least kept to the style of the remaining two wooden sashes in being one over one and don't look to ghastly. Do we:
1. Put in windows in the style/size of the other windows and fill in the space between windows and ornamental surround
2. Just replace the exisiting d/g units
3. Try to find something that fills the original space in the way that the originals did.
The room is currently used as a dining room, but the big windows do leave us feeling very exposed!
Any thoughts as to what we should do?
Most of the other windows have been replaced with pvc, although they have at least kept to the style of the remaining two wooden sashes in being one over one and don't look to ghastly. Do we:
1. Put in windows in the style/size of the other windows and fill in the space between windows and ornamental surround
2. Just replace the exisiting d/g units
3. Try to find something that fills the original space in the way that the originals did.
The room is currently used as a dining room, but the big windows do leave us feeling very exposed!
Any thoughts as to what we should do?