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Consider climate, colour and contemporary new looks
>> from esthetic appeal to functional flair, the importance of choosing the right windows is clear to see. And homeowners have a greater selection than ever before in style, materi- als and technology. Coloured windows are a popular choice, and affordable options are more readily available, notes Jeff Wallace, a sales profes- sional at All Weather Windows.
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‘If you look around, you will certainly find much more of a linear look. There are far fewer shaped units, which would be elliptical windows or even full round windows. That’s mostly gone away with contemporary architecture. It’s a very modular type of look these days’
“We have our aluminum alloy window in our Apex Alloy series. That’s pretty high-end, so we wanted to give people an option to get colour at a bit of a break on the price point. Some manufacturers actually paint windows, but we don’t do that in our climate so we came up with an alternative,”Wallace says.
“We have a new product called renolit that’s anoth- er version of a coloured window. It’s an acrylic wrap baked onto the PvC. It withstands extreme tempera- tures and it’s very durable. you can use it in a renova- tion or a new construction.” And when it comes to decorator colours, window-shoppers can set their sights on a full spectrum of possibilities. “We’re seeing a lot of people wanting black. There are also people look- ing for that commercial-type industrial look, so we have something called a clear anodized look. It’s basically almost like an aluminum look,” Wallace says. “We can achieve that colour with either the alloy or the renolit as well.”
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