How a Historical Farmhouse Affects Your Window Choices

If your farmhouse style home is in one of the historical neighborhoods in the Louisville area, you aren’t the only one that has a say in what you do to your home. The Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission, who protects the look of Louisville’s historical neighborhoods, also has a say as to what you can and cannot do to the outside of your home.

The main focus of this commission is that homeowners who live in designated historic neighborhoods are maintaining the historical look of their homes. They do this by requiring that homeowners get pre-approval for all changes that they plan on making to the outside of their home (front and back).Your Farmhouse Window ChoicesYou really don’t have any choices when it comes to the windows on your historical home. You can’t change to vinyl windows, you can’t change the design of the windows to something more modern, and you can’t do anything that would disturb the look of the historical architecture style.But, what you can do is replace your old windows on your historical Farmhouse style home with the same style of windows that were originally installed in your home. The original style of windows for a Farmhouse style home is, of course, the Farmhouse window.Are Farmhouse Windows Available Today?With how old your historical Farmhouse style is you might question if Farmhouse windows are even available any longer.Well, the answer is yes.In fact, the Farmhouse style of window is very popular right now for every type of home. Homeowners are having this style of window installed on modern style homes, as well as older model homes. So you should have no problem finding similar farmhouse windows to match the original ones on your historical home.Will My New Farmhouse Windows Match Exactly?With The Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission having to give the okay on your new windows, you want to make sure that your new windows are just about identical to the old ones. And with all the different variations that are available for Farmhouse windows today there is sure to be a perfect match out there.For more help with getting those old windows on your historic Farmhouse style home replaced with newer ones that can pass the Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission test, contact us today.