Design Study

Historic-sensitive window replacement

A conceptual design study — an exploration of direction, not a completed Westmere project.

Keeping a prewar street face — replacement that respects sightlines, proportion, and pattern.

Dark divided-light window bay set into a compact 1920s red-brick Tudor garden wall — representative concept image
Deep plaster window alcove with a black frame, limestone sill, and mature oak view — representative concept image

Prewar streets hold together because the windows agree with each other: divided-lite patterns, deep sills, sashes that sit back in the wall. This study explores replacement that keeps that agreement — matching sightlines and grille patterns, keeping the reveal depth, and choosing colors from the era’s register rather than today’s.

It pairs naturally with the housing stock in Upper Arlington and Bexley, where much of the street’s character lives in its window pattern. The windows service produces it; the discipline is what keeps a new window from reading as an interruption.

Explore this direction for your home.

Tell Westmere what drew you to this study. We will look at your home together and explain what the direction would ask of it.