Window surrounds are traditional decorations that were once a very popular architectural element for decorating the front of a home. Modern architecture has reduced the prevalence of these details for some time and has learned to build without them.
However, you should not abandon traditional window decoration. We will recommend how to choose the appropriate window framing style and what materials are best to use.
Why do you need to highlight a window opening from the outside?
You can seal the joint between the frame and the opening on the street side with sealant. But it is better to further finish this part. This will give an aesthetic, finished look to the house. In addition to being decorative, the framing of window openings also performs a number of other functions. Among them it is worth highlighting the following:
- protection of the joint from moisture;
- hiding wall irregularities;
- creating a smooth transition from the window block to the facade;
- additional insulation, protection from drafts of the room.
Installation features
The tape is applied both before fixing the window block in the opening, and on already installed structures. The first option is more convenient in cases with the installation of external insulation.
Let's consider the algorithm for using tape insulation using the example of gluing pre-compressed sealing tape (PSUL) and internal GPL-S with an additional strip of double-sided tape:
- We prepare the opening. If there is an old window unit, we dismantle it as carefully as possible, without causing unnecessary damage. After dismantling, we level the surfaces adjacent to the future structure and clean them of foreign contaminants.
- We perform a test installation of the block in the opening, temporarily fixing it. This is necessary to mark the edge of contact between the walls and the window, so that when gluing the tape is hidden behind the outer slopes.
- We measure the window block. In accordance with the obtained dimensions, we cut PSUL for gluing on the top and sides of the frame; we prepare diffuse tape to isolate the area where the molding profile is attached.
- We do the same with GPL-S (internal slopes) and butyl rubber tape (for the window sill profile). The material is measured for each side with an allowance of 10 cm to form corner joints.
- We apply the tape, gradually removing the protective layer from the adhesive surface of the PSUL.
We glue GPL-S to the inside of the window profile using a strip of double-sided tape (we do not remove the protective film from the main adhesive surface at this stage). - We fix the window in the opening. We wedge it, and then fasten it with anchors or using mounting plates. We fill the seams with polyurethane foam.
- After complete polymerization of the foam and rough preparation of the inner surface of the walls, we fix GPL-S on them (remove the protective paper and glue it to the slopes).
Window edging on the facade of the house: popular methods
You can decorate the outside of a window in different ways. The modern market offers the use of various materials for this.
Popular options for framing windows on the facade of a house:
- Forged Products;
- mortar stucco;
- brick;
- moldings;
- wooden planks;
- stone.
Each of these design options has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. They must be taken into account in order to make a beautiful and high-quality edging.
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We strive to ensure that our products comply with European quality standards, modern trends in architecture and constantly update our range. In addition to standard decor, you can order decorative stucco molding from foam from us according to individual sketches and sizes.
In an effort to make cooperation beneficial for all clients, we have set affordable prices for our goods and services provided for the development of projects and their implementation when finishing specific buildings. This allows each buyer to receive inexpensive, but aesthetically pleasing and durable stucco molding for windows and other parts of the building.
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Framing the windows of a private house with forging
Forged products always look elegant and beautiful. Using the forging method, you can create any type of structure and place it around the window opening. For example, you can frame a window from the street with forged branches and flowers. Such edging will look beautiful on a house made of any material (foam block, brick, wood).
As a rule, such products are made to order. Mounted with bolts or welding. The advantages of forged edging are high decorativeness, strength and durability. If you make a wide product and install it over the entire opening, then you will be able to ensure the safety of the house.
Paper snowflakes
Snowflakes with paper are the most common way to decorate New Year's windows by hand.
Each of us at least once in childhood.
To make them we need:
- round plate.
- white or colored sheet of paper.
- pencil.
- scissors.
- Toilet soap.
The operating principle is as follows:
On a piece of paper, place a circle at the top of the size you want your snowflake to be. Draw an outline around the plate with a pencil, so that the same circle appears on the paper.
Cleaning the paper will make cutting the snowflakes easier and more sensitive.
- Shorten the circle and cross it in half three times.
- Make a pencil drawing on the resulting cone and then cut off the inside with scissors.
We opened the newspaper and received an original and beautiful snowflake.
If it turns out to be Minty, it can be ironed at a low temperature.
If you make these ornaments from thin porous paper, after cutting the snowflake, it can be painted with watercolors on both sides.
Finishing façade windows with mortar stucco
Stucco molding is often used in interior design. Suitable for exterior and interior use. Made from different components. Gypsum solutions are popular. The composition for facade work must be resistant to temperature changes, moisture, and mechanical damage. Special mixtures are sold in dry form in stores. To prepare the solution, it is important to follow the instructions, otherwise the decorative finish will harden for a long time and will not be durable. The solution is poured into the mold. The hardened product is pulled out. It is attached to the façade wall using special glue.
Stucco molding is used not only to decorate window openings. It is also suitable for decorating corners and the bottom of the house. She is always in fashion. She is able to transform even an old and dilapidated building into a work of art.
Curtains for children's room
The place where a child lives is the territory of play and fairy tales. Here you can do everything that is “not allowed” in a living room or bedroom: contrasting colors, unusual designs, bright children’s curtains with cords, flags, and images of cartoon characters. It is from this cheerful mosaic of color and pattern that a feeling of joy is created. That is why you need to buy curtains for a nursery, focusing on your own imagination and taste. Bows, ties, frills - all this is quite acceptable in the design of a nursery, especially if you are arranging a room for a girl. And the boy will most likely like fabrics with thematic patterns or appliqués
When ordering curtains for a children's room, pay attention to blue-blue and yellow-orange shades. But they cannot be black, gray, or brown - this is contraindicated for the baby
Brick window frames
This finishing option is suitable for a brick house. Decorative facing bricks are used. They can be used to decorate not only a rectangular or square, but also a round, arched opening. Attach the products to the solution.
The following decorative types of brick are suitable for framing a window on the facade:
- Glazed colored. It is highly decorative. May have a matte or glossy finish. This product allows you to add contrast to the finish.
- Clinker relief. Looks decent from the outside of the house. Has a relief surface. It is frost-resistant and durable.
- Decorative silicate. Characterized by high strength and affordable cost.
Construction guidelines
Wood is a material with good natural thermal insulation and vapor permeability. Therefore, no additional thermal insulation is required between the facing layer and the wall. But there must be a gap between the brick and wooden wall. It is enough to leave 4-5 cm so that moisture does not accumulate on the tree and there is space for small temperature expansions. Still, decorative brick and a wooden wall have different properties under temperature changes.
Decorating tips:
- To decorate facades, you can use any facing brick; you can combine decorative finishes of two or more colors.
- In laying the walls of a decorative facade, you can use either ordinary mortar or add dyes to the composition.
- From the outside, the facade should look perfect, so the masonry should be done especially carefully. If you decide to use bricks of different colors when decorating your facade, from which a certain pattern is formed, then you should make a sketch in advance, as in the photo, and very accurately calculate where and in which row the inclusions of a different color will begin and end.
Framing windows on the facade with moldings
Moldings are sometimes used to decorate window openings from the street. This option is well suited for houses designed in a classic style. Molding is a decorative strip, baguette or border that imitates stucco molding or a column. Such products are several centimeters wide. They are usually made from polyurethane. They look elegant. Polyurethane moldings accurately imitate the texture of natural or artificial material. At the same time, they are inexpensive and easy to install. They are attached to the profile or glue.
Framing the facade window with wooden slats
This design option is suitable for private houses designed in a rustic style. Dark brown strips around the perimeter of the window opening against the background of a light, smooth facade look beautiful and stylish. Additionally, you can emphasize the foundation line with a wooden belt for a harmonious look. Wood planks are nailed. They can be painted in the desired color or varnished. Instead of the usual rectangular planks, you can install openwork options. They are easy to make yourself. To do this you need to have wood cutting skills and tools.
The advantage of wood is its flexibility. The material is easy to process, giving it the desired shape. Also, wooden planks are environmentally friendly and safe. But they are characterized by low moisture resistance, susceptibility to rotting, and insect damage. Therefore, they must be treated with protective compounds.
Slope protection
Clinker tiles - durable and reliable
What are the main advantages and disadvantages of this or that slope finishing and how to choose the best option based on the chosen cladding of the cottage.
Option 1 – foam insulation
In the photo there is a beautiful facade with foam trim
Finishing with foam plastic is considered the most inexpensive and reliable option for insulating slopes. But if you calculate the costs, I would not say that this is a budget option. What are the advantages of such thermal insulation:
- The foam trim is lightweight and can be mounted on almost any cladding.
- The polyurethane frame provides additional thermal and waterproofing.
- You can create an original facade decor by painting the trim in any color.
This window frame looks very solid
- Decorative elements are inexpensive, and choosing the shape of the parts allows you to be creative in design.
- This decor is indispensable if, due to the poor architecture of the building, it is necessary to install a false window, foam plastic parts are mounted on any surface, and imitation glass can be made from moisture-resistant mirror film.
This window decoration looks good in combination with decorative plaster, but is completely incompatible with brick, stone or vinyl siding. In my opinion, this option can be chosen for a small country house. Still, foam plastic, no matter how you paint it, remains a budget option and looks the part.
Option 2 – plastic
Facing slopes with sheet plastic
Plastic panels are good for interior cladding of windows, as they are easy to clean, look beautiful and are quite durable. For the external decoration of window openings, you need to choose good quality frost-resistant vinyl siding.
It is not necessary to decorate the entire building with siding; decorative vinyl trims in combination with textured plaster and stone-like decor also look impressive.
You can't skimp on siding. Cheap types of this cladding quickly fade and crack. Slats made in China are especially prone to defects.
If you choose plastic, make sure it’s high quality!
Most often, plastic is chosen for external reinforcement of slopes in apartment buildings, since washing this cladding is not difficult.
If you do not want to make repairs every five years, then it is better to refuse any type of plastic for external window decoration. My observations lead to disappointing conclusions. Cottages with external siding already have a very unsightly appearance after five years.
The material gives unpleasant cracks precisely in the area of window openings. The deformation of the material depends on three reasons:
- natural shrinkage of the building,
- professionalism of the craftsmen,
- the quality of the material itself.
It is also important to note that in regions with winter temperatures below 20 degrees, the instructions do not recommend the use of plastic slats.
Option 3 - universal plaster
Facade decorative plaster
High-quality plastered slopes can be decorated with any decorative elements if desired. With the cost of one linear meter of slopes being 400 rubles, this is the most reliable and durable option:
- the only disadvantage of plastering is that it is difficult to find a professional craftsman who will perform the work efficiently;
- A great advantage is the ability to install an additional layer of foam insulation.
Plaster is a decent way to finish façade windows
Option 4 – metal
The most reliable and durable, but not the cheapest option. Nevertheless, metal-plastic windows and the same platbands look very harmonious. Brown wood-look frames with slopes two shades lighter immediately give the façade a special chic and presentability.
Spectacular design for a classic façade
The only negative is that high-quality thermal insulation and professional installation are required. Installing one window opening will cost about three thousand rubles.
This material is compatible with all decorative finishing options for a cottage, is easy to maintain and install, and does not require frequent expensive repairs.
Option 5 – sandwich panels
Sandwich panels installation diagram
A universal option for a cottage made of stone, brick or foam blocks. Provides high-quality insulation and waterproofing, looks great, is easy to install, and has a service life of more than 30 years.
Another big advantage of such panels is their resistance to temperature changes and lack of deformation. Therefore, this type of window decoration can also be recommended for buildings made of timber.
To install sandwich panels, you need to follow a certain sequence: the panels are mounted around the perimeter of the box on aluminum or PVC profiles. Installation begins from the top profile.
When installing a ventilated façade, the problem of voids under the ebbs often arises. The voids cause noise during rain and deformation of the coating under low tide. How to bypass windows on a ventilated façade correctly?
Installation diagram of a window opening in a ventilated facade
Installation should be carried out with standard units in a certain sequence: the lower connection, then the upper assembly, then the side connections and only after this the connections of the internal and external corners.
To strengthen the space under the flashing, you can replace the tin flashing with a ceramic tile coating or install it on a sheet of moisture-resistant plywood, at least 10 millimeters thick.
Option 6 – tile or stone finish
An effective combination of clinker tiles and decorative plaster
A reliable and durable option for designing slopes. Combines with any type of façade cladding. This finishing allows you to create a spectacular facade at low financial costs.
You should choose only frost-resistant tiles for finishing. Before laying, the slopes must be leveled and plastered at a certain angle.
I like the finishing with clinker tiles to look like wild stone or sandstone. This decor is durable and practical, goes well with plaster and brick, siding and wood.
Stone edging
This framing option should be chosen for brick houses. It will look organic and beautiful. You can use artificial or natural stone. The latest products are more expensive. Granite, gravel, and sandstone are suitable for the external cladding of a window opening. Stone tiles are attached with special glue to a previously leveled and cleaned surface.
The stone is characterized by frost resistance, high strength, heat resistance, and durability. Therefore, a frame made from it will last a long time and maintain an attractive appearance throughout the entire period of use.
Examples of beautiful window framing on the facade with photos
In order for the decoration of the window opening on the outside of the building to look beautiful and harmonious, you need to think carefully about what to make it from. The same material can be used to frame the surface in different ways. Interesting window finishing options on the facade are shown in the photographs below.
Thus, it is recommended to trim the façade windows. This is necessary not only to make the house attractive, but also to protect the joint between the glass unit and the opening. Various materials are suitable for this: brick, stone, moldings, wooden planks, etc. It is important to select and attach the product correctly. Then the frame will look harmonious and last a long time.
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General information
The construction industry is developing very rapidly, and the market for construction and finishing materials is regularly replenished with new high-tech materials, which allow expanding the field of activity of designers and architects.
New and modern finishing materials make it possible to make the framing of your home's windows stylish, original, attractive and durable. For decorative window framing, materials such as brick, natural stone, gypsum, polyurethane panels, wood and other materials can be successfully used. Most often you can see the framing of openings on the facade with brick and wood.
The choice of material directly depends on the goals that the home owner achieves. In addition, it should be remembered that framing with brick, wood, polyurethane slabs and other materials allows you to create an original style of window framing.
For decorative framing of windows, materials such as brick, natural stone, gypsum, wood and other materials can be successfully used.
