Smaller window in same opening? Ideas please.

[r896neo]

We have switched the layout of our bungalow so that what was a dining room is now a bathroom. The bathroom is at the front of the house and visible to the road (there is some shrubs partially obscuring it)

Obviously it's a huge window with a low cill as you would find in a dining room but this is now a bit much for the bathroom.

I need to replace the cill anyway as it's spalling so I'll move it up a few courses but I want to keep the opening the same width for aesthetics and to avoid needing planning.

My plan was to use a 3 pane window and blank off the middle pane with a solid composite panel but I'm looking for any good examples of how to do this or achieve a similar option.

I would like roughly 1/4 window on the right 2/4 blanked off in the centre and 1/4 window on the left.

Cheers

 

[wessex101]

How about 2 smaller windows either side, block up central panel and clad with cladding tiles, render etc. to make a feature depending on look of bungalow. I quite like the small slate cladding tiles but I hate the composite infill panels you see in PVC doors and windows, cheap and tacky.

 

[r896neo]

Thanks I would rather some sort of timber cladding between but I want to keep the cill the same and unsure how to detail the cladding and looking some examples.

Cheers for reply.

 

[^woody^]

I'm looking for any good examples of how to do this or achieve a similar option

You'll be looking a long time I'll wager. A random panel - of plastic or brick will still look random, unless it fits in with the rest of the bungalow.

 

[r896neo]

Haha you're probably right. I'll put up a photo later and you can try and help me work out how to detail something similar.

 

[catlad]

What about shutters ie. one open one closed but
one permanently closed if that makes sense.

 

[r896neo]

Something like this. I guess it's just a timber frame panel but not sure so was hoping someone had done something similar?

 

[^woody^]

Is that your place or a local juvenile day centre?

That's not something to aspire to surely?

Casements with opaque glazing would be better

 

[r896neo]

No just a local house. It's actually quite nice in the flesh.

I would be covering half of the Gable (which fronts onto the road and contains the window in question) with timber cladding to cover some awful 70s stone cladding.

 

[wessex101]

I like the concept but not sure the black works, rather austere and institutional as Woody said.

If it was a small area I would try something a bit more bold with a bit of colour but if you are doing a larger area then more subtle. Red Cedar seems very popular, almost too popular, I see it everywhere now.