In this article, we will learn about the types of modern and traditional wooden windows and their use in today’s homes .
List of topics
- Simple wooden window
- Advantages of using wood for windows
- Disadvantages of using wood for windows
- Modern decorative wooden window
- Decorative traditional wooden window
- decorative colored window (traditional colored window)
- Traditional Chinese knot window
- Chinese stained glass window
- Lattice wooden window
For a long time, one of the main elements in old houses has been a wooden window with colored glass , which over time has been replaced by aluminum windows due to changes in the construction form, and the wooden window has lost its place. But nowadays, many people prefer to use wood as much as possible in the decoration of their home in order to regain the feeling of traditional Iranian style , which has caused the re-construction of wooden windows in a more modern way.
Stay with us in this article to learn more about the types of modern and traditional wooden windows and the use of traditional windows in today’s spaces.
Simple wooden window
Making windows from wood has a long history in the world. Wood has always maintained its position in this industry due to its unique beauty and originality and as the first material used by humans to make windows. In the following, we will mention some of the advantages and disadvantages of this material.
Advantages of using wood for windows
- Wood has a low heat transfer coefficient, it does not transfer heat in summer and cold in winter.
- Wood is a very good sound insulator.
- Wood gives a feeling of intimacy and warmth to your interior.
- The wood is resistant to sunlight, it is also strong against impact and does not fade quickly
- The wood has a natural shape and color and is compatible with the environment.
Disadvantages of using wood for windows
- Natural wood is destroyed by moisture. (which, of course, the thermowood manufacturing technology has been able to fix this defect)
Due to the characteristics of thermowood, using it as a door and window profile outside the building, in addition to its beauty, is also resistant to different weather conditions.
- Natural wood windows are flammable (combined materials have solved this problem.)
- In our country (except the northern parts), wood is limited and not easily available, and as a result, it has a high price.
Using a modern white wooden window on a brick wall
Modern wooden window with new double door technology
The use of wood pattern in the window to convey the feeling of warmth and intimacy to the interior
Modern decorative wooden window
As mentioned, wooden doors and windows have a very beautiful appearance, which is why today designers and the general public are attracted to this type of material for making doors and windows. Unlike traditional examples, modern wooden windows have simple and limited designs, and generally, simple square patterns or shutter designs are used for them as protection.
In many examples, painted wood is used instead of natural wood design.
Modern wooden window with stylish and simple design
Simple division of the modern wooden window and the use of pots in front of the window
The best and newest modern wooden window model
The newest and most stylish modern white wooden window model
The latest modern and luxury wooden window model
Decorative traditional wooden window
All of us have seen traditional wooden doors and windows many times in old houses, and maybe we have beautiful memories of them. Wooden windows with colored glass are considered to be a kind of identity card of authentic and traditional Iranian houses. Even today, to achieve the same nostalgic feeling, they are used in various places such as restaurants, coffee houses and religious places such as mosques and takiyehs.
Beautiful model of old wooden window with colored glass
The best and most popular model of traditional wooden doors and windows
decorative colored window (traditional colored window)
As mentioned earlier, one of the charms of old wooden windows is to decorate them with colored glass to create conceptual shapes that give an impressive and unique effect and life to the interior decoration of your home.
You must have seen the most famous lattice door and window model with colored glass in movies or old houses, these windows are called sashes , which unlike today’s hinged and sliding windows, move vertically and have a wooden latch to close the window. These traditional windows are formed by the combination of wood joinery with the art of designing motifs, Chinese knot, Slimi, Qaware Bari and other authentic elements of architecture, and they fascinate every viewer.
For example, imagine that at 10 in the morning you are in one of the southern rooms of a traditional house with old wooden sash windows, the colored lights that you see on the floor of the room are the result of the light passing through the colored glass of the window.
In this case, is your choice for plain or colored wooden windows?
been an integral element in the architecture of old houses with a central courtyard.
The use of sash windows with beautiful colored glass in traditional Iranian houses
The elegance and beauty of the combination of colored glass and wood in wooden sash windows
Making authentic Iranian traditional wooden windows
The elegance and beautiful details of the wooden window with colored glass
Traditional Chinese knot window
Looking at traditional windows, we find that Iranians have used Chinese knot motifs a lot in the design of their buildings, especially in windows. Chinese knot is actually an art created with cut pieces of wood and colored glass in different and numerous and geometrical unitary shapes that are harmoniously placed together in a specific and repeating frame. This art is mixed and rooted in geometry. .
The combination of wood and colored glass in traditional wooden window tiles
Beautiful and original Chinese knot wooden window
Chinese stained glass window
The best traditional Chinese knot window model with colored glass
Using traditional Iranian wooden windows
Traditional Iranian wooden window with Chinese knot and colored glass
Lattice wooden window
You can get help to have an old wooden window instead of colored glass from simple glass, double and multi-glazed glass or reflex glass. It’s interesting to note that many vintage wooden window patterns don’t require fancy colors or mirrored glass, a skilled designer can turn a simple window into a piece of art by creating a grid pattern.
Lattice wooden window with geometric porcelain knot
- Last word
To have a traditional house with the atmosphere of old houses, we must be well acquainted with their building elements, and definitely one of the integral items in the architecture of these Iranian houses are wooden doors and windows. In the above article, we got acquainted with different forms of modern and traditional wooden windows. Do you agree to use wooden windows for your home?
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