Windows For Contemporary Homes Should Promote Indoor Air Quality And Deliver Lots Of Light

Oct. 3, 2016

Redfin offers five tips on how to best integrate windows into contemporary home styles.

Window placement needs to be balanced so that light can reach as far into a house as possible, and proper airflow techniques include stacked ventilation, which creates updrafts that shifts warm air outdoors and away from living areas.

Tip No. 4 is to erase the divide between interior and exterior.

Walls of windows or patio doors can help connect the interior of a home with the immediate surroundings. Thresholds are minimized, rooflines blend into tree lines and outdoor spaces become your expanded living space.

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