Let there be light

I have been too afraid to try and capture the greatness of our windows because I don't know how to do the fancy double exposure trick where you overlay the two pictures. My husband, who does know how to do that trick, said he would photograph our windows for me. But today it was a rather overcast day and I thought it might be dark enough that I would get the window without it being too glared out by sunshine.

These are the windows in Olive's room. All of our windows have beautiful wood trim detailing around them. In her room they were already painted (a nasty 70's yellowish color) so I felt rather justified in painting them white and I think they really stand out well against her cream walls.

It might not look like it because it was such a dark and dreary February day, but usually her room is so bright and airy because of these windows.I love sitting in there. There are pluses to having such huge windows, but it also makes furniture arrangement and wall hangings a little limited.
The best part of these windows are that they are BRAND new. The original windows were painted shut, thus not functional or safe. But, through a special lead based paint government grant we qualified for, the old windows were replaced with energy efficient windows. Every single window in our house was a custom size. And they fit them in perfectly so that all the great would trim was intact. I couldn't be happier with our windows.