![]() The grilles overlap and run along the edge of the glass, leaving more of the window unobstructed. Prairie-style window grids are quite different from the rectangular, symmetrical look of Craftsman and Colonial styles. Alternatively, some bungalows have Prairie-style grids on their windows. They are either elongated on the top sash or are used in a row of small squares across the top of the window. While many characteristics are the same, the window grille patterns differ. ![]() In window combinations, a transom window with square grilles spans the top of the other windows.Ĭraftsman bungalows are an offshoot of the Arts and Crafts movement. Either four or six rectangular grids are used on the top sash of Craftsman-style windows. But grids are only used on the top sash - the bottom is unobstructed. When the sashes don’t have the same number of grids, the top sash has more grilles than the bottom.Ĭraftsman homes use double-hung windows in a similar fashion. Nine-over-nine windows, where the grid pattern has nine square grids, is also common. Typically, that’s six square or rectangular grids dividing each sash, which is known as a six-over-six window. The grids of Colonial windows are most often the same on both sashes. The sash of double-hung windows provides a similar symmetry to the glass. The home is rectangular and has the same number of windows on both sides of the entrance and both the first and second stories. The most popular styles can be traced back to the architectural era where they originated, but are still commonly found in older homes or new builds of many styles.Ĭolonial style is all about symmetry. You can even customize your own if you’d like. There’s a wide variety of window grid patterns. Even something as seemingly small as a window grille pattern is often associated with a specific style of home or architectural era. Architectural styles are defined by a number of core characteristics. The best case for grids is to match your home’s style. So the decision to go with grids or without them is all about aesthetics. Today, window grids ( also known as grilles or muntins) are largely decorative. This made it possible to ship window panes further without fear of breaking the glass. He wasn’t very big on barriers.Window grids once served a crucial purpose: they held together multi-paned windows. “That’s a very smart, aesthetically minded decision: It doesn’t cut off the view or the light and doesn’t make the space smaller. “Those are open shelves, not cupboards,” Gutmann points out. And in the kitchen, plates and bowls are displayed on shelves that stretch from floor to ceiling: a simple, minimal choice. Windows on the upper level come without fussy panes. Tile on the lower level, stretching from the kitchen into a wood-walled dining room with a working fireplace, is a hand-glazed brick in a pale turquoise. “I always felt the whole time I was there that the whole house had been renovated by people with great aesthetic senses,” says Gutmann. Gutmann says none of the owners seem to have changed much of what Johns had done. Land records seem to show two owners between them and Johns, with Tucker buying from Robbin Novak, and Novak buying from Frederick and Elsie Lowell. You have ambient, bright light all the time,” says Stephanie Gutmann, a writer and editor who bought the house in 2013 for $380,000 with her husband, the author William Tucker. “That whole space has light from every direction. Johns also added an addition to the western side, wedging a family room into the first floor and a studio to the second floor, whose windows roll up into the ceiling like a garage door, opening the room to the trees. He ripped out the first floor’s south-facing wall, replacing it with a grid of windows, whose thick wood frames echo the barn beams. When Johns moved in, he led a renovation to bring in light and add space. “I do most of my work here,” Johns told the paper in 1976. The three would spend time at Johns’s picnic table in the back, according to local paper The Journal News. That community included Johns’s tight circle of friends: John Cage had been visiting since the 1950s as a founder of the nearby experimental-artist colony Gate Hill Cooperative, also known as “The Land.” That project also pulled in Cage’s partner, Merce Cunningham. “There was just a whole artistic community here.” “ probably knew he was talented and was helping him buy the house from her,” says Jody Atkinson, who shares the listing with Matthews. ![]() ![]() Records show that Johns bought the place for $48,000 from Adele Earnest and Cordelia Hamilton, founders of the American Folk Art Museum, who held the mortgage. The former post-and-beam barn was set low into the side of a slope that looks out over a creek. ![]()
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