When replacing windows and doors, save money by keeping the openings at the existing standard size.
Designer Arren Williams gave his boxy 1960s-era home a new look with modern energy-efficient windows, plus a new door, house number, mailbox, light, interlocking and low-maintenance grasses. Painting out the front brick and fieldstone façade a dramatic dark grey simplifies the exterior.
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