The Biggest, Heaviest Windows to Frame the View in the Living Room at Holiday House

This little cottage keeps getting better and better.

Last year, PJ (with the help of Matt) installed four tall windows in the living room at Holiday House. We knew we wanted just a wall of windows overlooking the mountain, and at the time, we had these four matching windows PJ found on Facebook Marketplace that we thought would be perfect. And they were! They really were. They looked great all lined up perfectly in a row, giving us a good view of the mountain behind the hill.

But this is our special project; our love that we’ve been dreaming about for years, and we didn’t want just good. We wanted great.

So after thinking about it for months, we decided to take out the four windows, put them in the kids’ rooms (two in each), and reframe the living room windows with much larger ones. PJ found another set of windows on Facebook Marketplace (you know the man lives on there, right?) and these were bigger and gave us an all around better view of the mountain. That was that. PJ took out the four windows last week so that the crew could install the new one. I love how there are no panes, just straight glass, almost as if you’re outside and inside at the same time.

So the crew got to work yesterday. It took all five of us to haul it from our metal storage building on the back of a trailer, and we all unloaded it into the house for them to frame it. I am not exaggerating when I say it’s the heaviest window I have ever attempted to lift. We had to set up some kind of rolling mechanism using old PVC pipes in order to get it in the house because there was no way we could lift it, even with the five of us. There were a few slips and audible gasps (on my part, of course), but we got it in just in time for us to race back into town for a special Zoom meeting. Hopefully more on that later ;).

BUT. I love how the new bigger windows will look. They’re a lot more modern compared to the rest of the windows we have in Holiday House, that have panes in them, and I think they will be a gorgeous contrast to the more traditional elements throughout the home.

Even with it just leaning on the 2x4’s, they’re stunning, and I can’t wait to see them installed hopefully today!!!