Black replacement windows in Leonard, OK

What went in

• A black picture window over an awning window that opens.
• Tall, narrow black windows set into the stone walls.
• A wide window upstairs, split in two.

The look

Every frame is black, so each opening reads as a clean dark line in the light stone, from the garden side to the front entry.

The hard part

The house looks like stone from the outside, but the walls are foam blocks filled with concrete, a build often called insulated concrete forms (ICF). There are no wood studs around the openings to fasten a window to, so the crew had to work out its own way to anchor every one. It was a hard job, and the black frames came out sharp against the stone.