What's the best DIY way to get this window look?

Wes121708

This is the window now, two windows with one long sill but want to separate them to be able to get a better look for shutters like below...

flashg67

A wooden frame built onto the gap and sill then  covered with plasterboard/wood/mdf panels  and decorated to your taste looks doable.

Bendy_House

If it's in a bathroom, use wood, otherwise MDF (unless you can get genuinely waterproof MDF for bathrooms).

If you have a bench saw - the machine that cuts long strips- then this is easy. You'd cut cut strips probably ~60mm wide (I'm estimating, for your seemingly narrower window frames), and replicate the framing in that pic. Then you'll need to either cut the 4 narrow strips - 10mm-ish? - or else buy ready made beadings for the vertical feature. Glue in place, holding until set with temp panel pins which are pulled out afterwards (ie don't drive them home.)

You can also get stick-on Georgian bars to complete the window pane look.

Your windows look well set up for this transformation, as it has that large central mullion. It's a nice look

Yours might have to be a slightly smaller scale - eg 3 beads in the centre?

The louvred shutters might possibly need to be bespoke, so potentially the biggest cost. But keep looking for off-the-shelf options - you neffer know. If you can get a close size, then they can be tweaked by either adding strips or trimming them down. If you look at the real example, you'll notice that the shutters are hinged to side-battens, so these can be adjusted in size very easily.

Really nice idea, I think; I hope my next house has a bathroom windows with a large mullion

Bendy_House

If you don't have a bench saw, then measure up what width of flat trim suits your windows, and get a local timber merchants, joiner or B&Q-type place to slice them up for you.

Good chance you'll get off-the-shelf timber in a suitable size, tho'. And you'll likely be better off using timber as well.

Wes121708

Thanks both for your help.
@Bendy_House just the bedroom but looking to get shutters as we have downstairs and when we had them down the company looked at the bedroom window and said aesthetically it won't look as good as we didn't have the central pillar.

Bendy_House

Wes121708 said:

Thanks both for your help.
@Bendy_House just the bedroom but looking to get shutters as we have downstairs and when we had them down the company looked at the bedroom window and said aesthetically it won't look as good as we didn't have the central pillar.

Without a central pillar, I can imagine it won't look as effective as the example in that pic, as it won't have that interesting central section. But, there's no reason why half-louvre doors still cannot be done to your other window, sans mullion.

It's one of these designs that, if you were to get a company in to do it, it would likely cost many £undreds, possibly 4 figures. But if you actually look at the example in that pic, and how little material is involved, it can probably be replicated with £30's worth of timber, and £60's worth of louvre doors.

Probably...