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Rooms with a View

Rooms with a View

March 27, 2015

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Credit: Jerry Sparkman / Sweet Sparkman Architects / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

View how these inspired spaces capture breathtaking views using Marvin Windows and Doors. Can you pick a favorite?

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Casey Key Bay House

Credit: Jerry Sparkman / Sweet Sparkman Architects / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

The owner requested a “house in the trees." The design is intended to evoke an organic architecture that is influenced by and reflective of its site.

Products featured: Round Top Window, Ultimate Casement Window, Sliding Patio Door

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Cedar Hill

Credit: Lars Peterssen & Andrew Edwins, Peterssen / Keller Architecture

Perched atop a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, this new residence adds a modern twist to the classic Shingle style. The commanding views dictated that nearly every room should take advantage of it.

Product featured: Ultimate Casement

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Bragg Hill

Credit: Matthew Moger / Moger Mehrhof Architects / Photographer: Jeffrey Totaro / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

This new, sustainable residence located on the top of a wooded hillside overlooks the Brandywine River on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

Products featured: Ultimate Awning Window, Ultimate Casement Window

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Folly Farm

Credit: Dale Hubbard / Surround Architecture / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

Folly Farm is a contemporary expression of historic, additive farmhouse-style architecture.

Product featured: Swinging French Door

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Golden View Residence

Credit: Steven Bull / Workshop AD / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

Perched above the landscape, the home stretches across the hillside like an extended treehouse. An interior atmosphere of natural lightness was introduced to the home. Surfaces throughout the structure share a common language of articulated cladding with walnut panels, stone and concrete. The result is a dissolved separation of the interior and exterior.

Products featured: Ultimate Awning Window, Ultimate Casement Window

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Gatineau Hills

Credit: Christopher Simmonds Architect Inc. / Christopher Simmonds Architect Inc. / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

This Gatineau Hills home creates a beautiful balance between modern and natural. The natural house design embraces its earthy surroundings while opening the door to a contemporary aesthetic.

Products featured: Ultimate Awning Window, Marvin Sliding Patio Door

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Harbert Residence

Credit: Celeste Robbins / Robbins Architecture Inc. / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

This home that continuously displays Lake Michigan as you move throughout it. From the front door to the upper bedroom suites, the home reminds you why you came to the water’s edge.

Products featured: Ultimate Awning Window, Ultimate Casement Window

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North Woods Lake Home

Credit: Todd Hansen / Albertsson Hansen Architecture, Ltd. / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

This project is a great accomplishment in that it successfully joins a program for generous everyday living to a beautiful site.The house successfully combines a traditional simple gable formed exterior with the goal of open plan living that is modern in sensibility and highly functional.

Products featured: Swinging French Door, Ultimate Casement Window, Ultimate Double Hung Window

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Lyme Guesthouse

Credit: David Mansfield / david Mansfield Architecture & Design pc / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

Conceived initially as a simple pool/guest house, this “modern barn” developed into a serene retreat that takes advantage of its dramatic riverside location. Low maintenance, high life-cycle materials like zinc-magnesium roofing, cedar siding, polished concrete heated flooring, aluminum-clad Marvin wood windows and high-efficiency mechanical systems were used to meet stringent energy and aesthetic requirements.

Products featured: Ultimate Sliding French Door, Ultimate Awning Window, Ultimate Casement Window

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Shingle-Style Sanctuary

Credit: Patrick Ahearn / Patrick Ahearn Architect LLC. / From Marvin windows Architect Challenge Gallery

The two structures built within this new family compound are inspired by the rich history of New England seaside architecture. The concept of implied history gives the illusion that the structures have existed for decades.

Products featured: Ultimate Swinging French Door, Ultimate Double Hung Window

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