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Deep Dark Secrets of Brown Vinyl Replacement Windows

Colors come and go with fashions. The all-white walls of the American dream house in the 1980's are now deep greens and deeper crimsons. My neighbor's two-story colonial house, which used to complement my own in subtle ivory, is now lavender. Brown vinyl replacement windows are returning to stores after almost disappearing.

Color choices in vinyl windows have historically been very limited. Most consumers who have chosen vinyl have chosen from the white/off-white/almond spectrum, if you are generous enough to call that a spectrum. Brown, a practical choice for wood homes, made a brief entry onto the spectrum, but problems with its increased heat absorption soon made it clear it was not a good choice. Most manufacturers stopped producing darker colors and retreated to the paler palette.

Vinyl windows maintain, as their primary appeal, their ease of maintenance. They clean up with a wipe and do not require painting, indeed, in most cases will not even tolerate painting. What color there is in vinyl is saturated in the material, so scratches don't show and the color stays uniform. However, if the outside of your house is brown and your windows are bright white, this might not be a factor that persuades you that vinyl's best.

So now chemists are working diligently on heat resistant paints that will work on vinyl windows, and darker colors are starting to be seen again. A few manufacturers have not only brown vinyl replacement windows, but green and red, too. And with a little basic surface preparation, there are vinyl windows you can paint with certain paints. As for my neighbor? Nope. No one yet has made lavender vinyl windows.

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