Your choice of windows should be based on the style of your house.
As glazing got progressively cheaper and easier to work with over the centuries, the size of our windows grew. As a result, those looking to recreate or renovate older period homes and cottages would do well to research the original styles and get a modern window company to replicate where possible.
Small casement windows are associated with cottages, while homes built in the Georgian and early Victorian era are dominated by multi-pane, vertically orientated sliding sash windows.
That all changed with the advent of modernism in the early 20th century. If your home is of that era, or the style in which you are looking to build is contemporary, then simplicity is the watchword: minimising not just the amount of framing (say, on casements) but also the frame width itself.
So, you could consider the more modern the house (or style) the bigger and cleaner the glazing should be…
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