A beautiful and unusual house is a dream for which many aspire. One of the options to make your home different from others is to use panoramic glazing. A house with panoramic windows looks different. Even simple in architecture, it is unusual, and if there are also unusual details, it is clearly driven from the general row.

What is panoramic glazing

Panoramic windows are those that occupy a large area and, as a rule, take up the entire space from floor to ceiling in height. This type of glazing requires accurate calculation and a well-thought-out design solution. Large windows are a large window flight, which means that a powerful beam is needed, which will serve as a support for the roof and walls of the second or third floor (if any).

Standard solutions when designing houses with large windows are practically inapplicable, since each case is unique and requires its own solution. Each house with panoramic windows is an individual project, and it costs a lot of money.

If there is no opportunity to order an individual project, you may be able to find a ready-made one that basically suits you. It is better to use it in its entirety, without major changes. You can only make adjustments that do not affect the supporting structure. Only the position of the non-bearing partitions can be changed. Even the position of doors and windows in supporting structures without recalculation is undesirable to touch - the aftereffects can be unpredictable.

Features, advantages and disadvantages

The house with panoramic windows looks unusual and stylish. And this is exactly what attracts in such buildings. So a memorable look is the first of the advantages.

Where can you see

In private houses, panoramic glazing is made in living rooms, less often in bedrooms. Sometimes, in this way, an open veranda is turned into a covered one, sometimes - they make a winter garden out of a room. Another possible application is to make one of the walls of the pool glass. In general, there are many applications and they are non-standard and interesting.

Balcony with panoramic glazing - residents of high-rise buildings have an excellent view

In apartment buildings, balconies or loggias are decorated with panoramic windows. Much less often in high-rise buildings there are large windows in residential premises, but there are also such houses. True, in our country it is extremely rare.

Advantages and disadvantages

If you are thinking that it would be nice to have panoramic glazing in your house, consider the following features:

In general, there are advantages and disadvantages of panoramic glazing in the house. When planning to build a house with panoramic windows, take into account such an important factor as the scenic beauty of the landscape that you can see. If this is a neighbor's fence, the costs of panoramic glazing will hardly be justified ...

House with panoramic windows: features

There are also some features that cannot be attributed to advantages or disadvantages. Firstly, glass in panoramic windows can be with imposts (crossbars) or without. Floor-to-ceiling solid glass looks stylish, but is expensive due to the increased demands placed on it.

Split windows look different, but no worse. The cost of such panoramic glazing is lower, but the division into parts by imposts must be supported by the rest of the windows (of normal size). This is worth remembering.

When planning a site, a house with panoramic windows in our latitudes is recommended to be located so that a large glazing area faces south with an accuracy of ± 30 °. In this case, the adjacent room will be light and warm. But there is another drawback - walls, floor, furniture will fade. One solution is to pick up colors where the color loss is not so noticeable. The second way out is to turn the house so that the panoramic windows face east or west. This is a permissible position, in which there is enough light, and it does not pour through the windows all day. In general, it's up to you to decide.

In order to prevent the cold from the windows in winter, heating devices are placed under them, which create a thermal curtain. You cannot install traditional radiators here, but you can install built-in (floor) radiators or convectors. They can be electric or part of a water heating system, but their installation is a complicated thing, and the price for them is considerable.

Types of panoramic windows

Panoramic windows are of two types: cold and warm. Cold glazing is used on unheated balconies, loggias, terraces. They are framed or frameless. Frameless ones are simply thick glasses of a certain size that fit snugly against one another. Panoramic glazing with frames is what we are used to. Wooden or plastic frame, into which the glasses are inserted. But cold glazing is rarely installed, much more often they still use windows that can protect from cold and heat.

Most often, plastic or metal-plastic windows are installed today. Depending on the climate, you can select the required number of cameras, the type of glass (tinted, mirror-coated, energy-saving, reinforced and even armored). As a result, with proper installation, you can get windows that, in terms of their thermal characteristics, are no worse than the adjacent walls.

A house with panoramic windows can have windows with different types of opening:

Using doors of various opening methods, you can achieve the functionality that you need. Wooden houses with panoramic windows are rare. The fact is that the wood is constantly changing its size and ordinary windows are placed in special casing boxes that compensate for this movement. If the area of ​​the windows is very large, this can be problematic. If you have found a solution, you can put wooden or plastic windows. And so that the white plastic does not look alien, they put frames laminated with a film that imitates wood.

Projects of houses with panoramic glazing

It should be said right away that the cost of building such a house, at least, will not be cheaper. This impression is due to the large area occupied by the windows. But the windows must be of good quality, which is not cheap.

Panoramic windows in houses are often made in a bay window. This decorative extension itself gives the house an unusual look, and in combination with large windows, the building acquires individual features.

A house with panoramic windows can have a flat roof. Such buildings are built in a modern style, high-tech, minimalism and others with laconic architecture. They have a memorable look. They are distinguished by the presence of broken lines, the absence of smooth and rounded ones. And floor-to-ceiling windows only emphasize this feature.

Panoramic windows on two floors - an interesting option. The roof is flat, but not even. It happens too