Settling on a reputable, lasting window brand like Pella® is only the first of many important decisions to make before installing replacement windows. However, the next step—choosing the window features and options that will boost your home’s efficiency and curb appeal—is a blast!
Keep reading to learn about all the ways to customize your Pella windows:
Materials
Choose from the following window materials to find the right blend of style and energy efficiency for your home:
Wood
Wood is a beautiful, timeless window material that is also highly customizable and efficient. Pella’s wood windows are especially damage-resistant and low-maintenance thanks to their aluminum-clad exteriors and proprietary EnduraGuard® coatings to protect against moisture, rot, and pest damage.
Fiberglass
Fiberglass is a highly durable, long-lasting material that won’t warp, crack, or break—even in climates with rapidly changing temperatures, like Indianapolis. Fiberglass is as energy-efficient as wood and comes in a wide range of shapes and styles for endless customization.
Vinyl
Vinyl is an affordable, low-maintenance window material that is highly customizable, with dozens of colors and finishes. Options like insulated vinyl and interlocking window sashes make it easy to improve the overall performance of your vinyl windows.
Colors and Finishes
Pella windows come in dozens of attractive colors and finishes to complement your home’s unique architectural style with ease.
Fiberglass and vinyl windows come in solid or dual-color frames in black, brown, white, tan, and gray. Wood windows have the most design flexibility. Choose from prefinished stains, like Golden Oak, Black, or Dark Mahogany, or prefinished paint in Bright White, White, Linen White, or Primed for Paint. Aluminum-clad exteriors come in black, white, brown, and various shades of tan, gray, green, and red.
Window Grilles
Wood windows are offered with Integral Light Technology® grilles (grids) for the most authentic, historically accurate appearance or Simulated Divided-Light grilles for the look of divided-light windowpanes. Grilles-between-the-glass are available for wood, vinyl, and fiberglass windows to create the look of divided lights while still offering ease of cleaning.
Grille patterns include Prairie, Traditional, Top Row, Cross, and Custom, depending on the material.
Window Hardware
From traditional, historic detailing to modern design, Pella offers a wide range of colors, finishes, and window hardware styles with practical features for premium performance, such as fold-away cranks for casement and awning windows and AutoLock® hardware for enhanced safety on select window styles.
Window Screens and Shades
Depending on your window series, Pella windows come with innovative Hidden Screen and Rolscreen® options that appear when the window is open and roll away when closed to maximize natural light while minimizing bugs.
Between-the-glass blinds and shades are a great option for cordless window treatments that protect children and pets and remain dust and damage-free.
Trim Options
Wood trim is available in pine or oak and can come unfinished, painted, or stained. Choose from unique styles to match your home’s architecture, from Colonial and Craftsman to Ranch and Provincial.
Glass Options
In addition to double- and triple-pane window systems, Pella offers the following options to fortify the glass panes with additional durability, security, energy efficiency, or noise reduction:
- Impact-Resistant Glass — Weather the storm with impact-resistant glass, built to resist flying debris and other storm-related damage.
- Tinted Glass — Block the sun’s rays to keep your home cooler in the summer months.
- Privacy and Security Glass — Increase your home’s security with tempered glass that is nearly impossible to shatter or frosted, obscure glass for extra privacy.
- Low-E Glass — Reflect heat from harmful ultraviolet rays to lower annual heating and cooling costs and prevent carpet, furniture, and décor from fading.
- Sound Control Glass — Choose STC (Sound Transmission Class) glass to dampen sounds or laminated glass for noise reduction and extra security.
- Glass Coatings — Apply coatings to large, difficult-to-clean windows to keep them clean with minimal intervention.
Customize Pella Windows with the Help of JD Hostetter & Associates
From frame materials and grille patterns to window screen options and stain colors—it can feel overwhelming to choose the perfect combination of window features to achieve the right level of durability, efficiency, and style for your home.
Our team would love to help. JD Hostetter is a Pella Platinum Certified Contractor, meaning we’ve demonstrated an elite level of excellence in installing Pella windows and are well-versed in the brand’s numerous colors, materials, and styles.
Learn more about Pella window installation with our experienced team, and contact us with any questions!
