What does the fire marshall think of bars on the outside of windows? I would think they would be considered a safety hazard preventing egress.
That was my concern as well, but it looks like the bars can be opened from inside.
Good luck, CB.
The bars are decorative and I don’t think they open. They are only on the upstairs bathroom window and the kitchen window. They are not on the ‘egress’ windows in the downstairs bedroom and upstairs bedroom (which are actually sliding doors) , although I have no idea what is considered egress for the master bedroom. Guess you jump over the rail down into the living and then escape with two broken legs or something.
Ans we thought the checkered glass in the MCM house was ugly… 
I am watching a new HGTV show called Hot Properties: San Diego, the episode is Runway Payday.
Interesting to see the realtors and renovators talk about the neighborhoods and problems that cb faces.
When I had a railing installed last spring, the installer had a really fat book, like a phone book, full of patterns and designs. Your bad Spanish design is probably available still, or something close to it.
It would be easier if it was a ‘railing’ instead of a specific window size and pattern. The open issue is whether the HOA is going to make us put those iron decorative grilles over the two new windows that I am adding to the left and right of the fireplace. The windows are going to be very high at the top of the ceiling area to bring in light and sky view.
It looks like the window at the top of the front of the house (living room) does not have any grilles. So a case can be made that for aesthetics purposes those new windows need to be grille-less to match the front.
Yes, the staircase small window and front of the house do not have grills. The staircase window is very odd. I inspected it the other day and its plexiglass or acrylic and all bubbled up and damaged. Who the heck puts plexiglass in an exterior window? I think it was built that way and they have the gall to question why we are replacing the window.
Holy guac. Acrylic window?
I can picture how great those townhomes would look with a railles glass on the front balconies. Or with cable railing 
Yes, the lucky owners who have the contemporary style duplexes get to have the stainless and glass railings
@coralbrook I’m so looking forward to seeing how you transform this very dated place into a WOW place.
Ans we thought the checkered glass in the MCM house was ugly…>>>>>>>>>>
What do you mean by “checkered glass”?
The glass panels with grids that CB replaced with clear glass. Any grilles or grids obstructing view are ugly, but these “decorative” grilles are much worse than those plastic grids.
The glass panels with grids that CB replaced with clear glass. Any grilles or grids obstructing view are ugly, but these “decorative” grilles are much worse than those plastic grids. >>>>>
Thanks. You don’t soften the blow, LOL. Those are the kind of windows we have. The style is good for our New England style house. I prefer them in fact for most homes that are traditional, farmhouse, Colonial, Dutch colonial, etc. which of course I realize does not exist in San Diego most likely.
Those are perfectly fine on the right style of home as long as they don’t obstruct the million dollar view.
I never thought the grids on the flip were “ugly,” I just thought they got in the way of the view and weren’t really in keeping with the style of the house.
My circa 1913 house has the original oversized 8 over 1 double-hung windows. My last house, built circa 1790, had the original 12 over 8 windows. Ripping them out in either case would be vandalism. Not in this case.
Agree that many architectural styles need paned windows however there are good paned windows and bad paned windows.
True divided glass wood windows are lovely, as long as they insulate well and are in good condition. I purchased some expensive wood windows with panes for the Del Monte house because I wanted to bring the windows back to the original architecture. Someone had replaced them with cheap tan vinyl windows.
On the La Mesa house it was the opposite problem. Someone had replaced the original aluminum single pan windows with plastic grills inside vinyl dual pane retrofit windows. In both cases I can understand that the owners wanted dual pane, better insulation. But in both cases they went the wrong direction for the style of the house