We have 3 1/2”. They let in plenty of light and still look traditional, which is our aesthetic too.
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Yes, they let in a lot of light. I think 4 1/2 looks more contemporary.
I’ll PM you some pictures so you can see if you think they are traditional enough without the tilt bar.
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Do I understand correctly from your comments that your window grids do not have a center mullion? Do they instead divide the glass into three sections horizontally? If that’s the case, then I’d skip the center rod since it wouldn’t run directly behind a central mullion. It sounded as if you don’t plan to change your windows, so I’d do what looks best with the windows you have now.
We had 3.5" plantation shutters on our former home which was very traditional. When we had to replace some French doors on the basement level, I chose to not get the mullions/grids and I liked how the those doors were more open to the view. Fortunately, that was one area where I’d had curtains installed instead of plantation shutters.
The house we recently built has a less traditional look, but still had to blend into an established neighborhood in the south. I guess it would be called transitional. These double hung windows have no mullions and our front facing windows have white semi-sheer panels behind the lined draperies. I’d grown tired of the frequent dusting that the plantation shutters required, as well as having to get them repaired every time a new cleaning service broke the light weight hardware on the center stile.
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That’s correct that the standard windows are 3 squares across so the tilt bar would be in the middle, so little space on either side of the tilt bar before you have the side vertical grids. However, the paladium window is wider and has 4 equal squares, but it will also require the split shutters so they would break in the middle behind the middle grid, I’d keep the tilt bars on that window invisible. We are transitioning our very traditional home inside to more contemporary"ish". As mentioned above, just less complicated, cleaner lines…there needs to be a better word this design, maybe there is but I don’t know what it is.
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Are you saying you have one window you know will have invisible tilt bars? In that case, I would keep all the windows consistent. And if you’re trying to transition away from strict traditional, that’s another reason to go invisible.
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If I went with a tilt bar, I’d go all tilt bar, but it won’t show in the paladium window as much because a vertical grid will be there as well. I’m pretty much leaning to the invisible tilt bar…I realy don’t want to lose much light either.
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