Steel factory windows and doors frame the views in some of our favorite gardens. New or salvaged, their industrial style mingles well with both modern and traditional architecture to add free-spirit informality to even the grandest garden. Here are 11 of our favorites:
Above: Architect Elizabeth Roberts replaced the back wall of a townhouse in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with two floors of full-height windows. On the ground floor, the entire window wall swings open to the garden. For more of this project, see Indoor/Outdoor Living, Brooklyn Style on Remodelista.
Above: During a recent remodel, a 16-foot-wide townhouse in New York City got a wall of factory windows made of hot rolled steel (sourced from A & S Window Associates). For more of this project, see Rehab Diaries: An Artist's NYC Kitchen Renovation.
Above: A wall of steel windows frames the view from a Brooklyn townhouse with a small backyard terrace and gravel court. For more, see Steal This Look: Midcentury Mod Townhouse Garden in Brooklyn.
Above: In Amsterdam, designer Maurius Haverkamp's home in a former warehouse is designed around a patio with walls of glass and steel that send sunlight into all areas of the house. Photograph via Kikette Interiors.
Above: In a former printing factory in Paris, garden designer Jacques Leseur softened the industrial backdrop with flowering wisteria vines and cut leaf Japanese maple trees. For more, see Steal This Look: An Industrial Chic Parisian Courtyard.
Above: At Domaine de Larbeou in Bayonne, France, a former holiday house has a front porch with glazed metal windows shaded by plane trees. Photograph via Marie Claire Maison.
Above: Two-story factory windows and French doors bring sunlight into a kitchen by Brazil-based Estudio Vitor Penha.
Above: A brick floor indoors and stone pavers on the terrace; the factory metal windows barely interrupt the flow between indoors and out. Photographs by Derek Swalwell.
Above: Landscape architect Susan Wisniewski's garden for a Manhattan townhouse has layers of texture—stone, wood, and greenery—to create an illusion of greater space. For more of her work, see Landscape Architect Visit: A Hudson Valley Farm, Pond Included.
Above: A wall of factory windows and doors connects a Brooklyn Heights townhouse to a backyard garden designed by Robin Key Landscape Architecture. For more of landscape architect Robin Key's work, see Lush Life: A Townhouse Garden in Manhattan.
Above: In Australia, a wall of steel windows and doors lures sunlight into a townhouse living room. For more photos, see Design Sleuth: Vertical Garden of Terra Cotta Pots.
Above: Interior designer Claire Larritt-Evans created a vertical garden wall on a small balcony.
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