Eye Test

Here's a little eye test for you.  Can you tell any difference between the two lower windows?

As part of renovating the house Ross and I had hoped to replace the windows some day.  That was some day.  We never painted the muntins, rails or stiles (all the wood around the panes of glass) because of this.  For the past four years I have looked out our bedroom window and was always left looking at the dirty pea green/possibly citron color that the room was originally painted, and I mean everything in the room (the windows, the closet door, the back of the bedroom door, and all the trim).  Thank the good Lord that they left the ceiling white!

Of course windows cost money.  Money we don't have right now. So, we decided to do some work on the windows.  The other day we painted all the windows in our bedroom white (to match all the trim).  It actually seems to make the sunshine outside brighter. Who'd of thunk!  I also decided to replace the old screens with new material; that is the difference in the above picture.  The window on the left is the old screen (looks darker) and on the right is the new one (looks brighter).  It always amazes me how subtle changes can have such a big impact.  Now all I have to do is paint the rest of the window interiors, replace the other half of the screens in the house, replace all the weathered and worn glaze around the window panes, and paint the window exteriors. How much are new windows again?...