One of the deciding factors when we purchased our home more than twenty years ago was the wonderful patterns of light that came through the windows at all hours of the day. This is one of the few original old windows that remain on the west side of the house. I just love the play of sunshine that beams through the panes at around 4:00 PM. I was thinking of getting rid of this window as part of a change to the living room. I was contemplating replacing this single window with two smaller ones set high in the wall, similar to the ones that are often seen on Arts and Crafts houses. Given how pretty the light looked today (which is not at all captured by this amateurish photograph), I may have to rethink that idea.
