Stone moldings and surrounds provide accents for your home

Light plays a major role in the overall look and feel of a property and a space, which is why windows are such critical components of a properly designed interior or exterior.

However, the windows themselves are only one small piece of the puzzle. Sure, they are the actual “portal” that allows the light to enter into a space or you to see outside, but they can also be elevated to entirely new heights when combined with properly designed and installed window surrounds.

Describing just about anything that is placed around a window as a decorative or architectural feature, window surrounds can completely and totally transform the overall “flavor” of any interior or exterior space completely.

If you want to easily (and almost instantly) change a space, start with window surrounds!

Traditional or “out there”, window surrounds will change the overall aesthetic of everything

If you’ve ever seen a window that was trimmed out rather simply (with your everyday clear pine material that had been routed with one design or another) replaced by a higher end window surround you’ll no doubt understand exactly the kind of power that this design aspect has to change everything about a specific space.

It doesn’t matter whether you are going with a more traditional construction material and design or something really “out there”, even just switching up the color and size of a window surround is usually enough to completely alter the space, the aesthetic, and the “temperature” of a particular room or property.

This isn’t the kind of decision that you can afford to take lightly.

Mix and match exterior and interior stone surrounds for a completely custom look and feel

There might not be a more powerful design principle than contrasting elements working in perfect harmony.

There’s just something about the juxtaposition between two things that seem so wildly different blending together to create something that makes all the sense in the world that blows our minds and really brings us into a space in ways that nothing else can.

Well, if you like to pull that off perfectly, you’ll want to think about mixing and matching the exterior and interior surrounds on your property.

By choosing a specific “look” for the exterior of your home, you’ll be setting people up for expectations about the interior of your home that you will be free to violate spectacularly (in the most exciting and visually interesting ways), creating dramatic tension that will make your house stand out immediately.

Get creative with traditional designs and nontraditional construction materials

Another great way to get some interesting visual design going on inside or outside of your home is to combine completely traditional designs for window surrounds that have been implemented with nontraditional construction materials.

This is basically the same principle as above but implemented in a different way, but still creating that interesting contrast and juxtaposition that can really elevate the overall design aesthetic of your property or your space with almost zero effort on your behalf.

The bottom line? Pay attention to your window surrounds and you will be rewarded!

Precast concrete is the preferred building material when it comes to creating window surrounds. Surrounds are popular because the go around not only windows, but doors and garages as well. You can find plenty of good uses for architectural stone.