The last Integrity windows I installed had a vinyl stop with a wood veneer on the interior. I was not impressed for the price. I do like the exterior and they may have change the interior. I just replaced $60,000 worth of Anderson 400 series on a house that was built in 1996. The French doors on the south elevation were in pretty bad shape. We don't see very much Anderson in this market. Their dealers keep going out of business. I'm not sure there is an Anderson dealer in Nashville right now. This market is all Marvin and Pella when it comes to premium wood or clad wood.

Thanks for the reply. basically looking for a good to great window with little to no maintenance, will use single or double hung not so picky and picture windows. Dark color on outside, stainable or pre-stained inside. window also need to be high efficiency, great durability. we live in the Houston tx area. budget is always a concern but it is for our new house and only want to purchase once so are flexible for the right product.

I would remove carpet now and put down an area rug until you can afford to install new flooring. (Old carpet kinda makes my skin crawl.) If it were me, I’d probably paint the floor after removing the rug. Paint it a color that blends with the area rug to make it less obvious where it sticks out from under the rug. I don't know a lot about drapes, so don’t really have a preference for rings or no rings. You won’t be opening and closing the drapes much, but if you do go without rings, make sure the rod pocket isn't so tight that you can’t move the drape if you want to. I know drapes are hung high these days, but I’ve never cared for the look of a cellular shade mounted above the window trim. I prefer inside mount, even if the trim is nothing to write home about. I love the color Tradewind and look forward to seeing your finished room!

Here I what the front looks like now: The open area to the side that looks like a carport would be shifted to the right by a few feet and be narrower. The slope means that the front part woild be tall, but it would rise to be unusable space underneath about 6 feet or so from the corner of the house. This is all within the dripline of the tree, so we don't plan on doing any sort of patio or anything with this space unless a landscape architect can give us something that would be root friendly. Otherwise, we may just screen it with plants. (It is already pretty screened from street view by other plants and trees closer from the street.) I marked the approximate area of the slope at thr back of the house with the green line. It would be the same on the other side, but there would be a small retaining block wall at the right corner of the garage to make the grading work. IF we keep a gable on that side deck (someone suggested we just carry the shed pitch around the corner but I wonder if it would look weird because it would still be 13 feet and don't know of that would look weird especially with the smaller shed roof on the front), it would be smaller (currently 16 feet) and the ridge should align with the wall. The stairs would be in the area in pink and would be a U shape with landing. The main entry door, horribly sketched in blue, would be on the front of the house with the basement entry shifting to the side. (We do have to bump a wall out for this, but that should be a very easy design fix for our architect.) We are not sure if we should change the roof so that the front is a gable rather than the sides. The width of the house is 40 feet and the depth would be 38 feet with the change to the bedrooms, so I don't think it would make much difference in materials or money, but is more of a design thing. Someone suggested it as a way of bringing the eye away from the (potential) gable over the deck, but I wonder if it is too much or of it makes the house seem even taller. Normally I love front facing gables, so I am worried that bias may make me miss something. We may ask our architect to give us elevations of both rooflines, but that may also be a bit of an issue as he did not want to give is elevations at all until we had finalized a floor plan. (This is the source of at least a couple of revisions I want to do now.) I think thr pandemic made him more interested in retirement and not ad interested in listening to our ideas, but I may also just be anxious about a lot. I mean, I am! We can't afford to get major things wrong here! Any other thoughts? NOTE: I cannot get thr image to size correctly no matter what I do. It seems Houzz doesn't want to play nicely with my phone. If I click on thr image it becomes a more normal instead of zoomed in size, but I have tried multiple screen captures and it just isn't working. I am sorry!