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Can I ask where your windows are from?

4 years ago

love the way you broke up the light with the beams too.

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R2 Studio Architects
4 years ago
Hi there
The windows are triple glazed and from an Austrian company called Josko. Their installers in the UK are called Zipco, you can find them on houzz too.
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