{"id":738,"date":"2009-02-18T06:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2012-02-15T17:37:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T00:37:02","slug":"choosing-energy-efficient-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/choosing-energy-efficient-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Energy Efficient Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/choosing-the-right-glass.asp\" target=\"_blank\">choosing your windows<\/a>, you need to look beyond the aesthetics and focus on the glass itself, because it&#8217;s the glass that will block the heat in the summer, cold in the winter and allow for an abundance of natural light.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re purchasing windows, be sure to take note of the U-value, which is a measure of how much heat makes it through an assembly (as opposed to an R-value, which is a measure of resistance.)<\/p>\n<p>The lower the U-value of your windows, the more insulation they provide. Look for the latest green window products from top manufacturers like Pella, Andersen and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.integritywindows.com\/?page=New_Products\" target=\"_blank\">Marvin<\/a> who continue to come up with new glass technology and product lines that are  beautiful, energy efficient and safe.<\/p>\n<p>Get inspired by viewing of some of our  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/editorschoice\/window-designs.asp\" target=\"_blank\">top window designs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to choosing your windows, you need to look beyond the aesthetics and focus on the glass itself, because it&#8217;s the glass that will block the heat in the summer, cold in the winter and allow for an abundance of natural light. When you&#8217;re purchasing windows, be sure to take note of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}