Wooden windows
Renovation windows that take the existing division and the look of the façade as their starting point, executed with current glazing and hardware.
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Service area
Carpenter in Hoeilaart
Contemporary joinery that suits an existing house — in Hoeilaart that is usually the brief.
Renovating between forest and Druivenstreek
Hoeilaart is compactly built and sits against the Sonian Forest. That gives the municipality a housing stock of its own: a dense centre of interwar houses and town houses, and around it villas that, given the nearby woodland, often turn a lot of glass towards the garden.
Renovating here almost always means working within an existing architecture. Replacing a window in a nineteen-thirties façade is a different exercise from fitting one in a new build: the division, the glazing bars and the depth of the profile all help decide whether the façade still reads correctly once the work is done.
At the same time, almost nobody wants a literal copy of what was there. The request is usually this: contemporary execution, contemporary comfort, but with a profile that does not upset the façade. That calls for decisions made up front, from dimensions and samples, rather than improvised on site.
As a joinery with its own workshop, we can also carry those decisions out. A profile that appears in no catalogue is, for us, a drawing and a machine setting — not an exception to be substituted with something else.
- New joinery matched to existing façades
- Profiles and divisions to measure, not from a catalogue
- Solid wood for interior and exterior work
- Workshop in Huldenberg, in the same region
What we make for Hoeilaart
What we make for homes in Hoeilaart:
Wooden doors
Exterior and internal doors in solid wood, from a classic panelled model to a flat, clean door leaf.
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Staircases for existing stairwells, where the available space rather than a standard size determines the form.
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Wooden gates for driveways and outbuildings, in the same species and finish as the rest of the exterior joinery.
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Sliding windows onto garden or terrace — much requested in houses oriented towards the greenery.
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Our workshop, where profiles and joints are actually made.
More about Our workshopHow a project runs
From first question to finished joinery it runs like this:
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Contact
You send us your question through the contact form or by e-mail, with a description of what you are looking for.
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Discussion
We go through the purpose, the style, the timber species and the finish — and what is and is not workable.
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Measuring
We measure on site. In renovation work an existing opening is rarely square, so we take those dimensions ourselves, piece by piece.
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Quotation
You receive a quotation setting out the agreed execution, timber species and finish.
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Preparation
Once approved, the work goes into production in our own workshop in Huldenberg.
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Installation
Our own installation team fits the joinery and finishes the connections.
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Follow-up
We stay reachable after installation — for adjustment, maintenance advice or a next phase.
What working locally actually changes
Renovation work is decided before production starts. Anyone who knows façades knows that an opening measured at three heights gives three different dimensions, and that a sill is rarely plumb.
Direct consultation solves that. You discuss your plans with the people who also make and fit the joinery, so a choice about profile or finish is immediately tested against what is technically achievable.
For the client that mainly means little has to be repeated along the way. What was agreed at the measuring visit sits on the workbench, not in an order form that has passed through three sets of hands.
- Direct consultation on profile and division
- Measured in the existing condition
- Our own production, so adjustments stay possible
- Follow-up after installation
Projects
From our work
A selection of our joinery. These photos show what we make; they were not necessarily taken in this municipality.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work in Hoeilaart?
Yes. Hoeilaart is part of our service area; we work from our workshop in Huldenberg.
Can new joinery sit well with an older façade?
That is often exactly the brief. We start from the existing division and profile depth and work them out in a contemporary execution.
Can a renovation be done in phases?
Yes. For example the street elevation first and the garden elevation later, in the same species and finish, so the whole still reads as one.
How does measuring work?
We come on site, measure every opening separately and look at the connections: sills, internal finishes, insulation. Only then does anything go into production.
Do you work with architects?
Regularly. Where an architect is involved, we settle the details directly with them.
Do you make the interior joinery in a renovation as well?
Yes. Internal doors, staircases and bespoke work in solid wood belong to the same trade and are often taken on alongside the exterior joinery.
Other municipalities in our service area
A renovation planned in Hoeilaart?
Tell us what is there and what you want to achieve. We will think the execution through with you.