Pella

Lifestyle Series

Pella's volume best-seller wood-clad mid-tier line for residential projects.

Volume best-selling clad-wood mid-tier line for non-HVHZ residential. Seven window operations plus bay and bow, hinged door, and sliding patio door.

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Impact Rating Large-Missile (LMI) Design Pressure +90 / -90 psf Energy U-factor from 0.18 Made in USA
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9 windows & doors in the Lifestyle Series

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Windows (7)

Pella Lifestyle Casement

Pella Lifestyle Casement

Casement

Clad-wood mid-tier casement window, side-hinged with a crank-out vent. Florida Product Approval listed for residential outside HVHZ jurisdictions.

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Pella Lifestyle Double Hung

Pella Lifestyle Double Hung

Double Hung

Clad-wood mid-tier double-hung with both sashes operable. A separate Impact-Resistant configuration is available for projects requiring impact glazing outside HVHZ.

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Pella Lifestyle Fixed / Picture / Specialty Shapes

Pella Lifestyle Fixed / Picture / Specialty Shapes

Fixed Window

Clad-wood mid-tier fixed window in rectangular and geometric specialty shapes (half-round, arched, octagonal, trapezoid) for architectural accent installations.

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Pella Lifestyle Awning

Pella Lifestyle Awning

Awning

Clad-wood mid-tier awning window, top-hinged with a crank-out vent that sheds rain while ventilating. Non-HVHZ Florida residential.

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Pella Lifestyle Bay & Bow

Pella Lifestyle Bay & Bow

Bay Window

Clad-wood mid-tier compound window assembly available as a three-lite Bay or four to six-lite Bow, inheriting approvals from the casement and fixed components.

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Pella Lifestyle Single Hung

Single Hung

Clad-wood mid-tier single-hung, the most common operation style on Florida homes. Non-HVHZ Florida residential installations.

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Pella Lifestyle Sliding (Gliding) Window

Horizontal Roller

Clad-wood mid-tier horizontal sliding window, opening side-to-side for wider sash configurations than single-hung supports. Non-HVHZ Florida residential.

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Doors (2)

Pella Lifestyle Hinged / In-Swing Patio Door

French Door

Clad-wood mid-tier hinged French or single in-swing patio door, dual-glazed. Separate Impact-Resistant configuration available for non-HVHZ projects needing impact glass.

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Pella Lifestyle Sliding Patio Door

Sliding Glass Door

Clad-wood mid-tier gliding patio door in 2, 3, and 4-panel configurations (OX, OXO, OXXO). NAFS 411 H-class rated for residential installations.

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Overview

About the Lifestyle Series

Lifestyle is Pella's best-selling line, a wood-clad mid-tier that covers seven window styles plus bay and bow assemblies and hinged and sliding patio doors. It is the volume Pella product across most of the country, and in Florida it is Florida-Product-Approval listed for non-HVHZ residential and light commercial work. For most of the state outside Miami-Dade and Broward, that is the line that delivers the Pella clad-wood look at a mid-tier price.

The impact exception is narrow: the Lifestyle Double Hung is available in a separate Impact-Resistant configuration (FL #20349) for projects that need impact glazing outside the HVHZ. Armor Pro specs Lifestyle on inland and non-HVHZ Florida homes that want Pella's clad-wood windows at the volume price. Inside the hurricane zone, where the code requires a Miami-Dade NOA across the board, the Pella answer is HurricaneShield or Reserve Impact rather than Lifestyle.

Compliance

Approvals & Certifications

12+ current Miami-Dade NOAs and Florida Product Approvals tied to the Lifestyle Series — each verifiable by approval number below.

AuthorityApproval #ProductIssuedExpires
FL DBPR FL20653.R9 Pella Lifestyle Fixed / Picture / Specialty Shapes 2026-01-27 —
FL DBPR FL20532.R7 Pella Lifestyle Awning 2026-01-27 —
FL DBPR FL20675.R7 Pella Lifestyle Casement 2025-12-03 —
FL DBPR FL47325 Pella Lifestyle Sliding Patio Door 2025-02-17 —
FL DBPR FL10346.R12 Pella Lifestyle Hinged / In-Swing Patio Door 2024-12-22 —
FL DBPR FL11877.R10 Pella Lifestyle Fixed / Picture / Specialty Shapes 2024-07-24 —
FL DBPR FL11865.R10 Pella Lifestyle Casement 2024-07-24 —
FL DBPR FL11883.R10 Pella Lifestyle Awning 2024-07-24 —
FL DBPR FL16246.R7 Pella Lifestyle Hinged / In-Swing Patio Door 2024-07-17 —
FL DBPR FL10354.R11 Pella Lifestyle Double Hung 2024-07-17 —
FL DBPR FL20349.R4 Pella Lifestyle Double Hung 2023-07-20 —
FL DBPR FL12448 Pella Lifestyle Single Hung — —
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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Lifestyle is Florida Product Approval listed for non-HVHZ residential and light-commercial work, but it does not carry the Miami-Dade NOA required inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. For a Miami-Dade or Broward project we move to HurricaneShield (vinyl) or Reserve Impact (clad-wood). Lifestyle is the right Pella line for inland and non-HVHZ addresses across most of the rest of the state.

Mostly not. Lifestyle is a non-impact clad-wood line, with one narrow exception: the Double-Hung is offered in a separate Impact-Resistant configuration (FL #20349) for projects outside the HVHZ that need impact glazing. Every other style in the line is standard non-impact glass. If your project needs impact protection across the board, we'd usually spec a true impact line rather than rely on the single Lifestyle impact option.

Read that one carefully. Lifestyle's base windows ship at roughly DP30, and they reach DP50 only with a field-installed DP Enhancement Kit that requires tempered glass. If the quote doesn't explicitly include the kit, the installed unit is the lower-rated version, which may not clear the design-pressure requirement many coastal counties now expect. We confirm whether the kit is included and whether the resulting rating actually clears your jurisdiction before you order.

Lifestyle is Pella's volume best-selling clad-wood mid-tier line, an aluminum-clad exterior over a wood interior, covering seven window styles (casement, awning, single-hung, double-hung, picture, sliding, and specialty shapes) plus bay and bow assemblies, hinged patio doors, and sliding patio doors. It delivers the Pella wood look at a mid-tier price. We use it on non-HVHZ Florida homes where the owner wants real wood interiors without the premium of Reserve.

Not really, in the Florida context. Lifestyle markets a Sound Control package using mixed-thickness glass to raise its sound rating, but laminated impact glass already does much the same thing as a byproduct of the interlayer that stops debris. If you're in an area that requires or benefits from impact glazing, you tend to get the noise reduction without paying for a separate sound upgrade. We compare the glass packages so you're not paying twice for the same benefit.

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