To give a small area a sense of spaciousness you tend to need a few windows - either that or no roof (ie a fence) or do without a few walls (ie a picnic shelter). We have a good selection of windows - 3 new (well 2nd hand new, from Brown Sparrow recycling - love that name) & 3 recycled from our old house. The big ticket items are our recycled bay windows, each of which weighs a tonne - it took four of us to lift the small one, & six blokes couldn't lift the big one!
It's also been a neighbourhood effort to find storage for the bay windows - the small one ended up in Anna's barn (along with the frame of the big one, plus a stack of rimu joinery), & the glass for the big one went into Femke's garage (snuggled up between our mattress, washing machine & old desk). So great to get all this wonderful salvaged material out again & meld it into a new space.
Here's a few pics to be going on with - more to come soon :-)
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| South side window + cavity battens |
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| East side, with repainted bay window |
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| Nessi striding keenly along the NW frontier, cavity batten in hand |
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| Cavity batten getting the chop |
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