a little window to my soul
Introducing the worl'ds first bird-safe window!
We're still working through the details on how to keep the rain out of the house with this new breed of window, but we guarantee you'll never be startled by a bird hitting the window.
This labor day was spent laboring mightily and we have a new window to show for it. The project of taking the old window out, moving the opening up and getting the new window in went very smoothly. We both wish that we had known how easy it was to move the window because we probably would have gone with something larger. Oh well. The good news about not resizing the window any more than we did is that we had a limited amount of siding to fix.
What siding there was looks like a high school shop class had a go at using a jig saw for the first time. Unfortunately we couldn't locate cedar shakes to look like ours. Mark made an attempt at custom crafting several different kinds and gets a C for the effort. They don't exactly match, but it's more as a result of improper planning. We didn't really weave them in with the old ones so there is a pretty well defined break. It's also very hard to match the character of the old rotten shingles.
While we do wish the shingles match, we're happy to be done with the bird safe window and back to something that exerts our dominance over nature. It took a lot of will power not to reface the house (a project that would still be nice). We're a little better about focusing on things that improve the livable space. Once that's done we'll take the other challenges.
Here's a shot of the final window with it's primer. not too bad for a rookie, eh?
posted by Our House @ 6:42 PM
1 Comments:
We too are taking out windows and down sizing them...too many windows! They are big, heavy timber frames and difficult to remove but we are getting there. I like the bookshelf in the wall idea too.
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