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Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:52am

Hi all, working on a design for a window seat-flat, and just wanted some opinions on it. Planning on making it sit in a 4' wide flat, with the seat part between 2'6" and 3' wide. Any suggestions on depth of the window behind, and if I should go with an angled design, or just straight box window? I've drawn up some ideas already, just wanted to see if anyone with any experience making one of these has any advice. Thanks.

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Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:30am

I would do an angled window and seat with a depth of about a foot and a half, no more than two feet. Unless of course there are budget considerations. If there are you could build the seat as a sort of box about the size of a steamer trunk and butt it up against the flat window flat...(redundant? heh).

What's the period of the show? That might suggest to you which would be better to do.

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Posted: 9/30/05 at 9:48am

It's for Broadway Bound, so late 1940's, more of a lower-income house. Not poor, but not extravagant by any means. I was trying to work out a way to set the window behind the flat, and make a more hollow spot for the seat with only a part of it showing in the front. In a NY city setting would it be more accurate to have something sticking out from a flat wall though?

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Posted: 9/30/05 at 12:53pm

I would guess that such a house would be in the suburbs. And if you watch a show like All in the Family, you'll see a ton of suburban houses with that kind of protruding window. A house like that would have been built then, so the protruding window would be something like (and I hope this works:)

\_/ with the pooch facing the street and the seat in the window.

I think it would make for a better visual, at any rate. But you're the designer, go with whichever you like best. :)

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Posted: 9/30/05 at 5:18pm

That's what I was leaning towards anyway, and have one all drawn up, thanks for the advice :->

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Posted: 10/01/05 at 6:19am

Most welcome. Any time. :)

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Tjelvar Player Joined: 9/28/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Topic: Window seat Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:52am
	Hi all, working on a design for a window seat-flat, and just wanted some opinions on it. Planning on making it sit in a 4' wide flat, with the seat part between 2'6" and 3' wide. Any suggestions on depth of the window behind, and if I should go with an angled design, or just straight box window? I've drawn up some ideas already, just wanted to see if anyone with any experience making one of these has any advice. Thanks.

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sparf Player Joined: 9/30/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 23	Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:30am
	I would do an angled window and seat with a depth of about a foot and a half, no more than two feet. Unless of course there are budget considerations. If there are you could build the seat as a sort of box about the size of a steamer trunk and butt it up against the flat window flat...(redundant? heh). What's the period of the show? That might suggest to you which would be better to do.
	That is not dead which can eternal lie / and with strange aeons even Death may die.
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Tjelvar Player Joined: 9/28/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 9/30/05 at 9:48am
	It's for Broadway Bound, so late 1940's, more of a lower-income house. Not poor, but not extravagant by any means. I was trying to work out a way to set the window behind the flat, and make a more hollow spot for the seat with only a part of it showing in the front. In a NY city setting would it be more accurate to have something sticking out from a flat wall though?
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sparf Player Joined: 9/30/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 23	Posted: 9/30/05 at 12:53pm
	I would guess that such a house would be in the suburbs. And if you watch a show like All in the Family, you'll see a ton of suburban houses with that kind of protruding window. A house like that would have been built then, so the protruding window would be something like (and I hope this works:) \_/ with the pooch facing the street and the seat in the window. I think it would make for a better visual, at any rate. But you're the designer, go with whichever you like best. :)
	That is not dead which can eternal lie / and with strange aeons even Death may die.
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Tjelvar Player Joined: 9/28/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 9/30/05 at 5:18pm
	That's what I was leaning towards anyway, and have one all drawn up, thanks for the advice :->
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sparf Player Joined: 9/30/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 23	Posted: 10/01/05 at 6:19am
	Most welcome. Any time. :)
	That is not dead which can eternal lie / and with strange aeons even Death may die.
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