Window seat
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Topic: Window seat
Posted By: Tjelvar
Subject: Window seat
Date Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:52am
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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 By: sparf
Date 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 By: Tjelvar
Date Posted: 9/30/05 at 9:48am
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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 By: sparf
Date 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 By: Tjelvar
Date Posted: 9/30/05 at 5:18pm
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That's what I was leaning towards anyway, and have one all drawn up, thanks for the advice :->
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Posted By: sparf
Date Posted: 10/01/05 at 6:19am
Most welcome. Any time. :)
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