Five ways to sit in a window
With a little home improvement, you will feel properly pampered when you relax in a window seat retreat and there is a beautiful piece of furniture. The sun warm you and sends down excellent reading light. You will have a pleasant view and you will enjoy a private niche that’s separate yet open to both indoors and outdoors. By windows make superb window seats. They let in light for people and plants, and open up a view three sides. The traditional curved bay –as well as the modern box shaped bay – is a natural candidate for a built in seating platform.
Small green house additions are another way to create a window retreat. But, both green house windows and bay windows may bring in too much sun. Direct sun may discolor upholstery, fade rugs, dry out wood floors, and make the windows seat too hot. Reflective film and shades can reduce the glare; ventilation cuts down the heat build up. Locating the window out of direct sun is the best solution.
Sit under a skylight
Small, modern bay window has a skylight above the softly padded window seat. Adjustable, track mounted spotlight shines down from beam for nighttime use.
Storage drawers underneath the seat and conveniently placed bookshelf make the area a well furnished little retreat. Architect: Hartman Cox.
Sit in a window box
Bookshelves on two sides and underneath the seating platform make a boxlike frame for a window retreat. Freestanding bookcase have adjustable shelves. Window seat extends into the bookcase at both ends for a built in look.
Sit in a bubble
Intended as a dome skylight, a clear acrylic bubble makes a porthole window seat when placed in an outside wall. Dome skylight comes in various sizes; a dome 4 feet in diameter is just right for a one person window seat. Circular casing made of bender board holds bubble in wall and forms the seat.
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Sep 15, 2010 2:55 am |
Home Security Store has over 50 door and window contacts for you to choose from for your wired or wireless home alarm system. Typically a home burglar alarm system kit comes with two door and window contacts, but that might not be enough to fit all your home security needs.
Door and window contacts work with a sensor and a magnet. The sensor is placed on the frame of the door or window, while the magnet is placed on the door or window itself. This creates a circuit between the two. However, when the circuit is broken by opening up the window or door, a signal is sent to the alarm control panel that an entry has been breached.
There are two main types of door and window contacts. There are surface and recessed. Surface contacts are generally less expensive than recessed, but are more noticeable as well. With surface (as the name implies) the sensor is placed on the surface of the frame while the magnetic contact is placed on the surface of the door or window itself. With recessed, the sensor and the magnet are installed inside the frame and the door or window.
A third type of contact is a standard garage door contact. A garage door contact is similar to a surface contact in appearance and works the same too. However, the sensor part is usually installed onto or into the floor, while the magnetic part is installed on the garage door or roll up door itself.
Remember, the same principles for wired or wireless alarm systems, goes for contacts as well. While hardwired contacts are less expensive, they are more time consuming to install. On the other hand, wireless alarm contacts are more easily installed and can be added to or moved to a new location with ease.
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