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Posted by mm on March 19, 2007, 12:39 am
Whatever you say.
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:21:51 -0800, "Eigenvector"
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>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:30:30 -0500, Jeff Wisnia
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>>>Six food wide windows weren't exactlycommon back when shutters were a
>>>practical necessity.
>>
>> Hmmm. Even though I noticed the width, I missed it too.
>>
>> I have no artistic or architectural talent, except sometimes to say
>> what I don't like.
>>
>> Make a to-scale drawing, complete with new shutters, and look at it a
>> lot over time. Maybe that will help.
>>
>> There might be a rew rich people from 250 years ago with wide
>> shuttered windows, but I'm not sure. I tour a lot of homes, from the
>> Missippi to the Atlantic, from the south to the north, but especially
>> the northeast, from that period and they have some unexpected luxuries
>> in many, but I can't specifically remember wide windows and if I
>> could, I wouldn't remember shutters.
>>
>> Where do you live OP. Can you find some homes with tour guides to
>> discuss this with. They usually know far more than they say in their
>> tours. Or books on architectrure of the period. They usually have
>> pictures. Or possibly google, but I think a reallife architectural
>> historian. If they guides don't know about houses other than their
>> own, the curators of the houses might.
>>
>Well I posted I was in Seattle, although shutters seem to be a pretty
>universal feature across the world. I'll grant you that a 72" wide window
>is NOT however.
>
>Shutters don't really serve a useful purpose that I've seen, but they keep
>the sun out of the room, and keep the snow from piling up against the window
>pane. But that's stretching it. Really I'm more interested in a exterior
>window dressing - but those windows are just humongous!
>
>http://photos.imageevent.com/eigenvector/houseideas/websize/front.JPG
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>I guess I'm just scrounging for ideas now. I really don't like those
>shutters
>
>>>But, the next time I have my house painted I think I'll have the
>>>shutters put back with the angle of the slats sloped in the proper
>>>direction. All the ones I see which are just onto the house are "upside
>>>down" to the way they would be oriented if they were hinged and could be
>>>closed over the windows.
>>
>> Maybe those people have sliding shutters! :-)
>>
>>>Jeff
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