The back of my layout faces a window, but there's a narrow aisle between them. I've got a Venetian blind in the window. I suppose the neighbors could peer through the trees and look in, but I don't really care. The Venetian blind lets me block the late-afternoon sun if it's too bright, or I can open it for light and ventilation.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
My window treatment?
There is a standard old-school basement window near the top behind the backdrop. It's painted on 1/8" masonite over 1" foiled foam. Both are sheets turned so that the four foot direction extends from the ceiling down, so takes care of making the basement cozy. The window was above grade, but I just went ahead and covered it with a steel window well, which I keep covered with one of those plastic snap-on covers to keep leaves, etc out. I made the mistake of locating the seam in the backdrop over the window. It's pretty thermally isolated, but moves just enough the seam is a little loose there. People usually don't even notice, but it's one thing to be aware of when covering windows.
There is a standard old-school basement window near the top behind the backdrop. It's painted on 1/8" masonite over 1" foiled foam. Both are sheets turned so that the four foot direction extends from the ceiling down, so takes care of making the basement cozy.
The window was above grade, but I just went ahead and covered it with a steel window well, which I keep covered with one of those plastic snap-on covers to keep leaves, etc out. I made the mistake of locating the seam in the backdrop over the window. It's pretty thermally isolated, but moves just enough the seam is a little loose there. People usually don't even notice, but it's one thing to be aware of when covering windows.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
zstripe You mean like the, ''leg lamp'', in a ''Christmas Story"?
That's the one Frank.
"Look! It says FRA-GIL-E, It must be Italian"
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Brent,
You mean like the, ''leg lamp'', in a ''Christmas Story"? I like when his wife, broke it and he tried, to glue it back together. It was made in France, also, fraahhgelly, I think it was.
Cheers,
Frank
Where is the photo?
Here's a photo from the inside. You can imagine what it looks like from the outside. I like to keep'em guessing. I love it when people look at it and say "what the heck is that thing".
When I tell them, they say "you must have a great wife". And of course, I do, that's why I did.
Why cover it. A model RR is even better than a leg lamp.
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Rather that having a view from the outside of the back of my benchwork, I'm thinking the windows in the layout room should be covered with something. What have y'all used that looks the least obnoxious from the outside?
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