I’m making flower boxes for a house that has windows surrounded in 3″ trim. (see attached photo). I can’t decide if the window boxes sould be the width of the window, or the overall width including the trim. Any opinions?
PS, there will also be shutters at some point in the future.
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Generally, window boxes are the width of the window, excluding shutters. Whether or not you include the trim is up to you. If it were me, I'd include the trim. You could always buy some freezer paper and cut it to silhouettes of the two different widths and see what you prefer. We do that fairly often when we're not certain what we want. I thought it was very amateurish (although it worked great) until I saw them doing the same thing on the HGTV shows on design.
Good luck!
PS Unless you intend to water them daily in the hot summer, there are self-watering planters out there that work great, and will reduce your watering. You can make the wooden planter boxes, and then insert the self-watering planters in them.
You could make the window boxes by ordering a 'horizontal shutter' to match the others in the length of the sill and build the other sides of the box with cedar. Drop in a plastic box or line with copper.
Jeff
Seems to be to the outside of the trim.
Look here:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=window%20box&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
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big enough for the plant
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Make your window box as wide as the trim. Your window shape is already narrow and tall, so a narrow box would make it look more so.
To the observer's eye, the object that is your window includes the trim, just as a picture and its frame on the wall are seen as one object.