Finally getting around to a job I started a decade ago.
The ceiling of the end of this room had fallen out long before we got the house, because the idiots that added the 1916 bay window to the 1886 house just took out the end wall of the room – the one where the ceiling joists sat . . . After we put a beam in up above, we took the liberty of putting in a cathedral ceiling.
My favorite children’s book is The Diamond in the Window, about a great house in Concord, MA, and I always wanted to make a Turkish window like would have been in that house. I framed this opening in, and plastered around it a long time ago – it opens into the attic, where the playroom will be. This room has always been DW’s studio, and the funny-shaped hole had a wad of insulation stuck in it. Now that the room is about to become son’s bedroom, seems that was no longer good enough.
Made this this morning from some Baltic Birch ply, old pine, and a piece of left-over bending plywood.
Went back and drew lots of mullion designs until I found one I liked – spray can automotive primer to fill the grain and edges.
The 6 X 5/8 X 3/8″ ring is cut from the BB ply, and the 5/8 x 3/8″ sticks are pine. One sheet of glass will go behind all of this.
Now it’s all caulked and filled and drying; sanding and primer to come tonight.
Forrest
Edited 3/29/2009 7:17 pm ET by McDesign
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Awsome.
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I love it!
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I went down to the lobby
To make a small call out.
A pretty dancing girl was there,
And she began to shout,
"Go on back to see the gypsy.
He can move you from the rear,
Drive you from your fear,
Bring you through the mirror.
He did it in Las Vegas,
And he can do it here."
Ahh - DW just explained it to me - thought maybe it was part of the bean thread that I refuse to read, on general principles.
Forrest
Forrestt,
Got any magic carpets in that house ??
Just for you - the painted frame sitting on a real Turkish carpet we brought back from Istanbul while Saddam was suddenly in Kuwait and things were complicated and our travels in that part of the world was cut short and I didn't take the job in Riyadh -
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Forrest
Edited 3/31/2009 8:24 pm ET by McDesign
Thanks Forrest,
That truly is a magic carpet then !!
Glad to see you're posting some more picture threads again.
Walter
>>One sheet of glass will go behind all of this.<<
Forrest, that just calls out for some art glass. It would be more awsome than it already is with stained galss matching the mullions and back lighted from either you sons room or the vaulted room.
Betcha your DW can do it too.
I agree, you could go CRAZY w/different colours and glass bevels. Then when the light shines thru it you would get really cool rainbows.
plantlust - fantasizing about an oriel window w/beveled diamond shaped panes of glass...
Woodchuck. It's what's for dinner.
Ah - perceptive!
This was the original plan - I grew up with this on my window sash, a couple of pounds of hand-cut glass crystal inkwell. Enough lead to really make the rainbows.
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Not sure if I'll put it in this window, it's so out of the way, and doesn't get direct sun.
Forrest
Edited 3/30/2009 7:19 pm ET by McDesign
I had something like that on my window stool when I was a teenager. Left a nice scorch mark on the stained trim courtesy of Mr. Sun. I THINK my parents have forgiven me by now :)Nice work as usual. Look forward to seeing how it turns out.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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BwaHAhaHAHA!
plantlust - spending other peoples' money<smirk>
I'm tired of worrying about my job. I'm tired of this recession. I'm tired of worrying about money. I'm tired of war. I'm really REALLY tired of WINTER!
Installed today - still need to make the light box behind it, but the boy moves over tonight!
I made some little aluminum L-clips to hold the glass against the back of the window frame. I didn't have wood screws short enough, so I threaded #4 X 1/2" s in until the painted inside began to bulge, then unscrewed them, nipped off 3/16" or so, and screwed them back in.
The glass guys did a super job - it was hard to neck-in there after the big flared curves. They even radiused and polished that area to kill the stress riser. $49 for double-strength plate glass.View Image
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Forrest
Edited 4/11/2009 6:37 pm ET by McDesign
For chriss sake Forestt , get outta that office and back workin' so you can wow us with more of this stuff !!
All my thumbs up for that fine piece !!
Walter
it was hard to neck-in there
Necking is always a difficult prospect right behind a window, I find.
Ingenious per usual my friend. Always a pleasure to see your creations.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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<<The glass guys did a super job>>What i was thinking, too. Did you take in the frame or just a template? I'll bet they'd love to see pics at least.
Very nice indeed!
Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood
I took them the frame, and they used it as a template; then packing-taped the glass to it. I put my clips on before I removed the tape. The glass has never left the frame because I was afraid it would hinge there and snap.
Darned happy I got it up without breaking!
Would have been safer to do it in pieces, I think.
They did like the window - I've got to e-mail them a pic
Forrest
And fingers crossed it never has to be replaced!
OK, time to get crackin' on a yin-yang symbol...
time to get crackin
uh, I don't think that's the optimum expression for window making/installing"...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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Forrest, That's excellent. I think it's great to give your kids "special rooms", made by you, for them.I made each of my kid's a built-in platform bed, my daughter's is a "mousehole bed", my son has variation of that.Nice work there.
Cool! Got pix?
Forrest
Right here. And it is a really cool idea.http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=37445.9'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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Good memory to be able to find that!
For once the search here paid off. But I did remember running across that thread before. And I'm glad to have found it again. Have to think about building something similar in the near future.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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Okay - DW and the kids have seen that bed - they all want one!
Seriously, that's just the coolest bed - I had a book as a kid showing a Scandanavian one like that, and always wanted one.
May have to do something like that once I start on the attic playroom and bedroom.
Ah - wait. Actually, I'll HAVE to build one!
Forrest - lovin' this place
I built a similar one for my son, but he wanted a more open front, and he didn't want the raised paneling on the front. His room is semi halloweenish...a sort of a pumpkin and black color combo. With the same colored pumpkin/black cork on the walls. It looks much better in person than in photos, I think the strong colors throw off the white balance of the camera.
Mongo, that is the coolest bed for a kid. Nice work! Your children are lucky to have such a talented father. Would you elaborate on just how the front panel is fixed/removed from the unit on your daughter's mousehole bed?I have a 1-month old son and I'm filing that thread away for future reference. Super cool stuff....Edited to add: Forrest's Turkish window is pretty awesome as well...Edited 4/14/2009 1:59 pm ET by Ryan1
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Thanks Ryan.I don't want to hijack Forrest's thread so I'll try to start a new post with photos tomorrow. I built that bed years ago, so I think I have photos on a couple of different computers.
Ryan, here's the new thread:http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=118988.1Hope it helps!
I had just found it!
Post more!
Forrest
I think FHB had an article on Skandinavian beds.Oh, wait, i'm the queen of research...Issue 118, page 94.
You could replicate your Turkish design for the opening, no?Pretty soon we're going to be seeing you wearing a fez in your photos.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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We once did an addition for a lady that was an antique freak (and she was old too). She bought several stained glass piece from a architectural salvage company. We had window insert made out of some of them and she wanted one placed in a wall like Forest has, only there was only attic space behind it. We had the electrician back light it with a 4' florescent light and diffused the source more by placing a layer of 1/8" white Plexiglass in front of the fixture.
That one small piece got more compliments than the 8 other inserts we did in the doors and windows. The other pieces were beautiful themselves, but than one on the high wall inside the vaulted ceiling literally had an inner glow (g) that said "look at me".
I can see Forest's window with colors surrounding a beveled glass center. It would be awsome.
I think y'all have convinced me! - we've got tons of stuff here at work to make a diffuse lighted backplane - I even have a repaired color-changing driver and some RGB LEDs, so it could fade through a billion colors (1024x1024x1024), like that vid I posted, but with a several-hour cycle time.
I think it will be a cool nightlight for DS above his bed, and only use 10-12 watts.
Forrest - gonna' do it
Hooray!
I'm curious forrest how you laid out the frame work? Looks really cool in place . can't wait to see it with the light.
Thanks! As far as layout - I fooled around on AutoCAD until I got the proportions I wanted. The bottom is obviously just a rectangle, and the sides are actually circles bulging out above it. The top is a triangle of some angle, and I faired its straight legs into the circles, just bending a piece of aluminum into a smooth curve and tracing it from peak to tangent to the circle, and duplicating it on the other side. This gave my shape template. I filled in between the studs flush with 2x and plywood, cut away to this shape, drywalled over it, and sawed out the shape.
Then - drew the shape again on a piece of Baltic Birch, offset a cut line 1/4" to the inside all around (to slip into the RO), and offset it 3" to form the outside cut line. I cut all this with TS, bandsaw, and jigsaw as appropriate. Drum-sanded back to my lines.
Then, tacked in some 9/16" X 3-1/2" wide pieces of pine for the bottom straight pieces, leaving it 1/4" proud of the front surface for a detail line. Cut some strips of wiggle wood a bit long, then carefully nibbled them shorter until I could cram them against the curves on either side (bracing between the tops of the straight pieces at the waist). All nailed with 15gauge air nailer.
Fun project!
Forrest - had to bed down with the boy on the floor tonight - he was nervous in the new room
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Edited 4/11/2009 10:24 pm ET by McDesign