Saturday, January 16, 2010

Some Advantages Of Kitchen Bay Windows

By John Roberts

A kitchen bay window can be useful & it can look very nice in your room. It can bring a dark, unappealing room into light. Such a window is both practical and attractive. There are many advantages to owning a house with a kitchen bay window.

You may think that the addition of a kitchen bay window would make a lovely accent to your room. Nevertheless, apart from looks, there are several other reasons that are also essential in choosing a bay window for your kitchen.

The looks are definitely the primary reason for your purchase. There are 3 aspects to the appearance of the bay window. One is the window frame. Bay windows can have different types of frames. Most these days they are metal frames when you purchase them in the store, but you can place them in new woodwork to make them become to part of your home. If you have an older home, you can purchase used lumber to fashion you framework & sill from them instead. Whatever you do, make sure your window will be framed beautifully.

You also need to take into consideration the glass itself as a part of your window. When you are choosing how large to make the window, you also must decide how many sides that the bay window will have. This is because a bay window is made of three or more panes of glass joined together at angles. You can have a simple 3-pane window, or you can have many panes.

Bay windows specialize in streaming sunshine. sunshine streams into your kitchen and breakfast nook areas whenever the sun is in the proper direction. If your windows face east, of course you will get morning sunshine and if they face west, you will get afternoon sunshine. The natural light will brighten your kitchen in a way that no lighting fixture can do. Plus, the kitchen bay windows give an open feeling to a place that may otherwise seem too closed off.

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