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Unlike house windows, which
rarely allow choice of view or sunshine, garden buildings can be
oriented for favourite views and optimum sunshine. Belleweather seek to play this to advantage by offering customers a choice of window sizes and styles to frame the views as prettily as possible. All our windows have solid 3-dimensional glazing bars built into double-glazed panels sealed away for life. Just because sunlight is beautiful it doesn’t necessarily mean that more light will automatically be more beautiful and in an office or studio too much light creates its own problems, so we include the small round windows which can spread the light and avoid the harshness of a single point light source. 'Folly'
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Different effects using essentially the same ‘folly’ window design. |
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| All the windows currently available are shown here. Different lighting effects can be created by moving the windows selected to other walls and by combining them in different ways. Light can be direct, indirect, borrowed, reflected, overhead and distributed. | |||
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For example, the exterior
effect of ‘folly’ windows can be enlarged by using the new ‘folly
shutters’. These are hand-made with a wooden core and finished with a
‘distresswood’ coat in resin composites to provide a fit & forget
product with superb long term weathering properties.
The new ‘Deckhôuse’ walls
are large enough to take pairs, or multiples, of ‘folly’ windows as
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Images may be clicked to view at larger scale. |
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| The sealed units are normally 4mm glass, 20mm bars, 4mm glass, toughened when necessary but can be varied to differing thicknesses or even triple glazed for enhanced acoustic insulation. | |||
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For 2004, the range of Round
window options is enhanced. We continue to offer the ‘Diamond Cross’
version shown here,
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and there are new versions,
which we are calling the ‘Roundelle’….. Name origin |
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| and The ‘Patternlight’ version which is equally effective in the Gazebo or….. |
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| in the Patternlight sloping roof panels, giving overhead light. |
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| Having worked for some years using the prototypes above my studio, I became convinced that a set of round windows grouped roughly as a conventional skylight produced the wrong sort of light with too much glare at one point and too much shadow at another. The final version of our “Patternlight” panels now distributes the light more evenly over the entire roof area, another Belleweather innovation. | |||
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Large Bower Windows |
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| The large ‘Bower’ windows are now available framed in an African hardwood |
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…..and when fitted to one of
the Summerhouse buildings open up one entire wall allowing customers to
move chairs to exactly the amount of sun or shade required. |
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| For 2004, these hardwood doors are available in a hardwood surround pre-fitted with draught excluder strip for greater comfort in out of season use. | |||
