WINDOW STYLES

Evening Star, Issue 21822, 11 September 1934, Page 2

WINDOW STYLES

THE EFFECT OH APPEARAHCE Windows are like features. The .suppression of windows in the Pantheon in Paris makes of this building an expressionless whole, and, according as

windows are long or short, according as they are French or English, so the house alters its mood and becomes long-faced or short, cheerful or forbidding, dignified or vulgar. In no way has modern building changed the face of houses more than in the matter of windows, says an English exchange. This is due to several causes, two of which are the employment of concrete and the use of steel window frames. One change is in the adoption of a sort of French window' which is not tall, but is set on its long side. This gives a long continuous window suitable for* a uot-too-high room and providing a pleasant interior light. Another change is the adoption of a large window which is broad, but is higher than it is broad. Tliis space might he thought difficult to make interesting. It is, however, divided, as it were, horizontally. As against perhaps two downward divisions there is a number of horizontal divisions which arc well marked and which give a very pleasing effect. The divisions are perhaps tw'ice as long as they are broad. The narrow steelwork allows of bright colouring which emphasises i the. division. Another form of window which is exceedingly pleasant is one which occupies a corner. That is to say, the whole corner or right angle of the building is of glass, enabling the owner to look out in two directions. This also is made possible for the steel frame and construction. At present it is chiefly used for utilitarian buildings such as signal boxes, but it should also be possible in the private house where it would give a pleasant effect. Amateurs who do small jobs of papering in their homes may find the labour simplified considerably if the paste is applied to the wall instead of to the paper. This makes the handling and trimming of the strips on the table much easier, and there is less danger of soiling or tearing.