Monday, 21 December 2009

Why Get Bay Windows For Your Kitchen

By Bruce Roberts

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

The addition of a kitchen bay window would make a lovely accent to your room, but that might be all you're thinking of. You might not be thinking any further than that, but other reasons, apart from looks, are also important in choosing a bay window for your kitchen.

The looks would definitely be a major cause for your purchase. There are 3 aspects to the appearance of kitchen bay windows. One is the window frame. Bay windows come with different types of frames. Nowadays they are metal frames when you buy them from the store, but you can seat them in new woodworking to let them more a part of your house. If you have an older house, you can buy used lumber to fashion you framework & sill from them instead. Whatever you do, make sure your window will be framed attractively.

You also need to put into consideration the glass itself as a part of your window. If 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 glass panes put together at angles. You can have many panes, or you can have a simple three-pane window.

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

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