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If
bay windows are too expensive, a very desirable substitute can
be had by placing two ordinary sized windows side by side with a
wide capacious ledge at the bottom for seats or for plants.
A
room with a window like this cannot fail to be cheery, and its
effect in a simple cottage house is quite sumptuous. There is
likewise in its favor the fact that it is less exposed than the
deep bay window to outer heat and cold.
In
a kitchen or in a child’s bedroom, or in an attic where the
walls are low, two half-windows set side by side and made to
slide or to open on hinges, admit a broad, generous light, and
give an apartment a pretty and pleasing rustic air.
In the country,
with a whole sky to draw from, let there be light! If any rooms
in the house must look solely to the north for illumination, let
them be the parlor and the spare chamber. People who come and go
can be cheerful for a while in a north-windowed apartment, but
the constant dwellers in a house need its sunniest rooms.
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