Monday 12 April 2010

Romantic casement windows

All the casement windows are now installed in our bedroom.  They are just waiting on the finishing touches, but at least the fiddly part of hanging the windows is over.



I was hasty in my comments about Jason deriving great satisfaction from manual work. After the weekend, there is definitely no fear of Jason giving up his day job and seeking a builder's apprenticeship.

What an ordeal! The colourful language used when things aren't going exactly to plan would make the most hardened prison warden blush. I would never have believed how difficult it was to hang windows...

After seeing how many times those windows were adjusted to make them open and shut properly, I will never take another timber casement window for granted.

There was one major casualty. A window slipped out of Jason's hands while he was removing it from its hinges, shattering into pieces onto the concrete path below. Fortunately, it was the old window he was replacing, not the new. 

Self-preservation prevented me from my usual blog paparazzi thing. The camera would have been trampled on if I had taken a photograph of the incident.

Ah...the romance of tangible results after a hard day's work, figuratively and literally, went out the window.

9 comments:

  1. Well done Jason, you rock! They look so fantastic.cheers Katherine

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  2. The windows look wonderful. How nice to be able to open them up like that! What a great job, well done! xx

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  3. haha... i love your paparazzi comment. i just get a visual of the whole thing and it makes me laugh
    they really do look amazing tho... bravo to your dude.
    ~laura

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  4. Beautiful, beautiful windows Anita. Do you just keep having to have another look? Yay Jason, what a trooper.
    btw I entered a hideous mirror in that Freedom comp. You're right, there is some ugliness alright.
    Angex

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  5. I understand the need to put aside your paparazzi tendencies when things are so delicate. Wow Anita, those windows look just gorgeous. What teamwork!

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  6. Yep, pink, abstract mirror, that's me,lol
    Only problem is my email's down so hope they're not trying to get in touch to tell me I won!
    Angex

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  7. They look fabulous. A great indoors/outdoors space connection, and you can be Juliet at your casement while Jason speaks eloquent poetry below. I hope that suggestion doesn't upset him.

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  8. Sometimes you just have to keep the mouth closed and camera discretly out of sight. Great job.

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  9. I just love those windows. And windows are HARD to install. He's done a great job!

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