Show Use Neglected A Attic ti Area re to Create Creat Room I I th t w Vi I 1 f t Picture Window Easy to Install Frame Y Your our Good Views By JOHN JOliN A A. CARLTON REBUILDING a house like proverbial proverbial pro pro- womans woman's work Is never done Take my new picture window This wasn't part of the plan when my family and I remodeled a two-story two house In Larchmont N. N Y It took us four years of evening and weekend work but three years ago we moved Into our new home It was comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able Inviting and individual And it had a view too good not to make the most of Most folks have a scene from their living room that Is made up of the next door neighbors neighbor's garage But Dut through the three conventional type windows aligned align align- ed on one side of our living room I we could see a brook winding I down a grassy slope and tumbling tumbling ing over a rock It couldn't have been more picturesque if I had planned it that way So of course we had to have havea a picture window But picture windows can be expensive I shopped shopped shop shop- ped around for quite awhile and luckily saw just what I wanted on display at a home show A Bargain View It ft was made up of four horizontal hori hon zo tal rows of five glass squares framed In ponderosa pine with aluminum screens The top row of or windows opened out Individually individually dually on cranks and the two out outside outside outside side bottom windows opened into the room The rest of the square were permanent Because it was a display item I got it for a third of its usual cost The window purchased It was up to me to install it ft First I I had a builder check up on the houses house's supports to find out where I could cut around the window so the house wouldn't cave in We discovered that the frames of the old windows were not sup sup- ports I then reinforced with anI an I beam I-beam 1 the to top of the windows From then on it was mostly a matter of mea measuring sur I n g and cutting out the size of the hole to ft tt the slightly larger picture window I prepared everything on the inside first marking off and breaking down Then I built a platform outside outside out out- side from the ground to the bottom bottom bot bot- tom of the window both to stand standon on and to support the individual sections of picture window glass as they were being put In Early the next Saturday mornIng morning morn morn- Ing I ripped out the shell sheU from the outside Filling the openings with insulation came next Since I hat hati already measured measure ed and cut 2 x 4 boards in the proper lengths S the day before belore putting up the frame didn't take too long By nightfall all five sections of the picture window were In Cost Only The next day I built a 8 roof and bottom for tor the convex win win- dow For each I first built a 8 fr framework Then I added boarding board ing tacked on aluminum sheetIng sheet sheet- Ing for draining at each side aide and and then put gray composition shingles on top of that The roof had a slight overhang to keep the rain from falling on the windows At either side I wanted the same jonquil yellow shutters which had blended so attractive attractive- attractively ly Iy against the gray shingles of the e house But the picture window was higher than the old windows I solved this problem Inexpensively Inexpensive ly Iy by buying an old shutter from froma a wrecking outfit and cutting It Itin Itin Itin in two I attached a half to each of the original shorter shutters repainted and there w were ware For FOI a total of not more than Utan I t had something that would have ve ceet me at ast a 8 thousand If a contractor had done it lt The new window changed the tho whole character of the house for the better Outside It gave Ita Ita it ita a streamlined modern modem look In In- sid side aid with draw drapes drapel it was dramatic Aad at last Jat that wonderful ful v view tw had a proper frame name M From an orphan attic used as a storage room for cast cast- oUSt otis this smart extra room has been created with ARMSTRONGS ARMSTRONGS ARMSTRONG'S ARMSTRONGS ARM STRONGS STRONG'S Interior finish This Is 5 an economical dry wall construction panel that thata a handy man can Install I |