Tag: dormer

Going upstairs #12

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Ludwigs Monday Windows

I have run out of dormers for the time being. Here are the last lot I like to
call Dormers – not Dormers.
Spied on buildings and camera at the ready and look later to find I was
fooled. This lot were on the roof of a part of the Nunnery so maybe this
was God telling me no more dormers 😂

I thought these were a bit low for dormer windows. I was right.
Dormer – not Dormer

I still would include this as a modern interpretation of a dormer concept.
Being a Federation Cottage era, there wouldn’t have been much roof space by
installing a traditional dormer. I don’t know how it got through Council
approval with a drastic modification from the heritage feel the city
should be preserving.

Going upstairs #11

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Ludwigs Monday Windows

I took this photo from a distance as it wasn’t in a friendly part of town. As
I seem to be running out of dormer window photos, this is the first of a
“not dormer window but may have been at some stage dormer.” This is a
very large residence which it looks like has been divided into flats. This
may explain the hodge-podge bit of work on the dormer that may not have
been a dormer.

Going upstairs #7

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Ludwigs Monday Window

I know I have banged on in the past few posts about going to the MotoFest
Car Show yesterday. What’s this got to do with Monday Window? No, not car
windows but that may come later if I start to run out of themes.

When I was heading back to my car, I took a short walk along the dead end
almost a road mainly to say g’day to a horse. What’s that got to do with
Monday Window? Yes it was for Monday Portrait opportunity. Pity the horse
was quite uncooperative.

OK back to being up the road a way. I looked across the paddocks and there
were two dormer windows. This is the closest clear photo.

The house was a reproduction build in the late eighties or early nineties, in a
turn of the century style. The house doesn’t have dormers on the road side of
the house.

This is a bad close up. No tripod and I was hot and thirsty so snap and go 😁

Going upstairs #6

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Ludwigs Monday Window

Another pretty dormer found in the search around town.

A well presented dormer but those curtains.

Did you notice anything else beside the dormers, I know it would have been hard to tear your eyes away! Both photos have dormer appreciative pigeons 😁

Going upstairs #5

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Ludwigs Monday Window

This has to be the cutest dormer I have found.
I found it by accident. I was in town but had things to do so it wasn’t a
dormer search day. I was driving absently and turned left at a
roundabout instead of right.

Yes a forehead slap was involved.

As I drove up that street to the next roundabout, I saw this dormer. Made
a wrong turn worthwhile as there are only a few houses on one side of
the street, so I may not have even driven down there on my search.

I hope I haven’t peaked too soon. It is just a wow. So tastefully done.

Going up stairs #4

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Ludwigs Monday Window

I did another drive around town on Saturday. This time I went into an older
area where a few more cottages have survived and have been well
maintained or renovated recently. I managed to find some more dormer
windows. A couple of times I saw a dormer window and thought “I get
that on the way back” but could I find them???? I know there are a couple
more….somewhere

Isn’t this house well presented?

It does seem a bit large for a dormer. I think it was a later addition but an
excellent copy of the houses style if it was.

I looked around and found “dormers should not occupy more than half the entire
width or depth of your roof” so I guess this dormer could squeeze in the
recommendations of the Carpenters and Remodeling Guild and also
perhaps what was called “Traditional Specifications” for The Cotswold
“The width was usually no more than about 1100mm (3′ 6”) and the overall height
about 1900mm (6′ 3”), with a roof pitch usually in excess of 45°.“