Thursday, May 27, 2010

A house with no windows.

Straight out with it I personally don't like having windows in my home. Is "seeing out" the motive for windows? Can't that be done quite cheaply these days, with outdoor camera's? Or even a periscope if you must.

Oh the Lighting? I just have to have the lighting. Skylights can do that. Better yet, have you ever reflected the light from the sun onto a building or into someone's eyes by tilting a small even broken off piece of a mirror? Ha, you know you have. If not, go, now if the sun is out, take a hand mirror, make the sun ricochet off of it. Now, Can't you lay those out in such a fashion to keep the sun reflected down into your house through a mirrored light tunnel with openings wherever you want?

The breeze? Really? You live somewhere that moderate that you don't need to change the outdoor temperature the majority of the year? Well even then the rest of the year, windows have long been the culprits for reducing the effectiveness of heaters and air conditioners. But with no windows even that occasional fresh air day would be missed. No, Install crankable roof vents like most every camping trailer has, only fix it where you can rotate the lid around so you'd want it round instead of square. That way the lid "catches" the wind and bounces it down into your house.

Oh ya, windows...an escape in a fire. Yes. Also a frequent entry point for criminals there to rob, or worse. An emergency escape door or hatch would do the same thing for you with less risk.

Habit. Well, imagine putting flat screens in a "looks like a window frame" with curtains. opening curtains turns on the lcd monitor and gives you a full camera view of what is out that window, you can change it to look a different way, or change it to play a scene as if that window were looking out over the ocean.

Hail storms...Got any clue how many times the most serious damage was to the windows and then the resulting storm coming through the now busted out window and wiping out your laptop that was setting on the sofa.

Claustrophobic? Use many mirrors, much lighting, and you have more room for very scenic calming paintings. Or have one small porthole by your chair if you must.

But all in all, I give "Windows" a thumbs down.

6 comments:

emc said...

I can tell you don't have many houseplants :-)

Ger said...

get your pic program any of your lcd window substitutes to be a flowerbed of your choice...watch it grow even.

Ger said...

or you could build the window to be a porthole to view into, to see the lcd rendering of a digital view from an underwater viewing.

Marbella said...

I have always believed that only bats and people with something to hide would want to live in the dark.

Marbella said...

okay, I will hush after this gem of wisdom, God tells us not to put our light under a bushel, but let it shine.

Mcleary said...

i would need windows, but i'm with you on the hail storms.