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Why Tint Windows Of Your House?
If you tint windows of your home you will benefit from the following:
-Reduced energy bill. If your house is being cooled by an air-conditioning system, cooling costs is most likely responsible for almost half of the energy bill. If you tint windows of your home, the insulation becomes better since the film blocks infrared that carry heat through your windows. Tint keeps the coolness inside so you don’t have to turn up your AC to a higher temperature.
-Stylish. There is more variety when it comes to home window tint compared to automotive tint. There are more colors, shades, patterns, and designs. There is no limit to how much tint you can put on home windows unlike car windows that are restricted by state laws.
-Protection for your furniture. UV damages anything it touches. Colors of carpets, curtains, couches, and wooden furniture fade after some time of exposure to the sun. If you tint windows at home, UV is blocked and you would not have to replace your furniture because of damage.
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Etched into the windows of a building on the UCSF Mission Bay campus
Windows of the Museum of Contemporary Art decorated to promote their exhibition "The Octopus Eats It's Own Leg" consisting of the work of Takahashi Murakami.
Sets of windows at the old dairy on Best Road between Mt Vernon and La Conner
Olympus Pen-F
Olympus 12-100
Free texture for you to use in your artwork. Please credit me with a link and I'd love to see your work in the comments. (small size please)
I was playing with the light settings to try to get this effect of the shutters outlining the shot. View the FlickrSkin: Landscapes and Seasons: by Ace Starry
A window display in the cake shop and tearoom in High Street, Lavenham. The shot was taken on a late afternoon just after Christmas. The reflections of a parked car and the buildings on the opposite side of High Street can be seen in the window.
Happy 2014 to one and all!
I walked all over Beacon Hill in the rain this past week. It really was fun because it wasn't raining too hard. Daffodils were everywhere in the window boxes. I guess every one dressed up their homes for Easter. Since the only gardens are the ones "hidden" in back yards, window boxes are "the thing." These bright and cheery daffodils (even in the rain) are only two of the ones I saw.
East window in All Saints' church, Waldringfield, Suffolk. Attributed by Birkin Haward to Lavers & Barraud. c1864. This window, showing the Baptism of Christ, the Crucifixion and the Last Supper was installed in the church during the Victorian reconstruction of the 1860s.
It is sometimes referred to as the Coprolite window, as the restoration was financed from the profits of the local Coprolite trade, a thriving business at the time, in which nodules were dug out of the glebe lands, washed on the nearby beach, then transported by barge down the Deben to Ipswich, where it was mixed with sulphuric acid to make an early form of superphosphate fertiliser.
Detail of the First World War memoral window in the north choir aisle transept by James Eadie Reid 1921 (moved here in 1936 from its original location in the north aisle of the nave).
Worcester Cathedral is the commanding presence on the skyline of the city, perched on high ground overlooking the River Severn. It is one of England's most rewarding cathedrals, though denied first rank status owing to the heavy handed Victorian restorations it underwent, an unavoidable consequence of being built of soft red sandstone (a problem shared with Chester and Lichfield) and thus a 19th century feel pervades inside and out in it's mostly renewed external stonework and furnishings.
The cathedral impresses with it's scale, one or our longer churches, crowned by a magnificent central tower (originally surmounted by a lead spire, lost sometime after the Reformation; subtle alterations to the tower's design were made when it was refaced in the Victorian restoration) and with a secondary pair of transepts flanking the choir (as at Salisbury, Lincoln, Rochester & Canterbury). Of the former monastic buildings the cloister and Norman chapter house have survived (along with the refectory, now part of neighbouring King's School), making this a more complex and enjoyable building to explore.
The earliest parts are of the Norman period with the superb 12th century crypt under the choir. The west end of the nave is also Norman work, though very late and unusual in design, with transitional pointed arches. However the bulk of the building we see dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, the east end in Early English Gothic style (where most of the windows were restored to stepped lancets by Sir George Gilbert Scott during the Victorian restoration, having been altered over the centuries), whilst the remainder of the nave and tower largely of the Decorated period (the cathedral originally also possessed a detached octagonal bell tower with a lead spire, which stood near the north east corner but was demolished in 1647).
Of the original furnishings little remains beyond the fine set of misericords in the choir stalls. The stained glass too is nearly entirely Victorian (only some meagre, much restored medieval fragments survive in traceries of the south aisle). Much of the Victorian glass is quite impressive, particularly the great east and west windows by Hardman's of Birmingham.
Worcester is however especially rich in tombs and monuments of all periods, with medieval effigies of bishops, knights and ladies, not all in good condition but worth seeking out. There are also several large tombs from the post-Reformation period (especially in the cluttered south aisle) and some fine Baroque work in the north transept.
The most significant of the monuments here are Royal; in the centre of the choir lies the fine 13th century effigy of King John, best remembered for signing the Magna Carta. Nearby is the superb chantry chapel of Prince Arthur, elder brother of Henry VIII, whose premature death aged 15 changed England forever (one of the most pivotal moments in our history, had he survived the Reformation may never have happened). The gorgeous late Perpendicular Gothic chapel stands to the south of the High Altar and is remarkable for it's rich sculpted detail.