Screen room for summer sleeping
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I want to make the porch of this room into a screen room for summer sleeping. I was getting ready to fiddle with the structural possibilities when the need to render overwhelmed me.
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I like the reflection of the photographer. I'm waiting for the after shot ! Sleeping on a roof/terrace or under something light, airy or transparent is a super luxury. This will be for daytime sleeping ? The ultimate indulgence ! I like the idea of day beds that you often find in classic office scenes.
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Now, that I have a chance to study what I have done, I realize the 2D person is about the size of Yao Ming, the basketball player from China. Also I should have deleted myself from the glass reflection as there is no person seated on the wall to be reflected in the glass. Or perhaps I am a werewolf and cast no reflections.
It will be for night time sleeping during the summer months when night temps are in the 75-90F range. We are at 4,800ft so we are comfortable in the summer even though nighttime temps up north in Phoenix can get to 105F.
This is the guest bedroom so we will wait to see if anyone is eaten by bear or Mt. lion. If not, we will extend the screen to our own master bedroom.
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I believe a werewolf should be a match for a bear or mountain lion.
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When the space is enclosed, I want to do Bahamian hurricane shutters. That might seem a strange choice for Arizona, but it actually gives the security, shade, and a breeze catching functions I need. Since our main fear is grass fires I will do them in metal, however the cost may be a deal killer.
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Roger take a look at the Kaufmann House by Richard Neutra. It features an upper lounging area with adjustable metal fins.I think it's called a gloriette.
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@chedda said:
Roger take a look at the Kaufmann House by Richard Neutra. It features an upper lounging area with adjustable metal fins.I think it's called a gloriette.
The Kaufmann house's vertical persian blinds, when open, always offer an interior view from some and angle but not others. The Bahamian meta1 shutters have a fixed angle and when the shutters are down the only inward view is to lay on the ground and look up to the ceiling. When the shutters are propped up, the blades are edge on to both the view and the breeze and will not admit direct sun until just before sunset. My goal is to cut energy usage to a minimum. At 4,800 feet even Arizona summer temps are tolerable outdoors in the shade and at night it is exquisite. In winter, we will move the bed inside, and the sitting room outside. And in the winter I will replace the bug screens with plastic glazing and run passive solar heat into the porch. That is the plan.
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@roger said:
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I want to make the porch of this room into a screen room for summer sleeping. I was getting ready to fiddle with the structural possibilities when the need to render overwhelmed me.
Wow jealous, wish I had a summer nap room...
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Liam, Sonoita has many good things, but some consider it a one horse town. Technically this is not true. It only has one major intersection (major meaning it has a set of stop signs on both sides of the road), but a lot of horses. It was also the subject of an Alfred Hitchcock film called "Escape to Sonoita." The problem with the Hitchcock portrayal is that Hitchcock couldn't find the town in Arizona so he shot the film in California. The other problem is that in his intro to the film he mispronounces the name of the town calling it Sono-ita as if it were a Spanish word. Locals also get the name wrong, calling it Sah-noyta. However the name is really from the native Tohono O'Odham language and is pronounced Son noy tac (with a glottal stop on the "Tac" and means "where the corn grows." On the bad side, the town isn't big enough to support a real grocery store and if you do want corn or any other fresh edible you have to make an 80 mile round trip. On the good side and a reason for having a nap room is that we have about 12 wineries between Sonoita and Elgin which comprise the greater metropolitan Sonoita/Elgin metropolitan area. Elgin is a bit smaller. Now as small as the place is, it does have some history. The Americans sent about 8,000 troops and the Mexicans sent about 2,000 troops to capture about 39 Apache Indians and after about 10 years trapped the famous chief Cochise in an Army tent using the guise of treaty talks. But Cochise took out a knife and cut through the back of the tent and ran back into the hills. I can see that location from my house. So as you can imagine, day naps are a major activity here (well technically a non-active activity and we are proud of our naps and the accessories that make them enjoyable.
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I have a second lot next to this house and I was fantasizing about what I could build there. The lot is a flat downhill slope intersected by a long hillock down the center of the lot. The feature is prominent, but still too small to register on Google earth or topo maps. I was outside cutting grass and removing dead branches from my trees when a series of three small helicopters flew over. The were all different colors but the same make. When I went in town I learned this was a small company selling tourist rides at the county fair. The light went on and I realized I could orbit over my house with a camera and run the photo set through 123D Catch. Thirty five dollars would have gotten me only a loop of the fair ground. $70 would have given me 12 minutes and enough range to circle my property twice. Then I decided I would hold off until I could get some geometric panels to to set up some pre-measured ground targets to verify key distances. The targets or "control points" also would make hand stitching easier and more accurate. If all the pilots are still alive the next time there is an event that attracts there flyers I will have my marker panes ready to go.
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