Odd window goes along with conservatory project
Here is a picture of a very odd window which some of our shop guys just finished building. Notice that none of the corners are 90 degree right angles! It is not an optical illusion. This would not be all that odd- except that the window opens. It is very difficult to make an operable window that does not have a regular geometry.
The top edge of this window follows the roofline of a dormer, the lower edge follows the roofline of the main house below and the short side and the side opposite it are parallel to each other.
The window is part of a shipment of windows that went along with one of our conservatory projects, but was for a different part of the house.
The client chose Tanglewood for the project in part because of our ability and willingness to tackle difficult, unusual requests such as the above window. This window took several attempts and many design changes before we could get it to work properly.
The discovery and invention of new things is one of the parts of our business that I like the most. Whether it is a funky window or a very different conservatory design or a new way of manufacturing that is more efficient, the process of continually inventing and improving upon what we do here at Tanglewood is very exciting for me.
There is of course a certain amount of risk that a company wanting to pursue a more conservative path would not incur. Sometime we get bitten, but not often. Over the years we’ve learned how to approach the unusual and we gathered people around us who share our interest and vision.
Not long ago, a potential client who wanted a really unusual greenhouse expressed his concern because we candidly admitted that we had not done anything like it before. I told him “we had never done anything like it before- but we do it all the time”. He understood what I meant- that we do what we’ve never done before all the time and he could see that we know how to do it!
Impressed with our work, which he could clearly see had the quality he was looking for, he gave us the job. Skeptical at first, he is now one of our most ardent proponents.
I hope we never stop “doing what we’ve never done before” here at Tanglewood. Many of our customers and friends do as well.
Alan