Restoration Hardware Windows: Types of Windows.—Windows in common use are of several types, depending upon the style of architecture and the taste or preference of the builder. Perhaps still the most popular is the double-hung window. It has two sashes that slide up and down with the aid of weights on cords or chains running over pulleys at the top and concealed in pockets inside the casing. More modem restoration hardware windows includes spring clips that hold the sash in place by compression against the jamb. Casement windows are hinged vertically at the sides and usually open outward, manually or by means of a crank or handle operating a simple chain of gears, although they may be hinged to open inward instead. There are unnumbered varieties, sizes, qualities, and mechanical designs for restoration hardware windows, and the manufacturers' catalogs appear very confusing to those who are not accustomed to this branch of decorative equipment. While a decorator should have a knowledge of the ornamental forms of metalwork that may be required for certain types of doors or furniture, the mechanical design should be checked by a manufacturer's representative or restoration hardware windows dealer. Serious and quite unexpected errors may easily be made in the proper sizes and types of hinges and locks to be used, even under the simplest conditions. The great majority of rooms today are furnished with the ordinary, commercial stock-pattern types of restoration hardware windows, but in the best decorative work the restoration hardware windows is specially designed and made to order. The latter type is, of course, far more costly and requires more time to produce. A description of the many available types of restoration hardware windows used by decorators would occupy too much space for the purposes of this book. The reader must be referred to the commercial catalogs of restoration hardware windows dealers or to the craftsmen who make special-order restoration hardware windows and metalwork.

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