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Colonial NE style: Widow Walk
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lugnet.build.arch
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Sun, 19 Aug 2001 03:04:55 GMT
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Hi y'all,
You know those obnoxious, useless brown slope/arch pieces from the Slave 1?
(8x2x2s, two in each set; almost fit a 45 deg. slope) If you bought a few
copies, you probably ended with many more of those than you wanted.
Well, I found a use for them!
A widow walk on a colonial, New-England setting house. Basically, many of
these sea-facing houses had a flat-topped roof so that the fishermen's wives
could walk the roof while waiting for their husbands and scanning the ocean.
Why "widow walk" then, you ask? Well... if the husband never returned - well
- you get the picture. Sad... :-(
Anyhow, though, these 8x2x2s pieces can be used to make an excellent widow
walk. Just line up a few of them, then leave a gap of four (more or less)
studs, and some more of those. In the gap, place 45-degree slopes top get to
that level... attach them on the bottom... and there you have it! I also
added 1x2 slopes on either end and filled in with brown bricks... plus I
added a trapdoor so rain wouldn't come in. Unfortunately, I have no pics
because the pieces weren't mine, and I did take pics but they turned out
corrupt. Hopefully you can figure it out... sorry. :-(
Let me know if this idea was of any help to ya!
-Shiri
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Colonial NE style: Widow Walk
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| Shiri I looked for an actual photo of a widow walk but couldn't find one. Excuse my poor literary explanation. You have the basic idea but most certainly need at least some kind of railing (so the widow doesn't die as well). A lot of the widow walks (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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