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Create a Faux Window
with Imitation Sunlight |
Create a Fake Window to Add Light and Beauty to a Dark
Room
A faux window, sometimes called a fake window, is an ideal
solution for a dark or windowless room. Unlike a landscape
painting, a faux window gives the illusion of a real window
and so creates a feeling of open space.
A mural can achieve the same effect, but a mural is
expensive to commission from an artist. But anyone can make
a fake window. It’s easy and cheap to do, and the choice of
view is entirely up to you.
You can even dress your faux
window with window treatments, like a blind, curtain or
valance, to complete the illusion that your fake window is
real. Such window treatments can hide a neon light hung over
the faux window, for the added illusion of sunlight
streaming in through the fake window frame.
As you read the steps of this fun faux window project, start
imagining the kind of view you always wished you could have.
For now, you will.
Make a Faux Window: Step #1. The
Window Frame:
For your fake window frame you have two choices. Look for an
old window frame in a garage sale or on Craig’s List. Or buy
a faux window picture frame, which has panels the standard
size of photos (for example 4 x 6). The advantage to the
latter is that this kind of faux window will come with
glass, which will increase the illusion of a real window
when the project is done.
Make a Faux Window: Step #2. The
Perfect View:
This is the best part of the faux window project. Now
you get to choose the perfect view. All Posters has a
fantastic selection of landscape posters, from forest views
to mountaintops, the English countryside to Madison county’s
covered bridges. Here’s what you should keep in mind when
choosing the perfect view for your faux window:
• The Size: know in advance the
size of your faux window. The poster you choose has to fit
these dimensions, or be just a little bigger. So don’t fall
in love with the perfect view just to realize that the
poster isn’t wide or tall enough.
• The Season: if you choose a
winter landscape, just bear in mind that it will look fake
in summer. Season-neutral images will look more real in a
fake window. And yet, half the fun of the faux window
project is the chance to have your perfect view year round,
even if that means Autumn leaves in spring.
• The Perspective: if you want
your fake window to look very real, try to match the view in
your faux window to that outside your real windows. If other
windows face a tree and a street, then choose a poster with
a tree in a picturesque garden.
• The Image Depth: up-close
images tend to look more real in a faux window, simply
because most window views are of up-close scenery, like the
house across the street or the trees in your garden.
However, if you are willing to give up on realism a little,
here is your chance to have a sweeping view of a mountaintop
or a lake.
• The Setting: if you live in
Alaska and choose a Tropical Island poster for your faux
window, the view will look out of place and fake. It’s best
to choose a perfect view that will appear harmonious to your
home environment.
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