In article , Pat Meadows wrote:


We have the most annoying windows in this house - quite new
ones, installed just before we bought the house. The
window-sills are only about 4" wide AND there's a ridge down
the middle of them, God knows why. NOTHING will go on them.
Nothing.

I do have the big bay window ledge, which is about 8' x 2',
but I cannot use any other window sills.


In my previous house, I screwed in those adjustable-shelf thingies on both
sides of several windows -- the metal things with little slots all the way
up. You then hang a metal bracket in the slots, match it up on the other
side, and put a board across the brackets.

I put a lip around each of the boards by nailing on trim strip, mitred at
the corners, but it's not absolutely necessary.

I got 4 shelves marching up each of 3 windows, and put plants, glassware,
and cats in them. Well, the cats put themselves...


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Marie Martinek
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA