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House Hunt: Intriguing Windows

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Windows can occur at inconvenient places in a house. I always marvel at the wooden casement above the bathtub in my own home. It wouldn't be inconvenient if I didn't prefer showers — and if the renovators of my home hadn't added a shower system. But I do, and they did. My solution is a second and opaque shower curtain for privacy and, more importantly, to keep water off that casement.

One of this week's homes —- 1792 Ridgeway Ave. — has a glass-fitted opening in the wall of its shower, too. I hesitate to call the opening a window, as its shape and position near the ceiling suggest what homes of a certain era possess above doors: a transom. A proper transom truly opens, however, and I think that function has gone away in most modern windows of this type. The capability to open (or to be open) gives us the (largely outmoded) publishing expression for unsolicited manuscripts as ones that arrive over the transom, that is, dropped into an office by an author.

But I digress. The transom-shaped window above the shower/bath at 1792 seems to me the ideal way to admit natural light yet also preserve a bather's modesty. This handsome frame house also has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a screened back porch, an extensive back yard surrounded by wooden fencing, and a two-car garage with a one-bedroom/one bathroom apartment atop it.

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The home at 3310 W. Roxboro Road also has some transom-shaped windows, but they are in places I'm used to seeing transoms — above doors. The front and back doors at No. 3310 also have small windows (sidelights?) bracketing them. The rear door opens onto a deck that overlooks a back yard that includes a brook and a footbridge for crossing it.

A very traditional two-story brick structure, No. 3310 has four bedrooms, three bathrooms (plus a half), and an exercise room on the terrace level. It has marble counters in the kitchen, a marble sink in the master bath, and a granite bath downstairs.

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