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Those of us in crowded cities drool over apartments with giant windows. But big windows raise an apartment's price exponentially, and for good reason: a view of the outdoors provides all sorts of quality of life and health benefits. So what can you do if your apartment doesn't have them? Take a page out of Thomas Struth's book. In the early 90s Struth created a number of large photographs like the one above for a hospital in Switzerland, depicting the nearby countryside. This gave small hospital rooms the illusion of large windows and brought the outdoors in to lift patients' spirits and help them recover.
The same approach can do wonders for an apartment's windowless rooms and long dark hallways. You can follow Struth's example and mount a poster-sized print alone or go a more artsy direction and group a number of photos in varying sizes on the same wall. To achieve the soothing effects of real windows, keep your photos to a single topic (like snowy hills or the beach) and make sure all your scenes have lots of sunlight in them.
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What if you bought a small window frame, maybe even with some panes, and framed the photo in that frame? Might be fun to try to simulate the actual window.
Posted by: Barbara at March 15, 2006 11:32 AM
