Bay Windows?

[xm39hnu]

There are two distinct types of bay windows. Type #1: In the true bay window, the floor protrudes into the bay; you can walk into the bay, or situate furniture in it.

The other type (Type #2) is the one I need the correct term to describe. It has the bay protruding from the wall, but the window just sticks out of the wall from the sill up. You can't walk into it, nor can you place furniture in it. It doesn't add to GLA, whereas type #1 does. What do you call these things in order to differentiate them from true bay windows?

 

[Andrew Ries]

I call your type 1 a bay window and your type 2 a bow window as it is not a bay as you stated but does bow out from the house wall, a very common upgrade in some cookie cutters around here.

 

[Rich Hahn]

Bay 1
Bay 2

Bow, Bay
Bay, Bow

Remember its not rocket science.

Rich

 

[Andrew Ries]

I have heard of them being called “walkout bay” and just “bay” before but I didn’t like that too much.

 

[DonPearsall]

I know exactly what you are referring to, as I run into them all the time. I don't think there is a specific term for a non-GLA bay window, but you could call it a "bump out".

By the way, a bow window is a long rounded bump out, not at all like the anguar bay window. It usually does not add to the GLA.

Don Pearsal
Seattle

 

[moh malekpour]

How about Garden Window where they can put flowers and plants

 

[jtrotta]

Boxed Bay

ask one of your local builders, "names change" - it's part of the living document we all live in


h34r:

 

[Jo Ann Meyer Stratton]

If you can walk on the floor of the bay window which consists of one straight line and two angled sides it is a bay window.

If the walk on area and window consists of many small angles so that the area is curved it is an oriel window.

If it can't be walked on and is only sill deep it is a cantilevered bay or oriel window.

If it has two right angled sides it is a box window.

If the window has floor area that can be walked on, it is included in the livable area.

If only sill deep than it is not included in the livable area.

 

[xm39hnu]

Cantilevered bay!! Thanks Jo Anne. That's the term I couldn't dredge up.

I not only got what I asked for; I got a new term as well: Oriel. Never heard that one before. (Love this forum!)

I try to use the "correct" descriptive terms in my reports, regardless of local custom, even though additional explanation is required.

Many thanks to all who posted.

 

[Farm Gal]

Local usage here is "Oriel window" rather than "Cantilevered".

County appraisers in this area officially designate these on the ICS/GLA sheets as 'overhang living area/oriel window' whether the space below the window contains storage, or if the window seat is finished such that it can be used for seating the area 'extends' living space (even if diagonally cantilevered from floor to outside edge of the seat)..

Local convention is to count it as usable area under those conditions, as it meets ANSI for headroom and 'finished space' despite not following the foundation footprint, in other words treat it as if it were true "horizontally cantilevered" floor area.