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Would This Fake Window Fool You? | I Like To Make Stuff

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[Iliketomakestuff]

This room isn't officially listed as bedroom because it doesn't have secondary egress. But, right outside that door, there are two egress windows where Josh and his son practice fire escape. Thank you for your concern, they've addressed this issue when they bought the house. We hope you enjoy the intent of the video, making the space better for his family.

[annsdecor]

This is absolutely stunning! For years now I've been researching how to do a window like this. I saw it at IKEA, and I've been making calls and asking questions for several years now about how this was done. I thought about putting different types of lighting's behind tempered glass, but the lights wasn't evenly distributed. I don't know how, after all these years of me searching, this popped up. I literally have tears in my eyes right now. Words can not express how I feel right now. All I can say is, "THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!"💝 NS

[oldtimefarmboy]

I saw where a neighbor did the same thing but he used big flat screen televisions mounted in the wall and then hooked each window to a separate wide view camera mounted outside the same distance apart as the televisions. He set the television's setting to as close to outside light as possible and then left them on all of the time. That way anybody inside the room could see what was going on outside all day and all night and as long as you did not get too close, like look down the side of the building close, it really gave the feeling of being a widow to the outside.

[dnwheeler]

DIY Perks did a similar project using backlight panels from broken LCD televisions. The advantage of that is the TV backlighting has a Fresnel lens that essentially aligns/focuses the light to shine straight out, resulting in shadows that don't change with distance. This mimics the effect of a light source at an infinite distance - more like the sun.

[waveformdistortion]

Rather than a timer, I think it would be cool to rig something up with a light sensor placed upstairs so that the "windows" could mirror actual conditions as they change with the seasons or the daily weather.

[EvanAndKatelyn]

Such a cool idea! Wonder what they would look like with blinds now...

[jmixes]

All of the negative comments on this video are cracking me up. He isn't being forced to live down there, that's his room and this is a vast improvement. I highly doubt there is just a spare bedroom lying around that he could be in instead, if he hated this room they wouldn't have made this video. There's absolutely nothing creepy about fake windows like this, daylight-colored lightbulbs are just fake sunlight - adding a window shape just makes it feel more natural.

[UncleJessy]

Perfect timing! I just saw some long flat light panels at Costco and was thinking they’d make for nice basement fake windows. This is another level of amazing.

[richhagenchicago]

I had some LED lights that I built for a project, and I had some left over. I wired them directly to a solar panel in dark area like the room your project is in. They would light up proportionate to how bright it was outside, similar to a window. Interestingly, in a thunderstorm they would even flash dimly from lightning strikes at night. They have been there for 15 plus years now.

[Ghreak]

I worked for abouth 6 years mostly as a retoucher in a quiet dark room. The illusion of real winodws would helped a lot. A window with or without light can change a lot in your daily mood

[rall]

A few years back, I was obsessed with renovation shows, and there was a British one I particularly liked. They almost always would end up extending the house down. They would end up putting the kitchen and living room on the basement, and part of the “convincing” the family was by showing the different ways they could bring natural light down. (I thought this was going to be something like that).
And one of the things that blew my mind, was a “skylight” the you’ll install on the roof (or the backyard on that show), and it could brought natural light several floors down. (It was basically a very reflective tube).

So the idea of putting lcd lights mimicking a window basically blew my mind.

[ianmalkaviac]

You could use the same idea to make skylights for a kitchen or a living room with a vaulted ceiling. Would give all the looks without the worries about leaks through the roof.

[lesleyvids]

DIY Perks once built a fake sunlight with an old satellite dish, making the light appear to come from infinitly far away. There are also some flat lenses that mimic this effect. Maybe adding these to the window would make them even more daylight-realistic

[thewol]

What a great idea! If you used sunlight-spectrum lights in them, you could put windows like these in an inside wall in a kitchen or family room as a way for people who have Seasonal Affective Disorder (they get really depressed in the wintertime because of the short winter days and not getting enough natural sunlight) could have a way to get enough sunlight in the wintertime that subtle and just looks like room decor. Could be a life saver for people who suffer from SAD.

[sleepyBear]

Now imagine those led panels were actually smart TVs that allowed you to display live backgrounds!

[captnredbeard]

This project turned out awesome. Electrician here. We’ve been installing that style dimmer in a ton of commercial application lately and they are a pain but also kinda handy. Traditional dimmers would displace a ton of heat and had a max of 600w load unless you got a special type. I don’t know if there is a limit to the number of fixtures you could dim using only one switch.

[joepie]

4:26 I just encountered that exact scenario. Solution....Buy dimmable LED bulbs. They do exist and are available in most home centers. I literally just learned this myself, 2 days ago.

[Dogsnark]

This gives me an idea for making a “renter-friendly” version for people in an apartment. It could be hung just like a picture with drapes on both sides to make it seem more like it was part of the wall. Thanks for your inspiration!

[wheelerdavea]

Love it. We have a basement apartment with a "bonus" room that these windows would be perfect in. Thanks for doing the engineering for me.

[wishingb]

This is the best idea I have ever seen for basement apartments. Psychologically, it is so damaging to not feel like you have windows. This can help so much with mental health.