Here is a window well cover on a back patio that we covered to help darken his media room down stairs for our client Dale Yocum, who lives just above the Metro Zoo, at 4343 S.E. Fairview Blvd in Portland, Oregon.  It was completed in August of 2002. We also replaced the copper gutters and built a copper covered awning just to the right of this seat.

This window well did not have the brick border you see.  The client wanted to make that basement room into a media room, so he wanted me to darken the window wells.  I covered the other window wells that were in the bushes with painted aluminum sheet metal over the clear plastic cover on a wood frame, but he wanted this one to look a bit fancier.

We came up with this idea where I did the masonry work around this window well to build it up for this bench seat that is removable.  The bench seat was made with ipe hardwood.  We glued and screwed them together.  We then covered that wood in copper sheet metal, so that it will drain on either end.

Here is the same bench seat a couple years latter

There are more photos to see from this project on the fabrication page for the awning I built at:
http://copper-by-design.com/fs/awning1.htm
and the gutter work description web page at:
http://dmr-gutters.com/cg/Yocum.htm

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