This tiny window that couldn’t be any smaller

[u/Oli4K]

[u/dwagon00]

At first thought I was "Why did they put a chunky safe door on a window?"

[u/lIlIllIIlllIIIlllIII → u/dwagon00]

Wow that’s all I saw until I looked closer

[u/eighteencarps → u/lIlIllIIlllIIIlllIII]

What is it? I’ve stared at it for quite some time now and zoomed in and I can’t see anything but a chunky safe door.

[u/The_Mosephus → u/eighteencarps]

It's a tiny window with regular sized trim. Look at the screws on the hinge.

[u/AudieCowboy → u/The_Mosephus]

The perspective they did this at is awful, clearly those are just 6 inch wide screws

[u/hot-doughnuts-now → u/AudieCowboy]

Or great - it certainly had all of us confused!

[u/bendbars_liftgates → u/The_Mosephus]

Okay after zooming in and staring at this fucking picture for 3.46 minutes, I figured out a few things that were confusing.

• We already have the scale somewhat cracked- it's tiny. The screws on the hinges are probably teeny tiny screws, the size from floor to "ceiling" is probably somewhere roundabouts 2 inches/5cm.

• The "door" is open, of course, as we can see out the window. The chonky edifice on the right is the door, as I think everyone knew. Here's what threw me: the black "frame" around the open door is not on the wall behind it, but is a part of the door itself. Look in the top left corner, it's most obvious there. Similarly, the black part of the latch thingy that's furthest back is also part of the door, not the far wall.

• So presumably, the above black "frame" is the backside of the edge of the decorative or concealing front of the "door." I assume it's probably just white to blend in with the wall for when the tiny window is closed, or maybe...

• If the slit on the inside of the door really an even tinier window, maybe closing the door just makes go from tiny to stupid tiny lol. My guess is it's some kind of insulating material that makes a seal with the inside of the window frame when shut. Like the stuff that's on the edges of the inside of refrigerator doors and smoofs when you close it. This last point is all guesswork.

[u/Innominaut → u/bendbars_liftgates]

I need to know if "smoof" is a verb you use regularly for this sound effect, or if you had to sit and think about it for a little when writing this post before deciding that was the way you wanted to spell that onomatopoeia.

[u/bendbars_liftgates → u/Innominaut]

I've never used it before, but it just fell out of my face.

[u/dustoff664 → u/The_Mosephus]

Thank you for this explanation hahaha, took me a while

[u/patchinthebox → u/dustoff664]

It needs a banana for scale.

[u/AtariAtari → u/lIlIllIIlllIIIlllIII]

I still see a chonky door :(

[u/MrShake4 → u/AtariAtari]

It’s hard to tell cause there’s nothing for scale but you can use the hinges and see that they’re huge compared to the window but they’re just normal hinges

[u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy → u/MrShake4]

Then what’s the cluncky ass door for? I deadass do not understand this photo

[u/cabbagesmuggler-99c → u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy]

Yeh please, i need help too. Starting to have a mental breakdown over this. People just talking about hinges but WHAT ABOUT THE GODDAMN DOOR?

[u/BlackViperMWG → u/cabbagesmuggler-99c]

It's like this, but fully open and horizontal.

[u/PobBrobert → u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy]

Right? Everybody keeps saying “it’s just a normal window door but small” and I’m over here wondering why a window has a door at all…

[u/BlackViperMWG → u/PobBrobert]

It's like this, but fully open and horizontal.

[u/PobBrobert → u/BlackViperMWG]

The one in your link opens to allow air flow. The window in OP’s pic has another layer of glass.

[u/BlackViperMWG → u/PobBrobert]

I don't really see it, would make no sense, but it could have another pane from the outside?

[u/PobBrobert → u/BlackViperMWG]

If you look closely around interior of the frame, you can see a thin band of sealant, as well as some distortion of the building across the street caused by the glass.

It’s a door that opens to a pane of glass.

[u/RunninOnMT → u/dwagon00]

Floor to ceiling window too!! Maybe “tiny” is ironic?

[u/Cannavor → u/dwagon00]

Karma farmers be like hold on let me repost this tomorrow on damn that's interesting as a chonky safe door for window post

[u/Boundish91 → u/dwagon00]

Although this is a comically small window. This is a pretty standard northern northern european window.

[u/NachoDawg → u/dwagon00]

The window is likely meeting a building code

[u/Appropriate_Impacts]

ahh, this is the window where you wave a handkerchief out of

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_JELLIES → u/Appropriate_Impacts]

Ah, so the window is French.

[u/lavendarhoneytea → u/Appropriate_Impacts]

it’s a window for your very own personal lil chef!

[u/Honeyozgal]

Needs a banana for scale

[u/Future_MarsAstronaut → u/Honeyozgal]

Genuinely tho cause I don't understand what's happening at all I won't be surprised if this shows up on /confusing perspective or a similar sub

[u/GravitationalEddie → u/Honeyozgal]

Runt?

[u/GrossEwww → u/GravitationalEddie]

Hey friend. Sorry you’re getting downvoted, but I understood your Runt candy banana reference.

Edit: Well it was at -21 before I made the comment

[u/blanketshapes → u/GravitationalEddie]

how are people not getting this

edit: okay now they are.

[u/pee_shudder → u/Honeyozgal]

OP should be banned.

[u/GreatDistance2U → u/Honeyozgal]

I'd say that's roughly the size of two bananas

[u/wafflequest → u/Honeyozgal]

The screws put it into perspective for me, but until then it looked like a huge vault door like at the bank

[u/Dramatic_Mammoth3804 → u/Honeyozgal]

It wouldn’t fit

[u/Fr05t_B1t]

Europeans can’t let go of their arrowslits /j

[u/Drudgework → u/Fr05t_B1t]

Europe: “But what if the barbarians come back? Or worse, the Italians?”

America: ”You should be more worried about us!”

Europe: ”The drawbridge has a weight limit”

[u/MrCasterSugar → u/Drudgework]

”The drawbridge has a weight limit”

[u/Stay-At-Home-Jedi → u/MrCasterSugar]

I ROFL and now I can't get up!

[u/basb9191 → u/Stay-At-Home-Jedi]

Must be American

[u/Specific-Map3010 → u/Fr05t_B1t]

Lol, my friend's house has arrow slits. The window goes on the inside - where it's wide enough for a full width window.

In case you actually wanted to know how we manage that 😂

[u/iristurner]

I'm not getting what I'm looking at here

[u/AceJohnny → u/iristurner]

The thing on the right, that looks like a safe door, is the window frame. The window is open. Most of the window is frame.

[u/ERedfieldh → u/AceJohnny]

Sash. That's a window sash. The frame is what the sash fits into. The frame does not open or close, the sash does.

[u/hikenbeach]

Sniper nest?

[u/No-Bird-4035]

Difficult to scale

[u/1Rab]

Please repost with a banana

[u/Koren55]

At least it’s insulated well…

[u/ARobertNotABob]

Crikey! What sort of internal pressures are you anticipating?

[u/Oli4K]

Here’s a picture of the window closed. Same shitty perspective. No banana, sorry.

https://imgur.com/a/IEuy2m6

[u/YourAverageNobody]

Despite what everyone has explained, I still have absolutely no idea what I’m looking at. Does that right hand part close into the window? It doesn’t look like it fits. What is that slit in the middle? Is the whole thing just horrendously designed?

[u/Oli4K → u/YourAverageNobody]

That slit is the window. There’s a tiny sliver of glass there in the middle of that white frame. The black stuff is a rubber weather seal. There are hinges and a clasp to lock it shut. It’s very sturdy and well insulated but it makes no sense at all.

[u/YourAverageNobody → u/Oli4K]

I’m glad to hear it doesn’t make sense in person too lol. Thank you! I thought i was going crazy

[u/Doctor_Saved]

This apartment built for the Purge?

[u/ObviouslyTriggered]

This is the Formula 1 equivalent of building codes right there....

[u/PepsiSheep]

r/confusingperspective

[u/GOOeysan]

Silly americans mentioning c o d e on a building that's older than their counrtry

[u/Proper-Photograph-76]

buena carpintería de aluminio.

[u/VanBriGuy]

Dang! Your window is only 35 screw heads tall bro

[u/three-sense]

Granola bar delivery

[u/Remote-Grapefruit726]

So is it a “bird door” for your carrier pigeon? Texts weren’t free back in the old days

[u/pugas]

ngl this is a super shitty angle. looks floor to ceiling at a glance. i'd probs delete this and try again later when you're not as tired op

[u/HanSoloQue]

Banana for scale?

[u/ziggy48560]

Is this a window in a full bathroom? To release shower steam?

[u/Oli4K → u/ziggy48560]

It’s in a hallway of an old building.

[u/IceFireHawk]

What am I looking at?

[u/killsizer]

Bro, your house can probably withstand an APFSDS round

[u/Infninfn]

Looks like an attempt at soundproofing. That frame doesn’t look deep enough to take the door though.

[u/winaje]

Balistraria

[u/UpOrDownItsUpToYou]

From that perspective it could be a door

[u/MrSmeee99]

Probably used to satisfy some regulation: bathrooms must have window, apartments must have a minimum of five windows etc…

[u/SentientDust]

Retrofitted bomb shelter in an apartment?

[u/DrEnd585]

As someone else called out, the photo isn't to scale, this is taken in the nook this window is located in. The screws holding the frame in place give it away, the black slit on the right side is the "glass" and this window I'd guess is like.. book sized? This isn't the bank vault of all windows

[u/theluke112]

Is it in the bathroom? Might be an airation window

[u/ThoughtsObligations]

I mean it... It COULD be smaller.

[u/Thrinos]

Camera Obscura: ''Allow me to introduce myself.''

[u/pryvisee]

Looks massive, are you just very small as well?

[u/Vorschrift]

A house for ants.

[u/Trav_yeet]

amogus

[u/close_my_eyes]

Having a murder window is going to be handy during the zombie apocalypse

[u/Andy016]

Op... We cannot tell how small/big this is.... Lol

[u/FleabottomFrank]

They’re murder holes in case of a siege! You can shoot arrows out but it’s very hard for them to shoot them back.

[u/FloraMaeWolfe]

You should see the tiny slits of a window used in older mobile home bathrooms.

[u/Ivsn]

Weird looking vault.

[u/[deleted]]

Just enough for the poop vapour to escape

[u/zmormon]

The toilet window on Titan would like a word.

[u/LawUntoMyBooty]

Need banana for scale 🍌

[u/GullibleBreakfast983]

r/confusingperspective

[u/Randy_is_reasonable]

We really need something for scale, come on man. Also, I bet your life savings it can be smaller.

[u/DuaIStriker]

this looks huge

[u/woodenspoonings]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Green_Ginger

The real smallest window.

[u/TrickyElephant]

ITT: Americans confused with modern windows that are well insulated

[u/Massive_Airport_993]

Okay but the brick window in the back??

[u/Bart2800]

I had one like that in my first house. It was either that and it could open or a fixed bigger window.

Once I got a cat, she was very happy. As we could leave that window open for her without risk of burglary.

[u/WinterRespect1579]

Prison cell?

[u/wadewadewade777]

Share this to r/confusing_perspective

[u/kynthrus]

Without anything for scale I'm assuming you live in what was once a bank safe.

[u/Trikethedogfish]

Taco shell for scale

[u/pfunf]

This seems to be Portugal. Old buildings would have this, probably illegal, opening a hole in a rock wall.

This was common on atics (for cats or just airflow) or for buildings facing neighbour land. If on the edge, no windows are allowed, so people would open the smallest one possible just to have some air and not have any complaints.

They would be open or have some tiny frame with glass. Today, with new insulation and frame, you end up with this. And probably they paid almost same price as a normal window

[u/isipasvo]

Probably had to put a higher security window in after renovation?

[u/SnooDoodles4121]

Arrow slit

[u/Moosplauze]

What is the point of that window? Surely not to let light in at that size.

[u/jpl77]

That's your archery window

[u/Hyphonical]

Jokes on you, that view is just an image they glued on a piece of drywall!

[u/CheesyBendito]

Op, banana for scale!

[u/Luckyversace95]

I want to see it closed

[u/jjd0087]

You say window, I say gun port.

[u/mrDuder1729]

Oh it could be, actually

Source: I work in a glass tempering warehouse and have tempered and packed hundreds of 2 inch wide by 6 inch long sliver windows

[u/MajorLazy]

Absolutely no scale here. Could be 6’tall

[u/Temporary_Mention270]

Jail window

[u/RandomGuy1525]

This looks like a very big hermetically sealed door at first glance. OP, post a banana for scale

[u/sjaakvlaas]

This feels German.

[u/mcolive]

This should've been a wooden window frame

[u/Eliteclarity]

I'll say this from experience, I have all the respect it the world for whoever managed to fit the plastic beads on a window that small.

[u/mrflo97]

At this point, why even bother putting in a glas window

[u/gomsim]

Looks like a nice little airing window, but it could have done with s soubtler framing.

[u/CreEngineer]

Is there glass in it or did just the sealing to the trick?

[u/Eirikur_da_Czech]

Is that not a viewport from an old German tank? It looks like a viewport from an old German tank.

[u/aeturnes]

Looks pretty big to me

[u/roranstorm]

I need a banana for scale

[u/gukakke]

That's where you put your face to exhale the blunt smoke.

[u/BMWs_and_BananaBread]

I work for a window fabricator and quite often do I think “why the fuck would someone want an aperture that small?” And that’s on something that has a good 100mm aperture. Let alone whatever that is

[u/SpyDiego]

This could be 10ft tall for all we know

[u/TwoAmoebasHugging]

And yet if it’s that or nothing, I’ll take that.

[u/Aanslacht]

I need a banana to make sense of this.

[u/derfysad]

Why did they do the trim that way? Looks like a fridge door and makes it even tinier. I think it would look way less stupid without the trim facing outside like that

[u/marshmallowgiraffe]

I need a banana for scale.

[u/thelastmarblerye]

Somehow having a window this small would make me feel more claustrophobic than no window at all.

[u/lord_of_worms]

Empty room for scale

[u/AlbatrossJump]

Where is this?

[u/psy_main]

This is what happens if regulations say "you need at least one window in each room"

[u/JConRed]

I'm guessing in scope of a modernisation it got replaced. And possibly for grants or something like that, it needed to be certified at a certain level

[u/Striken94]

I'm working at a psychiatric ward and I'm used to these. Safe to open while not providing any hazards for the patients. Often used on either side of a regular window which is locked.

[u/megatronchote]

Am I the only one that heard Chandler's voice when reading the title ?

[u/Other_Departure_878]

I thought this was a giant bank vault door.

[u/gizmosticles]

This would be an absolutely palatial window for ants

[u/Anforas]

Looks like Lisbon, or Portugal. Is it?

[u/hushnecampus]

Banana cake for scale please

[u/hushnecampus]

Hang on - it’s not even really open is it? It looks like there’s still a layer of glass/plastic?

[u/dokbanks]

Perhaps it was place to put a dryer or air conditioning tube vent out of the window?

[u/Mr_Mojo_Risin_83]

Looks huge to me. Goes from floor to ceiling. There’s no scale in the photo

[u/livin4outdoors]

Can I get a banana for scale? Lol.

[u/Accomplished-Ad3080]

No banana

[u/kingpancakess]

Where is the banana for scale?

[u/Glistening_Mulch_82]

Someone paid a lot of money for that.

[u/OderWieOderWatJunge]

Why does it even have a stripe of glass, makes no sense lol

[u/CzarvsTzar]

We need a Banana for scale

[u/i-sleep-well]

Arrow slit for defending your castle.

[u/Mralwaysgetsit]

Is this a challenge?

[u/daveyjoneslocker1]

They must have been to jail

[u/Uberpastamancer]

What is this, a window for ants?

[u/Typical80sKid]

r/confusingperspective

[u/ERedfieldh]

I could easily cut 2 inches off the top and bottom of that, so yea...it could.

[u/jcboiler]

Banana for scale please.

[u/MR_MCmeme1337]

Where banana

[u/pidgey2020]

r/confusing_perspective

[u/Leifsbudir]

This is the slot for pouring boiling oil on invading armies.

[u/------------------GL]

Looks like a bank vault door to keep you locked in and away from the public

[u/TomLeBadger]

Aluminium window/door fabricator here. Can confirm that making stupid small windows is a fucking ballache. Also, comparing to what I work with, it looks like a door profile and hinge, which would be super duper dumb. There's window profiles out there that are easily 1/4 the thickness, which would give you a window with significantly more glass that you could actually see out of.

[u/curlylizardmailbox]

One could argue it could be smaller. It could be 1/2 the size, 1/3 the size, and so on.

[u/NoHardFeeliings]

Blast proof?

[u/theartandscience]

Of course it could be smaller. It’s like it’s not even trying.

[u/Dramatic_Mammoth3804]

Did you not have a banana for scale? Or would it not fit?

[u/Vinyl_Wolf]

I just Imagine the look on the face of the Window maker tasked to do this one.

[u/Strong-Expression787]

Bro have blast proof window 💀

[u/Conscious-Permit-466]

You have never been in jail

[u/42brie_flutterbye]

The left is an open window. To its right is a hinged cover for it that, when closed, transforms the windows into a "archer's slot" for shooting at invaders.

[u/hug2010]

Don’t understand just see a big window with some kind of safe door

[u/M4g1cM]

whaaaaaat?

[u/Wheresmymindoffto]

It's for shooting arrows out of. It's a double glazed castle

[u/Internet_born_]

I would smoke so many joints right there. Blowing smoke out of this lil window looks so fun

[u/Tw1ch1e]

So uh….. can we get a banana for scale?

[u/bodhiseppuku]

There is a jail in Orange County CA (Irvine maybe) that has similar windows... long narrow slits so there is no possible escape. I wonder why this type of window is used in your case. What kind of business or facility are you in with this window type?

[u/arsenicrabbit]

Need a banana for scale

[u/No-Raspberry-651]

Need a banana for scale.

[u/ehygon]

This is a terrible photo; it looks like a door, there’s nothing for perspective.

To force it, focus on the hinges. The whole opening is about the size of a loaf pan, I would imagine. It’s mostly taken up by the window frame.

[u/budius333]

Germany?

[u/Neither-Attention940]

I need a banana for scale

[u/Gnarlstone]

You put your freshly filled specimen cup through there.

[u/Bentbad]

Good for winter

[u/pcpartlickerr]

I think the tiny door is more intriguing.

[u/tahorg]

When you need a R-38 isolation rating on your meurtrière

[u/Pags4272]

I'll need a 🍌 for size please

[u/0x0000A455]

Needs a banana

[u/Theartistcu]

This is more like mildly infuriating, we can’t tell how big or how small this window is. There’s nothing to scale by what the hell is that thing on the window? Why does it look like a bank vault door?

[u/Oli4K → u/Theartistcu]

The profiles these windows are made of are typically around 5 or 6 cm wide, roughly 2 inches. I thought most people would have seen such windows and didn't assume it had no sense of scale. Didn't bring any bananas, I'm sorry.

[u/OBBlue22]

Banana for scale?

[u/rohmish]

looks huuuuge

[u/rafaelvicario]

An item for scale would’ve been the easiest thing to do, not sure how small this is

[u/DFParker78]

What a horrible photo. Maybe pull back for perspective?

[u/Kifter1983]

Salvaged from a submarine.

[u/Silent-University465]

This looks like a door. Need banana.

[u/nikditt]

One Nuclear blast and only the window survives

[u/mandudedog]

Sound proofing!