Planning windows is another discussion. Considering prices too, windows that open and slide from right to left seemed to make the most sense. We are all right handed and sitting in the stand, shooting, it just seemed that this would be the better. Three of the stands have one window on 3 sides and a door with a window on the 4th wall.
Son, N found sliding windows at a really good price, and they all opened the same way. He has the largest stand and was making room for his kids on occasion. There would be more inside movement in his so he wanted narrow (top to bottom) windows – his are only 12 inches in height. His design was more rectangular than square so he needed 2 windows on one side (door and window opposite). He wanted to take better advantage of shooting area, so he ended up putting one window in upside down and one right side. He has one window open right to left and one left to right. Works just fine, his wife got a deer on the 2nd day of hunting from those windows.
Lots of sprayed dots are of Flex Seal spray. The tin is re-used so it was full of screw holes. After some spray insulation this next year, they won’t show at all.
On the side with the door he has a window that faces south. Because of changing brightness in the stand, he added some dark out curtains, homemade from a scrap of fabric. This way he can avoid glare when the sun is shining too bright.
Leaving the 2 x 4s exposed leaves some shelf space open. He has a few propone bottles on the shelves.
All of the roofs were built with a slope, lesson learned; don’t put the lower part of the roof over the stairs. Rain, sleet, snow all drip that way now, making the steps slipperier. May need to add a small gutter under that roof edge.
H built the doors to fit the space planned and put a window into each door. Another lesson learned; when putting the window in the door, make sure you check out the height when you are sitting on a chair in the deer stand, not when standing in the deer stand. Actually, that applies to all window heights and he did that, just didn’t do that on the first door window. On the first door, he bought traditional door hardware – that was expensive. On the next ones, he used traditional hinges but created a latch system to eliminate the need for the purchased doorknob handle.