Window seats

When I was a little girl I used to try to squeeze up onto the ledge of the window in my room to read, pretending it was a window seat. 

With only about six inches to spare on the windowsill, it was anything but comfortable and I couldn't last up there for more than a few minutes, stretching my leg across and pushing my foot against the space where the window frame meets the wall to keep myself steady. 

Maybe I had read about window seats in a book somewhere...I don't know. But ever since then, one of my dreams has been to have a window seat. There would be nothing better than snuggling up to a good book on a winter afternoon on a window seat. (I just finished Half Broke Horses and The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls' writing is heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once.)

Check out these pretty reading spots below! Plus, 36 cozy window seats from Freshome. Do you have a window seat? If so, I'm coming over...

And, an awesome window BED...

*Top painting "The Window Seat" by Sir William Orpen