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my pretty cat!!

my cat - all the window sills are her personal property.

A few beach rocks here and there, a vase or two, a vintage insulator that looks really pretty in the sun, and some potted herbs and peppers.

My main window is 9 feet wide and has a 12" deep sill. Two cats & two crates, one roadblocked by a Norfolk Island Pine

plants...

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Lots and lots of potted plants. I think I have a plant on nearly every usable window sill. Fortunately for me, mine are nice and wide. The cat also is perched on one or another most of the day.

As loveoldstuff said, my window sills belong to my cats. Anything that gets placed on the sills are in their territory and will most likely be destroyed. I even had to replace the blinds with drapes just so the cats could look outside when they are closed.

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Desperately trying to think of a way to build in deeper windowsills, so they have a place to perch, so I have a place to display things...

Cats here as well. If I tried to put anything else on the windowsill, it would end up on the floor!

My office has books lined up in the three deep windows, and the rest of the house has been claimed by the cat!

Yup... my cat's in my one and only windowsill as well. Even though I gave her a comfy perch at another window, she still likes to steal the windowsill.

I have little candles sitting in there. Some are votives, some shaped like lotus blossoms or spheres. I don't really burn them, they're just there to look at.

The beach rocks remind me of a Jewish cemetery.

also dust. in a while to be joined by an a/c.

I have very deep window sills,around 8 inches probably. The living room ones have picture frames and vases on them, an the one near the kitchen has mostly cook books.

Cats and plants, and yes, things do get knocked over. I like the bottles, but because that sill space is precious, I've been hanging them from the ceiling. I just bought some Ikea Gruntal cachepots/planters to add some quirkiness and get more plants off the sills.

The cats make it difficult to undress because they want to crawl into the blinds and expose us.

Rucy - It's easy! Get a nice deep piece of wood as wide as the sill, and brace it from below with shelf brackets. Cats love 'em! (You can also add a fluffy cushion.)

A lamp, a plant, a couple books and the thriving window box just beyond... http://www.flickr.com/photos/38464725@N06/3534738164/

My cat loves to sleep on the windowsill. She stares out the window and wags her tail until she passes out. I love the look of plants and pots, but I'm sure those would get knocked down.

I have some figurines, a lovely scented candle and a vase candle I created one year in my kitchen window. I hope to add some plants soon though.

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Pick a room...LOL...mostly we use our window sills as display areas since the blinds are never up (we just open them). Have to flaunt the marble window sills somehow. The living room windows (though it's a double window) only has a small wrought iron dog in it since my desk covers up a little more than half.

my window sills aren't deep enough for much of anything and if I do put something there the blinds get caught in it. I do like that idea to make the sill bigger by adding a shelf over it. I got my new project!

African violets
Cats
Rock collection

My bathtub has a wide window next to it. The bottom half is blocked with frosted window film, so a lot of light comes in without worry of being seen. The window sill holds my collection of clear glass paperweights, crystal star candle holders, and other sparkly items.

wide window sills (about 12 inch), little light, so no plants, but (in the livingroom) a collection of white stones, shells, a small dog skull found on an ant hill, and a hundred years old graveside angel with no head and only half a wing, found in teh burial plot of my parents … with an Arabian lantern hanging over it all.
blue and green paperweights and a black stone in the bedroom. a big 7 arms candle holder in the kitchen.

About four inch window sills here but I still manage to get some things displayed in them - if I have to deal with the blinds, then I deal. Unless whatever it is is actually leaning against the blinds, there shouldn't be a problem.

For me its a basil plant and some really cool old peanut butter jars that I found at a estate sale.

Great idea, THANKS missmouse!

in the kitchen - part of the cow collection
in the dining room - a stained glass panel, my basil plant
in the living room - all my small tea light holders

nothing in the office, bedroom or dressing room

jacksonlalonde, what a beautiful window and a beautiful room. Love the chair more than I can say. My favorite window sill has 2 tillandsias, an antique thermometer and a couple of tiny antique pitchers.