Lucky escape: The Jackson family (Dad Craig, mum Natasha, and children Benjamin, six, Peyton, five, and one-year-old Quinn) escaped a house fire by leaping out of a bedroom window onto a garden ...

6. Oh So Cozy Emily LaMarque, founder of Emily LaMarque Design Studio, offers this tip: “Hide away uneven bedroom windows by hanging a wall of drapery as a beautiful, yet cozy, backdrop.

Windows with lower sills can then be installed, enabling emergency escape by occupants. In the event of a fire, occupants can crawl out into the window well and then up to the ground level.

The view from Dona Meuller’s garden (Picture: Joseph Anthony/Caters) A pensioner had a terrifying view from her bedroom window as Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted earlier this week.

Anne Parham, 62, claims visitors to Dunster Castle in Somerset are able to peer into her bedroom and bathroom after the National Trust opened a walled garden less than a metre from her home.