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I did mine with wood and a frame. I use cup hooks and eyes to hold in place over my windows.

I know this was posted a long time ago, but I'm new, so here's my 2 cents:

I built a frame out of thin pink sheets of foam to fit just inside my window. I used a pencil to score wood grain and then added the cross-piece "boards" and painted it.

To attach the frame to the windows, I bought small round velcro stickers in white to match my vinyl window color and stuck the "male" dots onto the back of the frame at the 4 corners, then the "female" dots onto the window. They are practically invisible the rest of the year (I leave the dots on year round). Then each year I just have to press the boarded-up frames into place and occasionally need to replace a dot here and there.

The velcro is waterproof and stands up to a pretty good wind.

Hope this helps

That's a neat idea using Velcro. Do you have pictures? I don't understand what you say about them being just inside your windows. How does that look?

Thats what I was thinking about doing this year, using velcro to attach the foam boards to my windows. I dont have anywhere to hang boards from or a frame to hang them to and I dont want to screw into the house. Hopefully I can get the velcro to do the job, at least the foam is pretty light.

I'm afraid I don't have any pics.. will be sure to take some this Halloween...

As far as fitting the frames... what I meant was that the windows themselves are set into the vinyl frame a bit. I will upload a drawing to show you what I mean when I'm on my Mac tomorrow at work. It'll be much clearer that way than me trying to describe it.

Finally have a pic to share of my boarded up windows for this year's haunt. Styrofoam strips hot-glued together and painted, then velcro-ed to the windows. Held up with no problem for 2 weeks.

WOW!!! those looks wonderful!!!!

that does look really cool....i wish i had windows!

Mine are 2x4 framed to fit the window opening from sill to header. I have 3/8 lag screws into the bottom and I back them to wedge them into the opening. I have had strong winds and lots of rain and they don't budge.

I used 1/4" luan plywood that I stuck to the aluminum storm windows with some heavy duty double sided tape. It's made by 3M. It was around $5 at Lowes.