Opinions please
Last year I renovated my master bedroom. I went maybe a bit overboard with the red oak but overall I’m satisfied with it. One of the things I constructed was a large, built-in bureau which, again, I might have gone a bit overboard on with the carvings. My next taks here is to finish off…
Last year I renovated my master bedroom. I went maybe a bit overboard with the red oak but overall I’m satisfied with it. One of the things I constructed was a large, built-in bureau which, again, I might have gone a bit overboard on with the carvings.
My next taks here is to finish off the house with five years’ worth of backburnered stained glass projects, one of which is the panels to the bureau’s doors.
I’ve got two options and I’m undecided which will work better. The first is a simple but classic crosshatched diamond pattern using translucent art glass. This wouldn’t compete with the carvings.
The other is a pattern I designed with GlassEye today. I like it by itself but I’m concerned that it might be too busy for this cabinet.
I can only post one image here so you can see the pattern on http://www.brooklynrowhouse.com/node/117
I’m so slow at doing this stuff I’d starve before I finished my first gig.
ah ha! Sounds great- I think no matter what you decide it will look incredible. Checked out your web site- Place looks amazing- if you ever make architectural woodworking a career you’ll have more work than you can possibly imagine!
You’re so right about he home depot doors- some of them wouldn’t be so bad except they use that horrid bright gold faux leading.
The whitish glass in that design is translucent clear glass. It just renders white in the image. I want to have some color in it though, otherwise it would kinda look like a Home Depot leaded glass door.
couldn’t you do the stained glass pattern but using clear glass of different translucencies? My english is rapidly degenerating but I know you know what I meant 🙂
I love cross-hatched diamond glass but in this case it would add a geometric, angular element to a cabinet which has a lot of “organic” carvings. I mocked up an image of the cabinet with it and it clashed.
I think I’m gonna go with the last design, depending on what Albert Stained Glass has on hand. I suspect they won’t have that brown opalescent glass (Wissmach 145-D to be exact) because I could only find one retail resource for it on the web. So I’ll probably have to make some adjustments.
Actually, I like the cross hatch diamond idea best. I love leaded glass anyway and since you’ve put do much into the carving why have the stained glass competing? And the diamond pattern with clear translucent glass would work better with the handles on the cabinet. If you’re changing those forget my last comment 🙂
How about just a single plain sheets of clear patterned glass- cathedral glass? Or smallish squares with bullseyes here and there, with that artglass that is filled with tiny bubbles. also all in clear glass. I was thinking old medieval windows.
Sorry Steve–I’m laughing at this one, because I have color-blindness across a very narrow range of green, and apparently you managed to find it. As to blue and yellow working together, it’s a classic combination–think Provence.
The previous design had pale greens though, not yellows. That doesn’t match anything in the room which, to my eye at least, is one of the things that made it a bit too loud. The new brown border I color matched to the existing cabinet. But I think that color may be a hard one to find so I was thinking about swapping it for a very pale yellow I know Albert carries, in which case that blue may not work either.
Hi Steve:
I didn’t think I’d write anything more on this (and will definitely stop here). Of course the choice remains entirely subjective (that’s why your call), but I prefer the simpler yellows of the previous rendering to the blues and brown marbling of the current version. Could be the colors are not showing accurately online. Either way, don’t lose the colors that work with your wood in favor of the colors that work with your walls. Take a look at the work of http://www.rennerandfaust.com/portfolio.aspx, and also take a look at glassgallerynj dot com/photo_gallery.php, which is far less refined, but still has several samples worth pondering (especially look at what can be accomplished with textures and bevels alone). Enjoy your new bandsaw and the fruits of your labor!