May 4, 2009

Do It Yourself Stained Glass

We have Amityville Horror windows in our bedroom. I've gotten past that, but what I couldn't get beyond was the closeness of our neighbors. The same ones who don't know how to share a driveway. I wanted privacy and I wanted it to be inexpensive and quick. It wasn't long before we found our answer at Home Depot called Artscapes. It's essentially thin vinyl that sticks to glass or plastic. I was afraid it would be difficult to work with but it actually wasn't too bad. After tracing the panel shapes on the back of the vinyl, I cut them out with an x-acto knife and followed the instructions. Which was basically wetting the glass and sticking the vinyl to it, then trimming the excess vinyl.



Good-bye neighbors!
There are a few different patterns, some looked more like etched glass rather than stained. But now I'm eyeing up other windows in the house to see where else I can put this stuff!

3 friends have something to say...:

Anonymous said...

looks great!
-Jen

Eden said...

How pretty! It looks amazingly like real stained glass!!

kidqwk said...

Last Saturday during the festivities, I looked up and wondered to myself why I had never noticed the stained glass windows on the third floor. Completely fooled me.

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