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What is faux stained glass? How do you make it? I have been looking for a stained glass piece to hang in front of the lower half of my bathroom window. My one & only bathroom is a small interior room, so I don't like to block the window with blinds or drapes, but would like a little privacy, as it over-looks my back patio. |
Thank you! Do you have Pinterest? There are lots of examples there. https://www.pinterest.com/search/pin...tained%20glass But faux stained glass is basically a special type of translucent paint you paint onto glass. Like real stained glass, you do the black lines first (called the leading, or leaded line). It looks similar to puffy paint. After the leading dries you color it in. If you can trace, you can do this. There are lots of more geometric designs that you can do if you don't want to do a picture. One minus is the color dries very light, and for the most part, I went over the peacock three times. If the paint dried darker it would have taken me three days (incl the drying time) instead of a week. This is the kit I bought.  Amazon If you want to do a more geo pattern, you can get the leading that come in strips like this. Amazon Then fill in the blank parts with clear and it will make a wavy look when dry. The best part is if you don't like it you can peel it off. I taped a picture of the peacock behind my glass. Hopefully you can get to behind your window so you can tape a design in the back. If not, then freehand a more simple one. I'd love to see what you come up with if you do it. |
Oh another thing I remembered is Home Depot sells window cling that looks like stained glass. Search Results for*stained glass film*at The Home Depot We bought some and put it in our bathroom window also. It was so easy to install and looks great. Let's in light but still you get a lot of privacy. It's more expensive than the faux stained glass, but goes up way faster. I mean it took less than 5 mins. |
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1 Attachment(s) Ann, I saw this on Pinterest but wanted to post it here in case anyone else is interested. This would be very easy to make! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/510525307735483413/ I have some herbs in a windowsill, but this would look so much better. Also was thinking it could work if the house was right, for a place to drop keys or dog leashes by the door. |
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My neighbor used the Home Depot faux stained glass thingy for a transom above her back door that faces west. Helped filter the blinding afternoon light beautifully. |
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1 Attachment(s) Industrial style fans....looksie what I bought this weekend for $50! Lockers! Woot! Think I'll use these in my painting studio, they'd be perfect for that. Today I'm going to sand off any rust and see if I can remove the writing somehow too. I can't decide whether I want to leave them natural and beat up and gray...or...should I paint them...conflicted over this 1st world problem. |
Great score! I need something to hold little things as well. I would def try and clean off the writing and distress them more. |
Priscilla that window you painted is Amazing, it's just beautiful. |
3 Attachment(s) Think I might be done, or close to it, with the lockers. I primed them, then painted the doors w/ chalkboard paint, then I "burnished" some of the gray areas w/ antiquing glaze to dirty the gray up a bit...so it didn't look so flat. I couldn't decide whether to leave the black paint alone or add a bit of chalk accent....which do you like? I'll put the before pic, then the painted version, then w/ some chalk on the black... |
I likethe last one the best! I agree that it makes it look less flat. |
Ann, they came out great!! Love a find like that! I am partial to the middle picture but the last one looks good, too! These are perfect especially for things that need to have a bit of air circulate around them and not in a totally enclosed bin that may cause a musty odor. I so love visiting this thread to see what you guys have found and changed up into lovely pieces! :) |
So we've been looking for small pendant lights for a year now to hang over our island. Didn't find anything we liked. we even looked at stuff out of our price range, and still nothing we liked. So yesterday we went into one of our favorite thrift shops and found three matching pendants for $10 each. I am repainting them now. They aren't spectactular, but they will do. And for $30 for all three! You can't even get one for that price. This thrift shop gets a lot of architectural salvage, so everything is do dang cheap. They had a huge pile of doors from mansions it seemed bc they were so tall. Like for 10-11' ceilings! $50/pair. Wow. Too bad we can't use any of those. Our ceilings are only 8', those doors were already taller than our ceiling. |
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We too just bought 3 pendant lights to go over our island - they're really big, so should make a statement. I'm going to use a salvaged board to attach the lights to - then attach the board to the ceiling. |
You ladies are on a roll. I know what you mean about finding pendant lights you like, Capt., after looking and looking I finally bought three for my island and I'm not sure I like them :(. My kitchen/dining room is all open so I am going to wait until I finish my table to see if it all comes together for me. $10.00 each is a major score! :thumbup: |
YeahI'm still not sure how I will like it when I'm finished painting it. I'm found them steampunk Chile scheme but the pendants are kinda ornate so I'm afraid the metallic colors are gonna make it look too Roman or Caesar ish. I always hate everything I do until I'm done. Ann, great idea about the wood. Can't wait to see how yours turns out. |
Lol autocorrect. |
I'm painting them steampunk color scheme. |
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Then, I'm just not sure I like these pendants. I'm not used to them being there and they kind of look like they are just hanging there with no purpose, lol. If that makes any sense. Maybe it's the style, I don't know. Try to look past the oak cabinets-all the houses here are oak, LOL and hubby draws the line when I start talking painting them. Ill finish my kitchen with a different light over my sink. Probably a pulley type with Edison lights hanging down and new bar stools. |
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I agree with Ann. Since the island doesn't have a sink, it look more like an informal eating area. The pendants highlight the island. We are going to put one of those foot rest bar thingys on our island like they have at bars. Maybe you can put one in that matches the pendants? I'd like to see what you end up with above your sink. (Tesla light! Not Edison light! LOL) |
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Basically it's what I call Edison bulbs. I mentioned earlier in this thread how much of a douche Edison was. He stole a bunch of inventors ideas and ran to the patent office and he got the credit and the money. He bribed local children to steal neighborhood pets so he would conduct electrical tests on them (the animals not the kids). He held public demos and electrocuted the animals to discredit Tesla's AC (alternate current) system and make his ideas look dangerous. This killed the animals bc they were so small, but the same system on a human did not harm. You may remember Tesla walking around in a ball of electricity using his AC system? Also our electricity we use now is based off Tesla's idea. Lastly Edison did not invent the light bulb, so surely they should not be called Edison bulbs! Tesla didn't either, but just like him so much more, so I personally call them Tesla bulbs. :D This comic puts it in a funny context, but I've read the same book the comic based this cartoon off of. It's much more entertaining than the book. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla |
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1 Attachment(s) ModPodge disaster! Have any of you used ModPodge before? On Pinterest it seems like this is a magic medium that works on anything. Well after I drew this octopus I had the idea to mount it on wood. So I used ModPodge. Well not only did I find out that the MP stretched the paper (so now I had to try and stretch all four panels so it would match up), and it wrinkled up the paper leaving bubbles, but ALSO when it dried, the shrunk back up and now I'm left with this big gap! ERGH! Attachment 405076 So now I am thinking of doing a dark blue/purple wash over it to look like in the deep ocean and hopefully it will cover up the gap. No way I am drawing another one. I should have just used my trusty spray mount. MP is like kids' craft stuff you'd use for stuff at Michaels. :thumbdown Also I got the matte finish and it's still kinda shiny. |
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