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How to Decorate Your Home with Stained Glass Doors & Windows
Adding a touch of colour or personality to any style home is easy with stained glass. Placed inside a door, window or other frame, stained glass instantly boosts the warmth and beauty of a room and is available in a handsome variety of patterns from simple to complex.
However, while everyone knows stained glass is available as an accent to a window or a door, it’s also useful as a decorative element in myriad other ways. Here are just a few of the creative approaches utilizing stained glass that don’t involve the front door or stair-landing window. Try one of these at home, or get inspired to develop something new.
1. Interior Doors
The front door is the most common place to add stained glass elements, either along the sides or across the top. But any door can accommodate the addition of a stained glass section, especially if plentiful light pours into the room that will help illuminate the artwork. In older homes that have doors between the kitchen, dining room and living room and other rooms, adding a round or square stained glass insert can help increase the light flow between rooms. This not only reduces the need to use electricity, but it also brightens an otherwise fairly dark area of the home.
2. Stained Glass Frames
There are two options here. One is to frame stained glass artwork and employ it as any other piece of art in your home, hanging it on the walls, on the patio or even in the garden where it can spray light across furniture, plants and water features. The other option is to create a frame using stained glass. The colours draw out the beauty of the photograph or painting within the frame, and it serves as two pieces of art in one. Consider framing photographs of loved ones in stained glass frames and displaying them near windows or outdoors.
3. Stained Glass Sconces
If stained glass creations are intended to use light, why not make lighting fixtures out of them? Using stained glass to surround the bulb of a sconce is an excellent way to add warmth and luminescence to any area of the house that lacks it. Hallways, dark rooms and bedrooms especially can benefit from the subtle glow of a stained glass sconce. Another thrilling idea is to use stained glass on the shade that pops atop a lamp. These make bedtime and lazy afternoon reading sessions particularly enjoyable. A stained glass lampshade is a conversational piece as well as a functional item.
4. Table Décor
Not all artwork is functional as well as beautiful; sometimes, something that’s lovely to gaze upon is contribution enough. A stained glass adornment that draws the eye to the bookcase, family photograph-littered shelf or family room table serves to add elegance and style in harmony with its surroundings. Additionally, table décor using stained glass is often three-dimensional, as in a sphere the size of a grapefruit or cantaloupe, or shaped like a particular creature, such as a bird or otter. Options abound to suit every taste.
5. Garden and Patio Décor
It’s already been mentioned that stained glass windows or panes can be placed in the garden to catch the light and embellish the natural beauty of the outdoors. But the possibilities only begin there. A stained glass birdhouse gives respite to flitting fowl who are in need of a safe home; bird baths provide a welcome location to wash off the day’s work, and stained glass wind chimes offer both visual and auditory interest. Finally, consider adding stained glass stepping stones in a path to a water feature, fire pit or other notable element within the garden.
At first blush, it seems like stained glass typically belongs in windows and doors, but there is a wealth of opportunity to employ this stunning and colourful material to decorate the entire home. Whether on a lampshade, birdhouse or frame, stained glass offers an excellent way of adding aesthetic enhancement that’s adaptable to just about any style or preference.
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