So my Boyfriends Brother just got new windows in his house and this left all these old windows on his lawn. me being a re-use lady myself i took them. so any cool funky Ideas how i should decorate them? I wias thinking stained glass but there are a few ways i could do this. Or perhaos a 'room divider?' so many ideas. care to share?
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 7:28 AMI've seen old windows turned into a really cool coffee or end table. Add some trim around the sides and legs on the bottom. Then a sheet of glass on top to create a little display area between the top glass and the glass in the window. Photos, trinkets, feathers, its like a never ending collage in a table.
I have lots of old windows but they are put to more mundane use as cold frames in the garden.
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 10:05 AM
I've seen the frames of old windows used as picture frames by a few artists
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 10:34 AMgood ideas everyone
or collage on the panels
or fabric
or just hang the doors from the ceiling to divide a room
or some kinda walls in a garden - painted, mosiac?
have fun
share with us where you go with this project
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 2:27 PMI have a few old windows myself that I have yet to decorate, but my plan was to do stained glass mosaic on them, I remember being at a seafood restaurant where they had a lot of light and a bunch of old windows hanging that had been mosaic-ed and it was a beautiful effect. My friend Fran takes the glass out and puts in canvas board and paints on them. just some thoughts, will you post pictures of what you do?
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 11:33 PMI have a few ideas
Stained glass
Outdoor decoration/plant holder
Porch divider/Painted
Pots and pans rack
Room divider
wall art
I really dont wnt to make picture frames or end tables
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Mon, June 30, 2008 - 6:02 PMI always thought it would be cool to black out the glass of a divided light window and then paint on both sides one as if you were looking into a house and the other as if you were looking out of it. Then set it up so you could see both sides. -
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Wed, July 2, 2008 - 4:39 PMvery creative idea Prairie Dawn!
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Thu, July 3, 2008 - 7:33 AMWhat about doing an 'acid' etch... where you draw a design on the window... and 'etch' the glass???
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Sun, July 6, 2008 - 9:39 AMYou can paint on them and if they are small enough hang em in your current windows...use stain glass paint, enamel, acrylic etc... -
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Mon, July 7, 2008 - 1:53 PMim thinking paint. any good kinds anyone knows about?? -
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Fri, July 11, 2008 - 7:21 AMI've used the Great Glass brand paints & liquid lead in the past and liked them very much. I purchased them at Michael's.
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Re: when ever a door closes....decorate a window?
Tue, July 8, 2008 - 2:14 PMdont really know your style but you could always decorate them and put them in the trees in your yard. i saw someone do that with old windows. she antiqued them and put color glass in them and then sporatically placed them in the trees. Very pretty and GREAT sounds when rains hits the trees
