More About Art Glass

Creating Your Glass Work

We make showers, mirrors, windows, tables, room dividers, staircase and balcony rails, ceilings, walls, and doors.

Our goal is to make art for you within budget. Complicated and difficult things take a long time and cost a lot of money; simple and easy things we can do relatively quickly and inexpensively, so bear in mind that the bigger your budget the more techniques and the more complicated designs we can do for you, and the smaller your budget the simpler the design and the easier the technique that we'll employ for you.

We do our job in four steps.

Consultation
First, we talk. This is the free step. I'm interested in finding out the answers to two questions:
(1) If it were free, what would it look like?
(2) Well, it's not going to be free, so how much money seems reasonable to you?

Design
Once agreement is reached on a general style and a rough price-range, we get $100, or 10%, whichever is greater, as a deposit to do a drawing of what we think you want.

It may take more than one drawing to achieve the balance between looks and money that you want to achieve, but the initial payment covers all those drawings unless you change the notion altogether -- for example, if we've been drawing dahlias and you decide you want dolphins we get another deposit to change. But as long as we're drawing bigger or smaller or more or fewer or red or blue dahlias, your initial deposit covers all the art.
Construction
After consultation, and design are complete, we get 80% down and begin fabricating your art glass.

The techniques we use include staining, etching, sandblasting, gluechipping, leading, beveling, overlay, bonding, v-grooving, painting, firing, slumping and bending.
Delivery and Installation
We install to order in existing wood, metal and vinyl installations, and fabricate wood, metal, and plastics to make installations.

Final payment is due on installation, delivery, or pickup -- whatever we've agreed.

How Architectural Art Glass is Made