Learn the way Linda turned her present window into a fake stained glass window with simple to put in leaded traces. It’s a wonderful basic design and provides privateness to a plain window, and it’s simple to make your personal stained glass at dwelling!
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DIY Fake Stained Glass Window Tutorial
by Linda at It All Began With Paint
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Hello everybody! My title is Linda from It All Started With Paint and I’m thrilled to be collaborating within the Remodelaholic ‘All Issues Home windows’ occasion.
Earlier than I share my faux leaded glass window challenge, let me share a bit background about me. I’m a Jersey-born-and-bred Midwestern transplant who lives in Chicago with my husband and two kids. Seventeen years in the past I left a profitable profession in public relations to remain at dwelling and lift my kids. Since then, I’ve balanced youngster rearing with freelance public relations work.
Then three years in the past I found the world of DIY and residential décor blogs. I used to be impressed by the superb – and inexpensive – transformations so many gifted girls (like Cassity) had been making to their properties. It woke up my ‘internal Martha’ and I made a decision so as to add my voice to the blogosphere.
Since then, I’ve been chronicling my DIY, room rework, crafting, and cooking journey on my weblog, It All Started With Paint. And, simply because I’m a glutton for punishment, I even began a second weblog, Mason Jar Crafts Love, the place I share revolutionary methods to craft, prepare dinner, and enhance with mason jars.
Again to my dwelling DIY journey. Our home is over 100 years previous. Don’t get too excited. It comes with not one of the previous world appeal you may think a house constructed within the late 1800’s would possess. It does, nonetheless, include an entire lot of previous home money-pit complications! However that’s a submit for “This Previous Home Complications Week” …
I satisfaction myself on being a make lemonade out of lemons particular person. And when confronted with modern-looking home windows and mouldings that didn’t actually match with the coastal-nautical-city-cottage vibe I’m hoped to infuse into our dwelling, I set about giving them a little bit of previous world aptitude. On a budget, after all, with a fake stained glass window remedy … sure you may stain glass in an present window!
In search of one thing even simpler? Seize this cheap privateness movie for a one-step fake stained glass window.
How you can DIY Fake Stained Glass Home windows
Step 1: Draw the glass design
I began out drawing my fake stained glass design on a chunk of paper the precise dimensions of the window opening. Evidently, there was lots of erasing and redrawing to get the proper match.
My window design is all straight traces, which made it simple to attract and simple to create utilizing primarily the peel and stick DIY stained glass main traces.
For extra natural shapes, you could possibly use stencils or cups, bowls, and so on to make good even curves and easy designs.
Step 2: Switch the design to the window
Now, if I might simply attain the surface of the window, I might simply tape that drawing to it with painters tape and hint the sample proper onto the glass. However that wasn’t an choice. So I put my drawing up in opposition to the window and, utilizing a pencil, frivolously marked off my lead line beginning factors on the sides of the window body.
PS: You should definitely clear your glass properly with glass cleaner earlier than transferring the fake stained glass black outlines!
Step 3: Apply leaded glass traces
Then it was time to seize my Gallery Glass supplies, which I discovered on the craft retailer. These provides are additionally obtainable here on Amazon. I used window leading strips, liquid leading, and crystal clear window color (and there’s a combo kit here).
I used the clear window coloring so as to add a frosted glass look to my stained glass window. If you happen to’d like a extra colourful stained glass window, use the colored Gallery Glass paints as a substitute like Madigan added to her sidelights right here. There are additionally colorful window films you could possibly use.
These leading strips are pure genius. You may simply lower them. Simply reposition them to observe the traces of your sample. I simply used a degree to maintain my vertical traces straight. Press firmly on the sting of the lead strips to make sure good adhesion.
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The I added some liquid leading “solder” to scrub up the leaded areas the place items didn’t fairly join. That is mainly fancy black acrylic paint.
I let that dry for 8-10 hours, per the directions on the bottle.
For curved traces, circles, or different natural shapes that aren’t straight traces, Gallery Glass recommends creating a DIY stained glass window cling. You’ll use a spare piece of glass (like from an image body), place the sample beneath, apply the liquid main and the stained glass paint, then let it dry and peel it from the glass to put on the window.
Step 4: Apply stained glass shade paint
Section two was the appliance of the Crystal Clear glass color. Which, clearly, is colorless. After it dries, that’s. Throughout utility it was milky white.
The colorful DIY stained glass window paint applies the identical means — opaque throughout utility and translucent after it dries (type of like Mod Podge or Elmer’s glue).
I used to be a bit heavy handed. Squeezing it out straight from the bottle onto the window. Utterly forgetting in regards to the results of gravity. There was some revisiting all through the day to wipe away the Crystal Clear from the lead traces and the underside of the window pane.
My advice is to skip my heavy-handed technique and use some sort of applicator. Like a paintbrush. And portray on a number of gentle coats till you attain your required look.
Gallery Glass recommends making use of the DIY stained glass window paint on to the window from the bottle, then utilizing this pick tool to brush/stir to unfold and mix the paint. This additionally helps take away air bubbles trapped beneath the paint.
Ultimately, I’m actually proud of the way it turned out.
It actually does praise my dining room remodel.
In actual fact, I beloved it a lot that I created one in my lounge as properly.
You may see my totally transformed coastal-nautical-city-cottage-look eating room and dwelling rooms (full with fake leaded glass home windows) — in addition to the fake stained glass window I created in my entryway throughout my pre-blogging days — by visiting the room remodels section on my blog.
Thanks a lot Cassity for inviting me to share my fake stained glass window tutorial along with your Remodelaholic readers! Hopefully they’re impressed so as to add a little bit of previous world home appeal to their very personal properties – with out the previous home money-pit complications!
It’s also possible to discover me on social media, together with Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. I’d love so that you can cease by and socialize!
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DIY Stained Glass Window FAQs
Is DIY stained glass costly?
Fake stained glass just isn’t costly and it’s a really inexpensive method to create your personal privateness window and add some basic model to your property. A pack of leading strips and a combo kit of liquid leading and glass paint value lower than $50 (and you should use coupons at most craft shops!) and can cowl a number of common dimension home windows, relying in your design.
Is that this DIY fake stained glass window paint removeable?
Sure! The paint may be very sturdy however can be eliminated in case you’d prefer to return to the flat glass window. Simply use a glass scraper tool or craft blade/utility knife to attain the sides, then fastidiously scrape up the paint — it might even peel off in a single piece.
How do I clear a fake stained glass window?
Because the stained glass paint and main are utilized to the within of the window solely, you may proceed to scrub the outside of the window like typical. For the textured within the window, wipe clear often with a lint-free microfiber fabric to take away mud.
Can I exploit this technique for a children glass window artwork lesson?
In fact! The Gallery Glass provides are a fantastic choice for teenagers and adults alike to create your personal imitation stained glass artwork and stain your personal “window” in a photograph body or any sheet of glass. (We love artwork historical past!)
If you happen to’re on a funds, you may exchange the liquid main with black glue (coloured with paint) to hint the sample or silhouette on transparency film sheets as a substitute of glass. Add meals coloring or a pair drops of acrylic paint to some tablespoons of clear glue, white faculty glue, or Mod Podge Gloss in a disposable bowl or muffin tin, then paint the coloured glue within the sections you’d like.
Can I exploit window movie to seem like stained glass?
Sure! If you happen to’re on the lookout for a fast set up, there are a lot of lovely privateness window movies that seem like stained glass, plus different lovely designs. Listed below are a number of of our favorites:
- Window main strips
- Liquid main black
- Crystal clear window paint or coloured Gallery Glass paint
Step 1: Draw the glass design
-
I began out drawing my fake stained glass design on a chunk of paper the precise dimensions of the window opening. Evidently, there was lots of erasing and redrawing to get the proper match.
-
My window design is all straight traces, which made it simple to attract and simple to create utilizing primarily the peel and stick DIY stained glass main traces.
-
For extra natural shapes, you could possibly use stencils or cups, bowls, and so on to make good even curves and easy designs.
Step 2: Switch the design to the window
-
Now, if I might simply attain the surface of the window, I might simply tape that drawing to it with painters tape and hint the sample proper onto the glass. However that wasn’t an choice. So I put my drawing up in opposition to the window and, utilizing a pencil, frivolously marked off my lead line beginning factors on the sides of the window body.
-
PS: You should definitely clear your glass properly with glass cleaner earlier than transferring the fake stained glass black outlines!
Step 3: Apply leaded glass traces
-
Then it was time to seize my Gallery Glass provides, which I discovered on the craft retailer. These provides are additionally obtainable on Amazon. I used window main strips, liquid main, and crystal clear window shade (and there’s a combo package).
-
I used the clear window coloring so as to add a frosted glass look to my stained glass window. If you happen to’d like a extra colourful stained glass window, use the coloured Gallery Glass paints as a substitute. There are additionally colourful window movies you could possibly use.
-
These main strips are pure genius. You may simply lower them. Simply reposition them to observe the traces of your sample. I simply used a degree to maintain my vertical traces straight. Press firmly on the sting of the lead strips to make sure good adhesion.
-
Then I added some liquid main “solder” to scrub up the leaded areas the place items didn’t fairly join. That is mainly fancy black acrylic paint.
-
I let that dry for 8-10 hours, per the directions on the bottle.
-
For curved traces, circles, or different natural shapes that aren’t straight traces, Gallery Glass recommends making a DIY stained glass window cling. You’ll use a spare piece of glass (like from an image body), place the sample beneath, apply the liquid main and the stained glass paint, then let it dry and peel it from the glass to put on the window.
Step 4: Apply stained glass shade paint
-
Section two was the appliance of the Crystal Clear glass shade. Which, clearly, is colorless. After it dries, that’s. Throughout utility it was milky white.
-
The colourful DIY stained glass window paint applies the identical means — opaque throughout utility and translucent after it dries (type of like Mod Podge or Elmer’s glue).
-
I used to be a bit heavy handed. Squeezing it out straight from the bottle onto the window. Utterly forgetting in regards to the results of gravity. There was some revisiting all through the day to wipe away the Crystal Clear from the lead traces and the underside of the window pane.
-
My advice is to skip my heavy-handed technique and use some sort of applicator. Like a paintbrush. And portray on a number of gentle coats till you attain your required look.
-
Gallery Glass recommends making use of the DIY stained glass window paint on to the window from the bottle, then utilizing this choose device to brush/stir to unfold and mix the paint. This additionally helps take away air bubbles trapped beneath the paint.
-
Let it dry and revel in your new stained glass window!
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