Showing posts with label glass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glass. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Destin fl interior designer

Much in the way jazz altered our concept of music, glass art has changed our expectations of residential lighting. In fact, glass art lighting is being hailed as one of the hottest new trends to hit luxury home design. According to 25-year Southern California interior designer Greg Griffith, G. Griffith & Co. of Destin, FL, “It’s emerging as a transitional point for a more energetic look. From Asian to 18th Century, every style and design can incorporate glass art lighting. The fact that these are actual sculptured pieces means you’re adding art to the room without cluttering the wall.”

Aside from aesthetics, the benefit to glass art lighting is that it’s so flexible, it ends resolving many design conflicts. Take, for example, the story of the Wisdom Window. This stained glass pieced was created by a California glass artist to create a welcoming light at the end of a dark, New York apartment hallway. The artist created four matching sconces, but wanted the end of the hallway to feel like a window. He innovated a design where a diffuser sheet will be installed underneath the stained glass piece, and lit from behind.

One New York glass artist developed a unique way to illuminate her bathroom. She created her own mosaic glass sink and lit it from underneath to create a warm, amber glow. It also doubles as her nightlight. To underscore the look of an underlit sink, matching sconces are ideal. Some kitchen designers are commissioning glass arts sconces and pendants to match underlit glass kitchen countertops. This creates interesting, ambient lighting in a more finished-looking lighting package. Glass art lighting can be a subtle accent, or a prism through which the light bathes a room in a swatch of exotic colors. “I find many decorators driving décor based on the lighting fixtures,” says Seattle-based glass artist, Suzanne Guttman. “It’s easy to fall in love with a tentacled pendant light or chandelier and make it the centerpiece of a room.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Los angeles interior designer

While most people may only think of windows and windshields when it comes to custom-made glass, a Los Angeles glass supplier can also make glass tabletops and decorative glass. Glass tabletops come in many shapes, sizes and thicknesses; depending on your needs, you can choose from a wide variety of pieces of durable glass. If you want to have a glass tabletop, odds are that you have a specific table in mind already. A small living room coffee table might only require a 16-inch by 55-inch rectangular piece of glass. To be sure that it can withstand the wear and tear of an active living room, you might want to consider getting it in a thickness of at least one inch.

If you want your Los Angeles glass supplier to provide you with a breakfast room tabletop, perhaps a 30-inch round piece of glass would be perfect for your breakfast nook. On the other hand, you might like an oval piece for a 48-inch by 96-inch formal dining room table. Your Los Angeles glass supplier can provide you with glass of any size and several standard thicknesses. Whether you want a tabletop or you have a different purpose in mind for your custom-made piece of glass, countless types of glass are available.

Perhaps you would like a specially coated piece of glass for soundproofing. You can keep your music inside a sound studio or keep outside noises out of your home with soundproof windows. For any glass need you have, you can count on 55 Glass to provide you with high quality glass. This Los Angeles glass supplier is able to custom fabricate virtually any type of flat glass in a short amount of time.