How you can DIY Fake Stained Glass Home windows

Find out how Linda turned her present window into a pretend stained glass window with simple to put in leaded traces. It’s an exquisite traditional design and provides privateness to a plain window, and it’s simple to make your personal stained glass at house!

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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 Began With Paint and I’m thrilled to be taking part within the Remodelaholic ‘All Issues Home windows’ occasion.

Again to my house DIY journey. Our home is over 100 years outdated. Don’t get too excited. It comes with not one of the outdated world attraction you may think a house constructed within the late 1800’s would possess. It does, nonetheless, include an entire lot of outdated home money-pit complications! However that’s a publish for “This Previous Home Complications Week” …

I satisfaction myself on being a make lemonade out of lemons individual. 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with the coastal-nautical-city-cottage vibe I’m hoped to infuse into our house, I set about giving them a little bit of outdated world aptitude. On a budget, in fact, with a pretend stained glass window remedy … sure you possibly can stain glass in an present 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 bit of paper the precise dimensions of the window opening. Evidently, there was a variety 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 forth to make good even curves and easy designs.

Step 2: Switch the design to the window

Now, if I may simply attain the surface of the window, I’d 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 towards the window and, utilizing a pencil, evenly marked off my lead line beginning factors on the sides of the window body.

PS: You’ll want to clear your glass nicely 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 out there right here on Amazon. I used window main strips, liquid main, and crystal clear window shade (and there’s a combo package right here).

I used the clear window coloring so as to add a frosted glass look to my stained glass window. In the event you’d like a extra colourful stained glass window, use the coloured Gallery Glass paints as a substitute like Madigan added to her sidelights right here. There are additionally colourful window movies you could possibly use.

These main strips are pure genius. You’ll be able to simply minimize them. Simply reposition them to observe the traces of your sample. I simply used a stage 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 main “solder” to wash 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

Part two was the appliance of the Crystal Clear glass shade. Which, clearly, is colorless. After it dries, that’s. Throughout software it was milky white.

The colourful DIY stained glass window paint applies the identical manner — opaque throughout software 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 instantly 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 suggestion is to skip my heavy-handed methodology and use some sort of applicator. Like a paintbrush. And portray on a number of mild 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 decide software to brush/stir to unfold and mix the paint. This additionally helps take away air bubbles trapped beneath the paint.

Ultimately, I’m actually pleased with the way it turned out.

It actually does praise my eating room rework.

Actually, I cherished it a lot that I created one in my lounge as nicely.

You’ll be able to see my absolutely reworked coastal-nautical-city-cottage-look eating room and residing 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 part on my weblog.

Thanks a lot Cassity for inviting me to share my fake stained glass window tutorial together with your Remodelaholic readers! Hopefully they’re impressed so as to add a little bit of outdated world home attraction to their very personal properties – with out the outdated home money-pit complications!

You too can discover me on social media, together with Fb, Pinterest, and Twitter. I’d love so that you can cease by and socialize!

DIY Stained Glass Window FAQs

Is DIY stained glass costly?

Fake stained glass isn’t costly and it’s a really reasonably priced method to create your personal privateness window and add some traditional type to your own home. A pack of main strips and a combo package of liquid main and glass paint price lower than $50 (and you should utilize coupons at most craft shops!) and can cowl a number of common measurement home windows, relying in your design.

Is that this DIY fake stained glass window paint removeable?

Sure! The paint could be very sturdy however will also be eliminated should you’d prefer to return to the flat glass window. Simply use a glass scraper software or craft blade/utility knife to attain the sides, then rigorously scrape up the paint — it might even peel off in a single piece.

How do I clear a pretend stained glass window?

Because the stained glass paint and main are utilized to the within of the window solely, you possibly can proceed to wash the outside of the window like typical. For the textured inside the window, wipe clear often with a lint-free microfiber fabric to take away mud.

Can I exploit this methodology for a youngsters glass window artwork lesson?

In fact! The Gallery Glass provides are an amazing choice for youths 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!)

In the event you’re on a price range, you possibly can change the liquid main with black glue (coloured with paint) to hint the sample or silhouette on transparency movie 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! In the event you’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 here are a number of of our favorites:

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