The Garden Shed with Stained Glass ART

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One may question what Stained Glass ART has to do with a Garden Shed. But have a look at the 2 comparing pictures below :

before

after

The appearance of the Garden Shed improved dramatically after applying Stained Glass ART. Although in this project, the old shed already had a simple stained glass diamond pattern with white glass, the change to an individual design with colored and structured glass yielded a substantial improvement. Now imagine such a window in your shed, specially if it is a mass-produced "standard" sheds with a plastic panel as window. With Stained Glass ART windows, you will own a individual Garden Shed tailored to your taste, in harmony with your garden and house, improving its value. 

Unfortunately many garden sheds can not be hidden in a smaller garden, although they should, as they can kill your intended garden design and color arrangements. But you often will need a shed for your storage of tools and accessories, so why not make it a beautiful feature of your garden.

The colors, combined to match a colorful flower field, add variation to the appearance. But even in conditions of direct sunlight, the colors remain in the background and do not disturb the harmony of the garden. Bright colors would act like a disturbing eye-catching billboard, drawing the attention away from the overall garden layout you worked so hard to achieve. The colored glass also has the advantage of reducing the radiation heat inside the shed in summer, protecting tools or stocked plants inside from direct sunlight.

Above project also incorporated the emblem found in most windows of the main house of the property, to form a unity between the shed and the house, promoting the shed and transforming this part of the garden into a intended extension of the main building. 

Below is a picture of the garden shed standing in the shadows. Now bright features opposing the shed, here parts of the white main house, reflect in the glass, showing the structure of the used glass and its colors, but still in a unobtrusive way. 

Your garden shed starts to live, changing appearance with the move of the sun, 
the color of the sky, throughout the year, different each seasons.

Then at night, with a simple illumination installed in the shed, it can be turned into a distinctive garden feature, showing off its colors and pattern, in harmony with other illuminations that may be present for flowers and trees.

The original pattern design and color fill

Note that the colorful appearance of the design pattern does not fully translate into the real appearance.

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These stained glass windows are not of the shelf, they need careful consideration. 
Each window is build individually in a time consuming but rewarding process.
Only your personal design guidelines will achieve a result you will be pleased to look at for years to come.

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Just an idea.... ! ?

This next example of Stained Glass ART windows has not been actually build, but is digitally painted, using the picture of a garden shed from B&Q, the 6x4 Shiplap Apex Shed, with the windows replaced by a screenshot of a design pattern. The two original windows (610 x 610mm) had fixed plastic glazing, and have been replaced by 2 Stained Glass ART windows. Plastic glazing will loose its brilliance and reflection within one season, showing for years to come every scratch. Real glass will remain brilliant and reflective its whole life and can easily be cleaned.
Although in real life the shed will look even more vibrant and alive, these digitally mastered images give you a idea on how the shed can blend into the garden environment. A little darker varnish (or Teak-Oil) onto the wood of the shed at the end of the season for conservation, and the shed is promoted to a harmonic feature of the garden, not drawing too much attention to it, but being there in its own right. Imagine the shed being a couple of years old, having changed colors on its wood and roof during the seasons weather attacks, perfect. To apply Stained Glass ART windows, the shed does not need to be new. The older it is, the less "factory-smell" it has, the more individual and unique it becomes.

ARTh 2003