Stained Glass Window Panels, Your Rooms Finishing Touch

Prisms of brilliant colors, dancing shadows of shifting light created by the sun streaming through a stained glass window panel as the sun takes its course across the morning sky. Light so beautiful and elegant, changing every moment creating new designs as it fills your favorite room. That is the charm of a stained glass window panel.

It's always been assumed that a vase full of colorful flowers or a bowl full of fruit is the finishing touch for your living room, den or dining room. You would be right if they were shaped into a beautiful lasting tiffany stained glass window or stained glass window panel.

For hundreds of years (painted) stain glass window panels have been adorning the windows of churches, offices, and homes in every corner of the world. Around the turn of the 19th century, Louis Comfort Tiffany along with his chemist developed a new method of fusing metals and pigments into molten glass resulting in richer more vibrant colored Opalescent, Translucent and Iridescent style used in todays stained glass design.

(A more thorough description of the history and origins of painted glass and the ancient arts of the stained glass window panels can be found in the Catholic Encyclopedia).

Stained glass window panels are a virtual kaleidoscope of designs that include scenes of colorful flowers, fruit bowls, birds, animals, forest and shimmering ocean scenes. There are many design options available from round stained glass windows to square, tall, wide and octagon shapes. You even have the option of working with a stained glass design manufacture to create a custom stained glass window panel for your business, bar, office, or club. Stained glass designs are endless, limited only by the cost and or imagination of the stained glass window designers.

Many people refer to these beautiful creations as tiffany stained glass windows. One Stained Glass Window company defines Tiffany as:

This brought about the use of "Tiffany Window" or "Tiffany Stain Glass Window".

It's no wonder that stained glass window panels have such a huge following and are so popular. They have been a part of human history in one form or another for over two thousand years.

However you prefer to call them, Stained glass window panels or Tiffany stain glass windows are the perfect complement to any room design and the finishing touch to your living room, den or family room. Beautiful stained glass window panels will brighten your mornings, soften the heat of the afternoon sun with a prism of brilliant colors and give you lasting enjoyment through every season of the year.

Stained glass window panels come in a variety of styles and shapes including round, square, wide, tall and oval. There are left and right stain glass window corner brackets available as well. Many times stained glass window panels hang in middle of your window or hung so several stained glass window panels can hang side by side.

Measuring you window for a perfect fit

Some people buy stained glass window panels to fit an entire window space. If you are looking to have custom glass window panels made to fit inside a window space getting a right measurement might be important to you. The following will help you achieve the proper fit for your new stained glass window panels.

Consider that your window might not be completely square. As with hanging mini blinds, take 3 different measurements at the top, middle and bottom of the window space. This will insure that your stained glass window panels will have the best fit possible.

Lasting Timeless Beauty versus Cost

Cost will usually be a factor in deciding which style or shape of stained glass window panel or Tiffany Stained Glass Window you choose. For a nice well made stained glass window panel you can expect to pay as little as $150 to $250 and they go up from there to $600 to $1000, but can cost as much as $5000 and more. In the early 1900's a large Stained Glass Window Panel could cost around $150 to $200 with the smaller Stained Glass Window Panels costing around $60 to $80. The price of a beautiful Stained Glass Window Panel hasn't changed much in the last hundred plus years if you take into account the rise of inflation.

When you consider the cost of a Stained Glass Window Panel as they did a hundred years ago, consider also their lasting timeless beauty. The years of enjoyment you will receive from having  Tiffany Stained Glass Windows may be well worth the investment.

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