Stained Glass Skylight

This page describes one of the phases of the multi-year Master Bathroom Remodeling Project.

As discussed extensively on the Bathroom Skylight Page, the desire for the bathroom skylight to be stained glass was ever present, but unrealized. Five years later, the itch resurfaced to improve the skylight, including using transparent paints or possibly making it myself.

I also decided to re-visit contracting out the work and re-solicited five places in the my area to see what sorts of quotes I would get. Only one of them overlapped with ones I had previously contacted. I pointed these candidate contractors at my Bathroom Skylight Designs Page to help them prepare a quote. The first four responses I received made it seem like it was going to be the same as five years earlier: out of my budget range. However, the last place to get back to me produced a quote at the upper range of the budget. The winning quote was from River City Glassworks and they wound up being a great partner and produced a fantastic final result.

Kathryn and Sondra from River City Glassworks came to our house to take measurements and discuss design parameters. They were thoughtful, very professional and very much seemed in sync with my ideas. They offered much in helping to redesign to piece to make it more feasible to build and more visually attractive. The original Frank Lloyd Wright design was never actually built, and I was educated on why a lot of that design was not practical.

As they estimated, it took them about 5 weeks to build the panel. I picked it up in person and got a very nice tour of their shop and classroom. It looked great by itself and I was anxious to see how it would look installed.

Installing the panel is merely laying it on top of the border molding I previous added (after taking out the placeholder glass). The final result was many years in the making and very satisfying.