Thoughts on design

Musings on architecture and landscape design

D&L glass in Denver, isle one of three!

Got the glass for the lights!  There were probably a thousand or so different types and I took a good look at all the ones that looked promising.  And after all that I went with the color I’d picked out on line!  Except they have two versions of it and this one had some texture to the glass that should refract nicely when light is shining trough it.

Now I should mention when I called them they said that they did not carry the glass I found on Armstrong’s web site, but as it turns out Armstrong apparently changed their numbering system and while the first couple of digits were different the last ones where the same.

D and L Glass ships so if you are interested here is the link  http://www.dlstainedglass.com/index.cfm

Now what I found was interesting is that after I paid the for the glass the sales guy informed me that they were not allowed to wrap it up for me but that I could do it myself.  These people ship glass, what’s the big deal?

Anyway it got home in one piece so I guess that’s what counts.

And the winner is!

Light for Garage

I love Ironwork!  We are putting up new outside lights for the garage and barn.  Finding a large scale good looking light is next to impossible if you are anywhere near as picky as I am. So I drew up this one and a couple other similar ones for the project.  This is the first one, which is almost complete for the steel work. Some parts for the next three are sitting on the table behind it.  Oh and the wire mesh head on the wall is a dragon he has been working on. I’m heading down to Denver tomorrow to pick up amber art glass for them.

Coat of Arms Rendering

Well this was fun, I don’t get to draw up a whimsical bit of ironwork every day, but last week I got to play around with this one.  It’s for the side of a client’s barn.  He thought it would be fun to have a European looking wrought iron plaque hanging off his barn’s dormer and asked me to draw up his family’s coat of arms for it.

There were several variations of the coat of arms down through the centuries.  I took one of the older ones because it had the older more stylized look you’d expect to see on that sort of traditional signage.  The image is a continuous piece like you would have when cutting out a silhouette from a sheet of paper.  I drew it in a form our metalworker can directly (more or less) use to cut out from a sheet of  steel plate with his computer driven plasma cutter.