The main purpose of stained glass partitions is to delimit space and bring a special touch to the interior. To create stained glass doors and partitions, they are used various technologies: fusing, Tiffany, jellied, sandblasting type of processing, classic, beveled and film. Any technique will make your decor unique.
Stained glass doors and partitions require careful selection of the design, its shape and size, color palette, stained glass technique. The color scheme of the stained glass door or partition must match color palette the whole room.
Stained glass doors and partitions are installed in the following rooms: hallway, living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, nursery, as well as in the office. 
If the door or partition is made in the form sliding design, then you need to especially carefully select the stained glass technique. For such a design, the door leaf should not be heavy so that the guide rails can withstand the weight of the door leaf.
For large and wide partitions, a landscape pattern or a pattern from geometric shapes. IN dark rooms It is recommended to install transparent stained glass, so the room is filled with light, and the stained glass pattern will be beautiful decor. For bright rooms interesting solution There will be installation of stained glass windows with a non-transparent texture. Such glass will diffuse light throughout the room.
Combination of styles with stained glass partitions
Buy stained glass partitions possible in a specialized workshop. Stained glass partitions made using Tiffany and fusing techniques will cost much more than all others. In general, the cost of a stained glass partition and door will be influenced by the type of structure, the materials from which it will be made, the size and technical features partition structures.
Stained glass partitions can be created in absolutely any style: classic, modern, art deco, Provence, loft, ethno, fusion, high-tech and oriental.
Interior stained glass partitions are one of the most beautiful design solutions. They emphasize the features of the interior, giving it uniqueness and exclusivity. Such stained glass windows are installed in living rooms, used in the kitchen and hallway. Any room - residential or non-residential, where a partition with stained glass is installed - will look impressive. With the help of interior stained glass, you can visually expand the room and zone it. At the same time, due to the translucency of the glass, the space will not be completely divided - thus creating a pleasant and unusual visual effect.
Stained glass partitions in the interior
To make decorative stained glass partitions really become the decoration of the room, you need to be very careful in choosing the design, colors, shape and size. A properly maintained color scheme that matches the style of the entire room will transform it and create a special atmosphere. If the partition is large enough, a landscape or complex drawing from mathematical curves. Stained glass can also be transparent - then such a stained glass window will add light and lightness to the interior and become its main feature. color accent. Can be done stained glass screen completely impenetrable, but even then it will not absorb light, but will softly diffuse it, filling the room with warm colors.
Our designers will help you choose the style that is most suitable for your apartment or other room. We will produce interior stained glass windows in classical techniques, for indoors various sizes and layouts: stained glass partitions for apartments and country houses, office premises, restaurants and shops. In each specific case, we are ready to develop an exclusive design.
Stained glass partition and doors
Once upon a time, such paintings, composed of colored glass, decorated only temples and cathedrals, but since the 19th century, along with the Art Nouveau style, stained glass windows came into the interior residential buildings, firmly settled in it and became a method of creating unique design dwellings.
It is a mistaken belief that stained glass windows in the interior are appropriate only in huge mansions; they have no place in an apartment. And this pleasure is very expensive. Modern technologies make it possible to make the production of stained glass windows affordable, placing them harmoniously in the interior even small apartment, On the contrary, here stained glass windows - in the kitchen, bathroom, hallway - will become a means visual expansion space.
Apartment interior with stained glass
Initially, stained glass consisted of carefully selected pieces of glass connected to each other by metal partitions that created the outline of the pattern and served as a frame for the glass. This is how stained glass was made in medieval times, and this technology is still used today.
This is a classic stained glass window. In addition to this technology, other types of stained glass are distinguished in modern design art.
- Painted. A pseudo-stained glass window, not made up of individual fragments, but painted with special paints inside a three-dimensional contour. Then the drawing is covered with a fixing compound. Its advantage is that it is produced quickly, is affordable and gives great opportunities– you can create any pattern to suit the style of the room, which is why it is one of the most popular types of stained glass.
- Sandblasting. It is created by sandblasting glass and is more often used for the facades of sliding wardrobes, interior doors, and partitions.
- Mosaic. This type of stained glass is similar to the classic one, the difference is that the pattern is laid out from pieces of glass of the same size.
- Fusing. To create it, colored glass fragments are baked; in addition, small foreign particles can be included in them - for example, pieces of wire.
Design of a room with stained glass
Colored stained glass in the interior
In addition to these, it is necessary to highlight etched stained glass, which is based on the ability of hydrofluoric acid to burn through glass. Thanks to this, you can create deep contours, and the drawing turns out voluminous. Stained glass is painted in the same way as painted glass.
Important! A variant of classic stained glass is called Tiffany style. For such mosaic designs, copper foil is used, due to which the outline becomes thinner and the design becomes more elegant. Tiffany stained glass windows allow the use of even small glass, so they are more openwork and light.
Stained glass also includes the film type - the simplest and cheap way create an imitation of stained glass painting on a transparent surface. The glass is simply pasted over with multi-colored elements cut from an adhesive-based film. The outline is applied with special paint.
Various types of stained glass differ in the complexity and cost of work and the materials used, but all of them allow you to create a unique interior.
Apartment interior with stained glass
Interior design of a room with multi-colored stained glass
Unusual stained glass window in apartment design
Stained glass in the interior
Initially, decorative stained glass windows were invented to fill the window opening. Today, not only windows, but also doorways and niches are decorated using glass mosaics; they are also used to create decorative items - lampshades, decorative screens, boxes and vases are created by craftsmen using stained glass techniques.
If we talk about the interior decoration of the home, then the most popular places of application are stained glass technology are:
- window openings - completely or partially;
- doors;
- ceilings;
- niches in the room.
Stained glass windows will be appropriate in any room - they can be placed in the bedroom or living room, as well as in the bathroom or hallway. Only theirs can be different functional purpose: if in the dining room and children's room they are intended to become an element of stylization, then in the bathroom and hallway they can also have a practical function - to close the room from the view of prying eyes.
Design of a room with stained glass
Colored stained glass in the interior
Window stained glass
Stained glass in the window is more appropriate for country house, mansion. Agree, in a multi-story reinforced concrete tower such a design somewhere on the 10th floor level will look ridiculous, but a private house such a design will make it noticeable against the background of other similar ones. Stained glass windows in the interior will decorate not only the classic style, but also:
- avant-garde;
- neoclassicism;
- modern;
- Art Deco.
Successfully complemented stained glass windows English, Scottish country house designs. Floral, landscape scenes, sea spaces - themes for decorating houses in modern styles.
A continuous light belt of bay windows visually expands the room, and a stained glass window in light colors will create a special play of light. It is difficult to decorate a room with such windows with curtains: stained glass will only slightly dim the bright daylight and hide what is happening inside the room from prying eyes. Decorated with stained glass paintings adjacent to the house will look interesting. closed veranda With panoramic windows. Small pieces of glass will create an indescribable atmosphere of something mysterious, magical and at the same time cozy.
If you want to recreate the decoration of an ancient castle, Tiffany styles and fusing allow you to transform Vacation home in a medieval home - stained glass windows with arches will ideally complement the stylization, not only of the interior decoration, but also of the exterior of the house.
Important! It is worth making stained glass windows in rooms where there are no such high requirements for lighting. In the office, for example, it will be dark. The need to strain your eyesight and use artificial light sources while working will become annoying. And in a bright, spacious living room or bedroom, such windows will not cause discomfort.
Apartment interior with stained glass
Interior design of a room with multi-colored stained glass
Unusual stained glass window in apartment design
Doors with stained glass
This is the most popular way to use stained glass in the interior. Interior doors become a means of stylization, a unique decorative element. In addition, they are a way to hide from prying eyes what is happening behind the door, for example, in a bedroom or children's room, saving the owners from the need to install a solid door.
In a nursery, a stained glass pattern on the door can become a continuation of the fairy-tale theme chosen for the decoration of the walls: the windows of a princess’s palace in a girl’s nursery, or the porthole of an underwater bathyscaphe or spaceship in a boy’s bedroom. The avant-garde style in a teenager's room allows pieces of multi-colored glass inserted into the doors, arranged in a certain order or chaotically.
Doors with stained glass painting will decorate the interior in classic style. Correctly selected subjects will complement the Mediterranean, oriental designs living room.
Design of a room with stained glass
Colored stained glass in the interior
Stained glass ceiling
If several centuries ago glass mosaics were often decorated high ceilings rich houses, theaters, now this design is becoming popular again, and not only for styling public institutions - restaurants, theaters, hotel lobbies, but also in residential buildings. Modern technologies make it possible to securely fasten sheets of glass at any height. If you properly install lighting between the main and suspended stained glass ceiling, the effect will be simply amazing.
Important! You can make transparent stained glass not the entire ceiling in a room, for example, a living room or bedroom, but only a part multi-level ceiling– it will make no less an impression.
Apartment interior with stained glass
Interior design of a room with multi-colored stained glass
Unusual stained glass window in apartment design
Decorative stained glass
Stained glass windows in the interior are often used not for practical purposes - to close a window or doorway, but for purely decorative purposes. For example, a stained glass panel irregular shape in a wall niche will make the room cozier, brighter, you can also use a picture of small pieces of glass to visually add light to dark hallway– all you need to do is place a couple stained glass panels on the walls.
False windows with a stained glass insert will look impressive, for example, in a bathroom. The window in this room is new trend, and its absence can be compensated for by imitation with glass mosaic. You definitely need to illuminate the false window from the inside, this will add realism, and the stained glass window will sparkle in a new way.
Design of a room with stained glass
Colored stained glass in the interior
In the spacious living room mosaic panel will create the impression of festivity and pomp. It can be placed on one of the walls, or using this technique you can build a partition that zones the room. It would be successful to use such zoning of a living room combined with a kitchen if the total area is sufficient. You can replace the part of the wall separating the living room from the hallway with a stained glass partition.
Designers recommend such partitions as a unifying element of two adjacent rooms - they seem to flow into one another, while zoning the space and filling both rooms with light. When the lamps are turned on in the evening, a magical atmosphere is created - the stained glass window casts light from the illuminated room onto the dark area.
Apartment interior with stained glass
Interior design of a room with multi-colored stained glass
Unusual stained glass window in apartment design
Stained glass and furniture
Furniture with stained glass – perfect solution for many styles. Cabinets with stained glass fronts would be appropriate in the kitchen, display cases for dishes in the living room, cabinet doors and dressing rooms in the bedroom and hallway. Mirrored pseudo-stained glass or sandblasted glass is often ordered for sliding wardrobes.
A light screen with stained glass inserts can become a decorative item in the bedroom. Its purpose is more decorative, although it can cover part of the space of the room without affecting the illumination of the hidden area.
Original, stylish - mosaic table top for a small coffee table. Shelves and cabinet doors in the bathroom are another use of mosaic technology. Such items are used to create exclusivity in the interior.
Design of a room with stained glass
Colored stained glass in the interior
Stylish things
Stained glass in the interior is not only huge windows and door inserts. The decoration will be complemented by lamps with mosaic lampshades, boxes, and vases made using this technique. A frame framing a wall mirror will enliven a small hallway, just like a stained glass one coffee table in a spacious hall.
The main thing is not to overload the space; it’s better to have a few such objects, but they will become an element of the design and will be combined with it according to color scheme so as not to stand out from the general decoration of the home. The choice of technology will depend on the design of the room: classic stained glass should not be used in modern high-tech, minimalism, loft styles. But that doesn't mean that glass mosaic and modernity are two incompatible things. Geometric patterns, suitable subjects and modern technologies decorations will help you create an unusual and cozy home, distinguished by exclusivity and originality.
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The use of stained glass technology allows you to decorate a room in an original way, highlight its style and sophistication, and create the necessary coziness and comfort. Stained glass partitions allowing passage through colored glass rays of light look especially impressive in spacious rooms with good lighting - living rooms, halls, dining rooms and studios.
In addition to aesthetics and beauty, interior stained glass partitions allow you to effectively divide space into zones without interfering with capital structures.
Types of partitions with stained glass windows
Design features make it possible to divide partitions with stained glass elements into several types:- Stationary - act as a replacement for main walls, they are installed more often in small rooms, as they visually make the space wider.
- Sliding – in demand in rooms where clear zoning is not required. The movability of the panels makes it easy to divide the room into parts if necessary and restore the integrity of the decor.
- Stained glass screens are mobile structures, installed in office premises for protection from sunlight or to highlight individual zones.
GLASSTRONG offers big choice partitions at an attractive price. From us you can order and buy products based on individual sketches, as well as designs developed by our designers.
The sunlight pouring through the colorful stained glass window is, you see, a stunning sight. Stained glass windows are associated with pomp and even monumentality, since stained glass windows most often decorate the buildings of museums and churches. Therefore, many people are sure that stained glass windows have no place in the interior of a residential building. In addition, it is generally accepted that stained glass is very expensive and clearly not designed for the average interior.
However, both of these are not entirely true. It's worth saying that stained glass in the interior residential buildings were used back in the 19th century, when the Art Nouveau style came into fashion. As for the cost of stained glass, modern technologies have made it possible to significantly reduce the cost of their production, which, of course, affected the price. Stained glass is not such a luxury these days as one might think. Moreover, there are pseudo-stained glass windows available to everyone.
Types of stained glass depending on manufacturing technique
Transparent pieces of glass, cut according to a pattern, are held together with a metal broach (partition). At the joints the broach is soldered. The result is a single structure made of glass and metal, and the metal not only serves as a frame, but also forms the outline of the lines of the design. This technique has changed little since the Middle Ages.
Stained glass windows made using the Tiffany technique are also called classic. The peculiarity of this technology is that copper foil is used to hold the glass together. The stained glass pattern is lighter, more elegant, and the outline is thinner. The Tiffany technique allows you to use smaller glass, so stained glass windows turn out to be openwork.
The surface of the glass, whole (pseudo-stained glass) or assembled from fragments, is painted with transparent paints.
The glass surface is covered with special colored films with an adhesive base.
The stained glass window consists of a group of glasses that have been sandblasted.
This stained glass window usually has a geometric structure. It is assembled from modules of almost identical size, which can be pre-processed using one of the techniques.
This stained glass window is created by baking multi-colored glass fragments or by incorporating foreign elements into the glass (for example, “baking” wire into the glass).
Taken clear glass, a drawing is drawn up on it, according to which colored glass fragments are laid out in several layers. The composition is then placed in an oven heated to a certain temperature. In the oven, all layers are sintered and become one.
The basis is the ability of hydrofluoric acid to destroy glass. Using special stencils that protect glass from destruction, craftsmen create deep contours of designs of any complexity.
And that’s not all the techniques for creating modern stained glass! There are other interesting and original techniques. Thus, all stained glass windows are very different, and their prices can vary significantly.
It is interesting that stained glass, originally invented by man to fill window openings, today it performs its main function less and less often. Much more popular are various decorative elements from stained glass in the interior. First of all, these are various accessories made using stained glass: for example, boxes, lamp shades, screens, etc.
Becoming increasingly popular doors with stained glass. In general, today the sale of interior doors with a variety of glass inserts is very common. Various techniques glass treatments transform ordinary interior doors into a real work of art and elegant interior decoration.
Stained glass for doors is maximally protected (for example, thanks to the triplex technology), and although they look very fragile, in fact there is no need to worry about their reliability.
Interior doors with stained glass windows create stunning effects associated with the play of light. In addition, they set the tone for the entire interior, making it gloomy on one side and ceremonial on the other.
In those interiors where stained glass windows are used, especially interior ones (whether doors or partitions), a certain mystery reigns. Still, associations with Gothic churches and ancient museums make themselves felt.
Stained glass partitions, stained glass walls and screens in the interior
Stained glass partitions are less common than interior doors with stained glass, but this design technique is also of increasing interest.
Like any glass wall, it is light, even airy. This is especially important when the goal is not to isolate one space from another, but only to separate them. Firstly, thanks to the transparency of the partition, the rooms seem to flow into one another. Secondly, the “two-sidedness” of such partitions introduces a common element into both spaces.
Stained glass partitions look great in spacious rooms, filled with light - both natural and artificial. Stained glass partitions allow soft colored light to pass through during the day, and in the evening, when the lamps are turned on, the partition itself becomes a kind of “ lighting device”, pouring light into a darker space.
Beautiful and so unusual pieces of furniture with stained glass. For example, stained glass glass can be a display case for a living room or inserts into facades kitchen furniture. You can and even need to support the stained glass theme with stained glass accessories: lamps, decorative items (for example, vases), a chandelier, etc. You can also make stained glass glass doors sliding wardrobes. You can also order mirrored pseudo-stained glass windows for the wardrobe.
Stained glass in the interior for wall decoration
Stained glass picture or stained glass panel
These elements do not carry any practical functions, but they become bright interior decoration. Stained glass paintings are suitable for spacious hallways, living rooms, and formal dining rooms. Stained glass paintings and panels, as a rule, are made to order for a specific interior, so they fit perfectly into its theme, making the room festive and elegant.
Stained glass for niches and other complex structures
Various niches and projections are still relevant. However, volumetric wall structures made of plasterboard, plywood, etc. have become so widespread that it is difficult to surprise anyone with their design.
The shapes are repeated, but the use of unusual materials allows you to create something extraordinary. Stained glass windows will also help with this. Internal walls The niches can be covered with a stained glass screen behind which there is lighting. A stained glass niche with light pouring through can make an impression.
If a niche is mounted to create a false window, stained glass will come in handy here too. But in any case, backlighting is needed - the false window will then sparkle and become the most realistic.
Stained glass in the interior: ceiling
A few centuries ago, stained glass windows were popular in Europe. ceiling lamps, which decorated not only the premises of theaters, museums and expensive restaurants, but also residential buildings. True, only rich people could afford such luxury.
Today this pleasure is also not the cheapest, but quite affordable, especially if we are not talking about Tiffany stained glass windows. There are reliable ceiling structures (frames) that allow you to hold sheets of almost any material on the ceiling: metal, wood, mirrors and, of course, glass.
Film or painted multilayer pseudo-stained glass windows are most often used for production. Essentially it's just glass dropped ceilings with painting, but what an effect! Of course, a completely stained-glass ceiling in an apartment will not always fit into the interior, but small ceiling structures with stained-glass windows look very original. Between the base ceiling and suspended structure Of course, it is very advisable to install lighting so that the stained glass window opens in all its glory.
Color and style of stained glass in the interior: how to choose
You can choose any ornament and any theme. Some people prefer narrative stained glass windows in the interior on a household or even religious theme. Of course, such stained glass windows are only appropriate in luxurious interiors in the Art Nouveau, Neo-Gothic style, etc.
For niches and false windows Landscape themes with realistic mountains, ocean beaches, and rainbow skies are often chosen.
Stained glass windows with floral theme , repeating motifs from old projects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Art Nouveau style. Such floral stained glass windows will look great in interiors in the art nouveau, art deco, neoclassical, and avant-garde styles.
It is also successful to use them in themed interiors- floral, English, Scottish, etc.
Classic stained glass windows in the Tiffany style suitable for interiors in almost any style, with the exception of ultra-modern, minimalist, technical ones.
IN modern interiors you can use stained glass windows made according to one of latest technologies, with geometric patterns and plot painting on a suitable theme (for example, an urban plot).
When choosing stained glass for your interior, you need to take into account not only the style of the room, but also the prevailing colors. It is worth turning to those colors that are present in furniture, decor, textiles, so that the stained glass window does not stand out too much from the overall picture.
Stained glass in the interior: in what rooms is it appropriate?
Almost all of them. - it's fashionable today. The shelves and doors of bathroom furniture are made of stained glass. You can also find stained glass and pseudo-stained glass bathroom accessories in stores. If there is a window in the bathroom, it is often made of stained glass. Well, if there is no window, then they create a stained glass false window with lighting.
According to many, they are the most appropriate. Here you can make a stained glass half-partition, install a showcase with a stained glass door, or order a stained glass screen for the fireplace. The stained glass picture will become dominant decorative item. Of course, you should not use too many stained glass elements in one room - two or three matching items will be quite enough.
Can be used: these, as already mentioned, are stained glass inserts in kitchen facades, stained glass chandelier or sconce, ceiling structure with pseudo-stained glass (for example, above work area or over the island).
Small stained glass panels can be made from small colored glass. You need to make a pattern out of the pieces of glass, then solder them with tin, using lead wire for the “frame,” that is, to connect the pieces of glass.
Easiest way to do it at home pseudo stained glass, using dark nitro paint for the contours of the picture, and special stained glass paints to fill the contours and the rest of the space. It is better to take textured glass for stained glass.
You can use special paints for painting on glass to paint windows and mirrors. To do this you will need stencils, brushes, paints and a little patience. The glass must be removed and placed on a flat horizontal surface - only in this case can a neat painting be obtained.
If you want to make a painting on already installed windows, it is better to use special self-adhesive films for stained glass (English technology). Translucent color stickers are available, so you don’t even have to cut out the ornament yourself.
Well, for activities with children there are creativity kits - plastic stencils for stained glass with clear depressed or convex contours, which are filled with safe stained glass paints. By choosing suitable stencils, you can make a stained glass (pseudo-stained glass) window in the nursery.
Real stained glass for large surfaces, components design elements interior design, of course, should be ordered from professionals, fortunately in our country there are now many stained glass workshops that use the most different techniques: from the classic Tiffany technique and fusing to painting on solid glass.
