Breaking Tradition: Contemporary Stained Glass to Houston Modern Buyers
When most people picture stained glass, they picture a cathedral window — figures in flowing robes, deep blues and rubies, a frame of Gothic tracery. That tradition is beautiful, and we honor it in our restoration work every week. But stained glass has never stopped moving forward. Today, contemporary stained...
What to Expect During Stained Glass Restoration Serving Houston Parishes
Historic church windows are among the most treasured artifacts a Houston parish can hold. Some of our oldest congregations, like the Church of the Annunciation downtown, have occupied their sites since 1869, and the Greek Orthodox community raised its cathedral on Yoakum Street in the early 1950s. Windows of that...
Elevating Entryways Using Transom Stained Glass Adorning Houston Front Doors
The front door says more about a Houston home than any other single feature. It is the first thing guests touch, the first thing neighbors notice from the sidewalk, and the last thing you see when you leave for the day. Yet the space directly above that door is often...
3 Reasons to Upgrade with Bathroom Stained Glass Throughout Houston Residences
Bathrooms are the hardest rooms in any Houston home to get right. The windows are small, the neighbors are close, and the Gulf Coast humidity punishes every fabric and film you throw at the problem. That is exactly why we spend so much of our studio time designing bathroom stained...
Selecting Stained Glass Windows Inside Houston Estates for Unique Eras
Houston is a city of architectural eras living side by side. A 1920s bungalow in the Houston Heights can sit a few blocks from a mid-century ranch in Meyerland, and both can share a neighborhood with a grand River Oaks estate modeled on English manor houses. When homeowners come to...
Selecting Stained Glass Windows Inside Houston Estates for Unique Eras
Houston is a city of architectural eras living side by side. A 1920s bungalow in the Houston Heights can sit a few blocks from a mid-century ranch in Meyerland, and both can share a neighborhood with a grand River Oaks estate modeled on English manor houses. When homeowners come to...
Selecting Stained Glass Windows Inside Houston Estates for Unique Eras
Houston is a city of architectural eras living side by side. A 1920s bungalow in the Houston Heights can sit a few blocks from a mid-century ranch in Meyerland, and both can share a neighborhood with a grand River Oaks estate modeled on English manor houses. When homeowners come to...
Designing Greene and Greene Stained Glass in Houston TX
Some architectural styles announce themselves loudly. Greene and Greene does the opposite, and that quiet confidence is exactly why it still turns heads more than a century after it first appeared. If you have ever stepped onto a deep covered porch, admired broad eaves with exposed rafters, or noticed leaded...
Capturing Organic Curves with Art Nouveau Stained Glass in Houston Interiors
Art Nouveau never really left. The movement flourished between about 1890 and 1910, but its language of sweeping vines, whiplash curves, and flowers that seem to grow out of the window frame still feels fresh in a Houston interior. We see it every time we sketch a new design for...
5 Things to Know Before Ordering Custom Stained Glass for Houston Homeowners
Ordering a one-of-a-kind glass panel for your home is an exciting project, and it pays to go in with a clear picture of how the process works. At Houston Stained Glass, we have guided hundreds of Houston homeowners through their first commission, and we have learned that the best results...
Stained Glass Front Door Styles for Houston: Welcoming Elegance
Your front door is the first thing guests touch and the last thing you see each morning when you leave for the day. In a city as varied as Houston, where a craftsman bungalow in the Heights can sit a few miles from a glass-walled new build in Montrose or...
Stained Glass Energy Efficiency for Houston: Insulation Benefits
Anyone who has spent a July afternoon in Houston knows that the sun here does not ask permission. It pours through every clear pane in the house, and by mid-summer the air conditioner is working overtime to undo the heat that plain glass lets in. When homeowners ask us whether...