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Glass Adds Style to Home

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Glass Adds Style to Home

Glass Adds Style to Home

If you’re intent on adding a modern touch to your home, there’s no better material to work with than glass. It delivers a minimalist touch while retaining its oh-so-practical nature. Glass is insanely versatile, and it’s rarely impractical in the modern space.

Glass works so well precisely because it’s so minimal. There’s just something irresistible about being able to see through a space. Glass allows natural light to travel, so it’s definitely high on the list of materials for small spaces, and spaces that have limited access to natural lighting.

Glass comes in a variety of thicknesses, which means it can be used for more than just windows. Glass walls, staircases, floors and countertops can all find a place in the modern home.

If you want to go glass on a staircase, you’ll need to consult with architects, fabricators and contractors that have specific experience with creating glass staircases. While they seem light and airy, there’s a bevy of local code requirements for staircases (made from any material), and you’ll need to plan accordingly for railings and other required safety measures.

Glass countertops are all the rage, and can be made in a number of ways. Thick glass can be used as a counter surface. The advantage of going with straight glass is that you can light it and paint it to your liking. Glass can also be bound with epoxy or cement to make a composite countertop. Composites are strong and can add a delightful visual component to your counters.

You can also use glass as a backsplash or wall covering. Glass and glass tiles are extremely popular right now, and can give your kitchen or bathroom a unique appearance. When used as a wall covering, glass is relatively easy to work with, and can be decorated easily.

Glassprimer™ glass paint is a specialized glass coating that bonds permanently to glass surfaces. GlassPrimer also makes a glass surface molecular activator that is designed to work with UV-inkjet glass printing processes. For more information about Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit the rest of our site. If you’d like to purchase Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit our online store

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Interior glass doors

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Interior glass doors

Interior glass doors

If you want to create a contemporary look for your home, consider the addition of interior glass doors in your home. Interior glass doors are a significant decorating trend that can increase the beauty and value of your home using sustainable, ecologically friendly and responsible materials.

Why interior glass doors make sense

For some people, decorating is about more than expressing style. Increasingly, people are taking the ecological impact of their lifestyles into account when decorating their homes. The use of renewable, sustainable and ecologically friendly materials is a serious consideration, so glass is high on the list of materials welcome in this approach to decorating.

Glass is infinitely renewable. As an added bonus, the recycling process for glass takes less energy than the process for producing glass from scratch. By incorporating different materials, glassmakers can create different desirable characteristics for the resulting glass, including textures, tints and varying degrees of strength.

Glass doors are commonly used in offices and retail spaces, but they’ve only recently made their grand return to residential decorating. Prior to the Great Depression, glass was one of the materials commonly used in residential decorating. The poor economy of the 1930’s followed by material shortages in the 1940’s effectively reduced the use of glass in residential decorating in favor of simpler, more easily mass-produced materials.

From an economic standpoint, glass is common and readily available, and the materials used in glass production are simple and abundant. The float glass process wasn’t perfected until the 1950’s, but glass has been used extensively in the US for hundreds of years. In fact, the first glass factory was built in what is now the United States in 1608! Glass was a staple in certain types of furniture, including cupboards and cabinets, but whether for practical or preferential reasons, the use glass virtually disappeared in interior design in the US in the first half of the 20th century.

Fortunately today it’s making a resurgence, and in a big way! There have never been more options for incorporating glass into residential spaces, starting with interior glass doors. Interior glass doors can be left as-is, or they can be augmented with special coatings like Glassprimer™ glass paint. Glassprimer™ glass paint is durable, easy to apply and produces excellent results. Glassprimer™ glass paint creates a permanent bond with the glass, and offers exceptional UV resistance. This allows the penetration of light, while reducing the amount of heat generated by UV-light. In addition, Glassprimer™ glass paint can be used to enhance privacy as a cost-effective substitute for acid-etched frosted glass.

If you’d like more information about applying Glassprimer™ glass paint to interior glass doors, please check out the rest of our site. If you’d like to purchase Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit our online store.

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