Who collects colored glass besides me?

[Nyboy]

Powder room window next to front door. Did not want shade or curtains. Found this at flea market works prefect. love the colors

 

[Nyboy]

Yard sale find $6 door to a cabinet must have been in Bar. Was covered in nicotine thought glass was brown,started cleaning was suprized when blue appeared

 

[Nyboy]

Good thing I love not sure I would do again. Found old pair stain glass windows cheap in shop. Then cost thousands to take apart restore then add to 2 gables. Made my contractor tear up because of them.when having a party I turn on attic lights windows glow.!!

 

[Nyboy]

While not colored glass I also collect spode /copeland in Greek pattern and paintings by Hal Robinson. His work the past year has sky rocketed now much more then I can afford.

 

[Carol Dee]

@Nyboy the floor tiles are ceramic. here's a picture of the kitchen floor just finished and wiped down. My tile man asked if I wanted a contrasting grout, I asked for one the closest he had to dirt .
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Most of the walls in the old part of the house are lath and plaster, they were in bad shape when we moved in. Lots of gouges and cracks, the quick fix and it has worked so far was I filled the holes and taped the cracks, then a thin coat of Spackle over the lot. I rolled a rough texture into the Spackle, hides a multitude of sins .

All the walls in the pictures are painted an off white grey, the kitchen cupboards one shade darker. Even the fireplace is painted the same color as the walls, it used to be pink roman tile which I hated with a passion, same with the paneled wall behind the fireplace. We have 9 ft. ceilings in the old part of the house, the previous owner had the fireplace put in and had then paneled that wall, not only did I intensely dislike the color, they were 8ft. panels with a 1 ft. piece crudely added at the bottom.
One night after listening to my whining about how much I hated them hubby made the mistake of telling me that the panels would come off quite easily when the time comes, much to his and DS#2's shock 10 minutes later they were off, I managed to get my fingers behind one and ripped it off, he was right they were just tacked on. What was behind them was a nightmare but I soon fixed that with my handy dany bucket of Spackle. We don't have a fancy place and the floors still slope, but we call it home.

Back to colored glass, cobalt blue in particular. I found these pictures on the internet when looking for ideas for a bottle tree. There's some very talented people out there
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Food for thought.


Annette

This popped up in the photos at top of page. I sure wish I had gotten the DIRT color grout. Grrr. This antique white is impossible to keep clean.

 

[valley ranch]

scratch it out ~ don't have to get it all ~ just deep enough to re grout ~ vacuum it up ~ then you can have a mud pie party one day ~ Ezee peezee ```

 

[valley ranch]

Hi Carol ~ good to meet you so quickly on line ```


Richard

 

[Carol Dee]

Hi Carol ~ good to meet you so quickly on line ```


Richard

Ummm, LOL, I joined TEG in 2011. A reg. here.

 

[baymule]

Reading this thread again......it makes me smile with memories of Alex and his love of pretty things. Then I wonder who will get his collections and will they love them as much as he did. I sure miss you Alex.

 

[Carol Dee]

Reading this thread again......it makes me smile with memories of Alex and his love of pretty things. Then I wonder who will get his collections and will they love them as much as he did. I sure miss you Alex.

Me too, we all do.