Commissions: A brief guide to the commissioning process.
Have you ever thought how lovely it would be to have a piece of original stained glass designed specifically for you? Maybe you can imagine it enhancing your home, office or place of work? Or have you a design of your own that you would like to see made up in glass? It is really not that difficult to , and probably less expensive than you think.
If we were considering a large architectural project and working with an architect rather than directly with a client, we would need to make site visits and take photographs, and that would all add to the cost. We have a formal contract, a legal document, for the really large jobs. However, for a small or medium sized project this is not usually necessary.
Of course, it’s more fun all round if you live close enough to visit us and discuss what you want face to face, but this is not always possible. In that case ordering a window, panel or lampshade can all be done by email and by letter. (I’m not clever enough to send you drawings by email!)
We would just need the following information:
- Name, address and phone number, obviously, and email.
- A brief description of the proposed work, is it an internal or external window, door or whatever? Which way will it face? We could use stronger colours in a south-facing, sunny window, for instance, without cutting down the ambient light too much. Photos of the place where the glass is to go are always useful. A picture really can be better than a thousand words!
- Any ideas you have regarding design and colour. If you have no idea, let us know what you don’t like! Pictures from magazines, books or photos of the kind of styles or colours you like are useful, even if they are not of glass. We would never copy another glass designer’s work anyway! But we can be inspired by textiles, greeting cards, tiles, in fact almost anything! Or you can just leave us to originate a design.
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