I haven’t been very productive lately as I’ve been pretty sick with the current thing that is going around of late, but I have two new projects to work on around my house for 2023. We got a new front door and a new kitchen door and both transoms are significantly larger than the old ones, so I will have to make something new for both areas. I might alter the old one for the kitchen and see how it looks, but I am pretty sure I will make something new for the front door.
The old kitchen transom is stained glass coated with embellished resin. I might set it on another piece of glass and add a border in similar white shade of stained glass to make it fit the new transom, but I haven’t decided for sure yet. I did already cut the clear backer piece of glass for this transom, though. The old front door transom was dichroic and seedy clear glass edged with lead and framed with a zinc frame on the outer edge. The new front door transom will likely feature some dichroic glass and incorporate our house number, but the design is still forming in my head. It will have to be multiple panes of glass as I don’t have any glass that is large enough to cover the full horizontal length of the front transom.
Below is how the old transom looks when just sitting unsupported in the new front door transom window.
