Newborn House Restoration

We finally completed one of the neat little projects on the Newborn house today! We installed the restored stained glass windows in three of the gables. Even better, we installed a lighting system to backlight the windows at night. (The picture above left was taken just at dusk. The image at right was taken after dark.)

When we bought the house, the windows had been painted over from the outside. At some point, the owner had hired a painter to spray the entire house white. If it didn’t move out of the way, they painted it white. Also, many of the panes of glass were broken.

Andi contact a stained glass artist from nearby Mansfield. He showed her how to replace the panes and told her where she could buy the supplies. We removed the windows and replaced all of the panes weeks ago. I finally got them painted and installed this weekend.

The house has stained glass in the parlor and bull’s eye windows in the downstairs and upstairs halls. Eventually, we’d like to have stained glass transoms and in a couple of other locations. We may hire the artist from Mansfield, or we may commission the monks from a nearby monastery. Or, more likely, we’ll just do it ourselves.

Stay turned.