The Neverending Saga of the stained glass...

[S Melissa]

BRH - I love the stained glass - but understand why you are thinking about something different. The brilliance of the stained glass might overpower that of the more subtle carvings on the drawer fronts. What I might suggest is that you try and come up with a curvy pattern - similar to that which you have designed with all the colors - but less detailed - simpler, less complex, and use either subtly colored (pale) glass or frosted/opague glass. I think a geometric type crosshatched pattern will be incongruent with the curvy nature of the carvings - where a curvy pattern - simple - with a subtle glass choice might be sympatico with the overall design of the piece. Just thinking outloud!

I should add that you've done such terrific work thus far without our opinions - that I trust that you'll find the perfect match - your eye in impeccible.

[BrooklynRowHouse]

Thanks, Melissa and Angolito. I bounced that design off a couple of cabinetmaker friends last night and they both hated it. I get into this design software and tend to lose the big picture. One of them suggested ditching the glass altogether and using cane panels. That might look interesting for about a week until Trixie gets her claws in it. That dresser is her Murphy bed. The drawers are on slick metal tracks so she hops up on the window sill, pulls open my sock drawer and sleeps in there.

How about this one? I was half-watching an old John Grisham movie, The Chamber, last night. The movie was pretty bleh but there was a scene in a court house in front of a stained glass door. I thought it was kinda classy and understated so I put Tivo on pause and copied it. It needs to be simplified but here's the general idea.

Melissa, I think you're on to something with the curvy idea. This one's maybe a bit too angular.

[BrooklynRowHouse]

One more, slightly more organic. This is a stock design I edited and transposed to fit the dimensions.

[jade mortimer]

egad, your work is perfection, simple perfection...i think a one color piece of beveled glass would nicely complement your design...you could order the glass tomorrow and maybe have it installed the following week!
...jade

[BrooklynRowHouse]

egad, your work is perfection, simple perfection...i think a one color piece of beveled glass would nicely complement your design...you could order the glass tomorrow and maybe have it installed the following week!

I'm on a different mission w/r/t those panels and maybe someone like Sombriel can help. There's a kind of wire glass you often see on formal bookcases, like in law offices. I see it all time on "Law & Order". It's like chicken wire glass except the wire is decorative... usually brass. Anybody know what it's called or, better, where I can get it? If I can find it in a semi-opaque glass I think that would work perfectly.

I'm really not all that talented graphically. Ask any art director I've worked with. It's hard to do a crappy design job with GlassEye.

Edited: I found a picture that's similar to what I mean but the glass needs to be semi-opaque. I'm not interested in featuring my extensive teeshirt collection.

[lavender_bush]

OK, if we are off the first idea I think the third picture works best, with all the detail on the wood I think that would work because it flows and is a softer design.

No chicken wire you want to look at the cabinet not the contents - although for kitchens I love that look

[jade mortimer]

don't know if any of these places can help...i did find something similar to what you are looking for but it's in romania!
i did a search on decorative safety glass....

http://reviews.ebay.com/Brass-and-Bronz ... 0000054796

http://www.precisionglass.com/

http://www.bgglass.com/specialty.htm

...jade

[BrooklynRowHouse]

Thanks, Jade.

A user on houseblogs.net pointed me at a whole bunch of brass and pewter wire options on VanDykes.com, AntiqueHardware.com and (believe it or not) Amazon. I also found it on NexTag, once I figured out the correct keywords:

http://www.nextag.com/decorative-grill/search-html

Stuff ain't cheap. And there's still the "Trixie Factor" (i.e. the cat) so I'd probably have to have glass in front of it.

And if there's not already enough oak in the room, there's this option:

http://www.vandykes.com/product/02023373/

[wletson]

Reading through this, when you threw in the "more organic" design I loved that one. Thought I'd take a look at how it would look in the doors.....

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Softer lines, but I'd definitely go with the leaded glass!

[jade mortimer]

what is this, a magic show or somethin'? what a great way to view the finished product....

my cat's name is triksee.....