We reckon this glass splashback has taken the award for the longest time spent under a bed waiting for the kitchen to be completed! We made it in 2013, and this summer we received a lovely picture from our client with it finally in it’s place!
Looks lovely though, doesn’t it? I think our customer thinks it was worth waiting for.. 🙂
We are used to lovely reactions to our glass splashbacks when we install, but this week might have won the prize… a big fat smacker of a kiss!
Interestingly though, it wasn’t the only “reaction”, as that’s also what the splashbacks are.. the effects are all due to different glasses reacting both with each other and the pure silver foil used (in the centre of the “wave” as well as a few “wisps”). Although you can pick up dark greens, browns and yellows, none of the colours were in fact used, but they have been created by the different minerals and metals in the different elements reacting with each other. This effect is both expected, and unpredictable at the same time, making it a choice for the brave or adventurous customer !
This design has been one of Liz’s favourites for a while, but it’s only this week that she has had a chance to create one for a customer.. so this week has been a good week!
Following our amazingly successful Crowdfunder Campaign where we raised 60% MORE than our target, we are now to be found in our awesome new workshops on the Rose Mills Industrial Estate, Hort Bridge Ilminster.
This is great news for us as it now means we are able to offer a full range of courses and workshops, as well as having a separate area well away from the dust of the workshop to display splashback samples and a range of art glass Liz designs and makes in between splashback commissions.
We are also able to hire out our kiln, cold working equipment and workbench space to other glass artists subject to availability.
It will be a few more weeks before we are fully up and running and open generally to the public, but in the meantime, please feel free to contact us to make an appointment to view.
Our splashbacks adorn some lovely (and quirky!) kitchens.. today’s install was in a beautiful 17th century house near Stourbridge (which is apt, given Stourbridge’s connection with glass through it’s history!). Blakelands is used as a wedding venue.. so if you’re getting married, I can highly recommend it (and pop into the kitchen while you’re there!)
Blakelands Country House boats a beautiful garden, and the owner wanted to bring the naturalistic feel and some of her favourite plants into the kitchen.. so in came red and pink opium poppies, lavender, cow parsley, foxgloves, daisies, and cornflowers… but most importantly, forget-me-nots… in memory of her beloved sister.
I hope we did her proud.
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Doing more than a little happy dance here at Glassification HQ, having just been told we have been awarded a “Best in Houzz” for Customer Service!
Glassification was chosen by the more than 25 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz, community from among more than 15,000 active home building, renovation and design industry professionals, so it really is a big gig! And it’s particularly pleasing to be recognised for something we hold very dear, customer service is our No 1 priority! So, it seems we’re getting that right doesn’t it?
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Things are afoot in the Glassification workshop as we get ready to welcome two new members of the team.. (but more about them later!) The first thing we needed to do was make it easy for them out on the road, with a set of sample boards to show potential customers (independent kitchen and bath retailers in the first instance!).
Well, one thing lead to another, and we decided to rationalise our stock designs, creating ranges in different colour ways. So here’s a sneak preview as the samples went into the kiln of Urban Stripe, in Yellow / Grey, Orange / Grey and Orange / Ivory (to add to the Red / Grey we currently have.
Then Shards in Blue and Green, and in the corner one of the samples in Plum & Blue of the Field of Flowers Range (which will be our largest range)
Tomorrow I’ll be working on the Tree of Life series, and 3 new colours in the Spring Zest series, (which will probably have to find a new name!)
Exciting times!!
Our latest commissioned splashback installed in Somerset. Kitchen by Harvey & Wade Taunton.
Although Christmas production is full on in the Glassification workshop (we’re referring to it as Santa’s Workshop, Ilton Branch!) we still managed to fit in an installation of a splashback for our customer in Warwickshire.. once the kitchen installers are finished we hope to pop up again and get a good photo of the whole room in all it’s magnificence!
So a great time was had at Grand Designs, sharing a stand with Austin Matthew Design (a daily run kitchen studio near Stratford) and Aga. And our splash back display got a lot of positive attention!
They are now up for sale at a bargain price of just £200 a panel. We can trim them down slightly if required (currently approximately 975 wide x 600 mm at highest point) or even make more panels to match if you have a bigger space. If you’re interested, contact us NOW before it’s too late!
