Decorating with glass: infinite possibilities throughout your home

If you think of glass, specifically art glass, as something only for windows, lamps and coffee tables, think again.

Sheri Law Art Glass, located in the Chicago suburb of Homer Glen, can do anything with glass. Law has been in business since 1980 and you can tell she knows her craft. Her work is magnificent and her creativity knows no bounds. Do I sound like a fan? Well, I am and I'll tell you why.

If you read this blog, you know that I asked Law to create privacy in a bathroom window and then, later, add some pizazz to a window on a stair landing. So impressed were we with her work that we called on her again for two more windows...decorating a front bedroom window and adding some privacy to the lower half of another bedroom window. (I may write more on that later.)

Now, reading this, you might get the impression that Law does just stained glass for windows, but that's not the case. In fact, her world of expertise is art glass; the term "stained glass" is too limiting for what she does. My taste runs more traditional, so I opt for more traditional stained glass applications, but if your taste runs more contemporary, modern or transitional, she has dozens more applications that will amaze you.

Applications for Law’s art glass are limited only by your imagination. She has done everything from glass doors including theater, pantry, cabinet, refrigerator and shower doors to bar mirrors, tabletops and countertops, backsplashes, wall art, fireplace art and much more. 

Her showroom and her home above it are works of art and while there, you can see exactly what she can do, along with her talented staff, with a simple piece of glass.

Here are some photos of her own home that she shared with me.

Here's her bathroom. Notice the edged swirl on the mirror. The countertops are carved and back painted. The shower door is a sliding glass barn door. Inside the shower is a panel of dimensional fused glass. It is all so elegant.

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Law's kitchen is a work of art. We'll start at the left of the photo and move to the right. First, you see carved and backpainted metallic leaf doors (one on either side of the stove, which we'll talk about later); these doors hide the refrigerator. On the right side of the photo, those gray glass doors are actually carved and backpainted glass doors that hide her pantry. The island overhang is a sheet of glass on top of wood that has a backpainted gray border to match the pantry doors.

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 Here's the kitchen from another angle.

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Look at the backsplash above her stove. She used dimensional fused glass to get this look. Instead of a simple tile backsplash, hers is a work of art that becomes the focal point of her kitchen.

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And that's just the beginning! Her dining room floor is glass as is her coffee table and fireplace mantle. Her windows feature art glass and the list goes on and on.

To fully appreciate it all, you just have to pay Sheri Law a visit at her Homer Glen, Ill. showroom. If you decide to pursue a project, you'll sit down in her studio and start designing your masterpiece with Law.

It's a fun process and you won't be disappointed.