This week we finished installing these panels into a custom wooden frame fitted to a stairwell window. The two large central window panels were salvaged from a skip by a builder 20 years ago, during renovation work at an Aberdeen school. We stripped them out, resized the borders and remade the panels. With the addition of some newly designed simple borders, the windows make a fantastic feature on the stairway.
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This doorway had a significant buckle, despite being re-leaded previously. We removed the panel to the workshop, and soaked it for several days to loosen the cement, before dismantling, making good the damaged sections and re-leading.
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Work started today on the restoration of the stained glass windows in the Royal Waiting Room, Ballater Railway Station. The first phase of the project involves the removal and archiving of the existing glass.
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Morning Glass Designs recently completed the stained glass restoration and installation of 6 new windows at Elim Pentecostal Church. The Lottery funded repairs involved the cleaning and renovation of the circular and lancets at the front of the church, the construction of 13 new lancets at the rear and the restoration of the zinc-framed tracery panels at the head of the lancets.
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Work is slowly starting to pick up, as the days lengthen and the prospect of outside repairs is less daunting. We have been fairly steady in the studio over the winter, working on a number of smaller repairs and restoration projects.
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