| Winter is over, and it's time to replace old windows | | | | less than a perfect finish was acceptable. When I |
| and doors that aren't energy efficient. In any town | | | | started doing this a few years ago, I completely |
| or city, you will see stacks of old window sashes on | | | | refinished all of them. Live and learn. They don't all |
| the curbside, waiting for the bulk trash pickup. Is one | | | | really want to be completely refinished. When a few |
| of those stacks in front of your house? You might | | | | more primitive or rather basic paintings came along, I |
| be thinking something to the effect of ' I'd like to | | | | realized that they, in particular might have looked |
| keep just one, because it's a part of the house that I | | | | better in a frame that wasn't geared toward |
| don't want my children to forget,' | | | | perfection. At that point, I took a few window |
| Well, I have a suggestion for you... | | | | sashes that I had already stripped and sanded, and |
| If you don't really want to start from scratch, you | | | | did nothing more than paint them to use for paintings |
| are welcome to make use of any of the patterns | | | | of wildlife, or more natural, or in some cases, natural |
| you may find on the internet to create a piece of | | | | disaster scenes. |
| artwork, that would eventually hang in your home. | | | | So, in conclusion, I would suggest that you do a little |
| The glass in the window sashes can be cleaned, and | | | | more thinking than I did at first, about the complexity |
| then painted on, to create a very handsome addition | | | | of the painting subject before going through the pain |
| to your home. I'm particularly fond of the sashes that | | | | a getting a perfect finish on it. A moose in the wild at |
| still have the hand blown glass intact, especially if | | | | sunset might look a little bit better if the window |
| they have very old or just plain interesting hardware | | | | you're looking 'through' were from a rustic cabin |
| on them. | | | | versus the window from a nice new estate. |
| The first thing to do, would be to clean up the | | | | In any event, how you recycle your window sashes |
| wooden frame of the window sash. After having | | | | will be your decision, and I wish you the very best of |
| been raised in a family of furniture refinishers, nothing | | | | luck with your efforts! |