Restorations

A lot of Toronto’s windows need rebuilding, because stained glass windows have a limited life span. The glass is forever. The metal is trash.

I’m not formally trained. I taught myself. There are things I can do, and things I can’t. My main task is rebuilding antique windows. In the course of that task, I clean them back to sparkling.

Often I receive an old external window, break it down, clean it, and rebuild it as an inside panel, to sit behind a modern window. To do that, it may need to be re-sized, or even re-coloured. Sometimes the new owner does not like the old colours, and that’s OK. The point is for the essence of the window to be saved.

Here are some of the jobs I’ve been doing.