I have always thought that peacocks are beautiful creatures.
Whether you see a male peacock proudly displaying his gorgeous tail in the zoo or strutting in someones backyard - the peacock always demands special attention.
Our house is based on the open concept plan. When we built our house we left several areas open cut-outs for later contemplation. I had thought to put an aquarium into one and possibly a leaded glass picture in another - there are so many possibilities thought.
Since the trend has been everything peacocks for the last few years - when I designed the railing for the stairs I added the birds into the design.
Then a few months ago, I decided to paint a peacock on glass instead of creating a leaded glass picture for the 4' x 5' hole. I takes considerably less time to paint on glass than to cut, edge and solder a piece. Also it is less expensive - so if you get sick of it after a while you don't feel sad about taking it down and putting up something different.
One of the few problems that I had was that our walls are made of the sandstone block. I had to design a metal frame to hold the glass and to brace the picture to the wall.
In the end it turned out really nice - and is now a good selling point of the house.
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