Glass Block For Kitchen Bars, Windows, Walls & Backsplashes

If you're looking to concentrate the benefits of light transmission, style, durability, and ease of cleaning in your new home or kitchen remodeling scheme then glass block is the material for you. This unique building stock provides the dual benefit of structural stability and ornamental beauty. Below you'll find 5 ideas to transform an lowly kitchen into an marvelous space.

Idea 1 - Kitchen Bar - The central place where company and family hangs out is around the island or kitchen bar while the meals are being prepared. Let's face it - a standard laminate top with basic wood cabinetry underneath is just not scoring high on the cool scale anymore! If you want color, interest, and functionality a glass block kitchen bar can be used in conjunction with a granite countertop. These bars are ordinarily built 40" high and the counter is set on top of the glass blocks. The bar can be built in either a rounded, angular, or rectangular originate (there are radius blocks, angled blocks, and projection blocks to perform this objective). If you no ifs ands or buts want the glass to stand out think either backlighting the bar wall or using either vibrant or muted colored glass blocks (a scheme in Minneapolis Minnesota is planning this type of scheme right now).

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Idea 2 - Half Wall Room Separator - In many split level homes like you see in the Midwestern United States there is a railing at the end of the kitchen to safely detach the kitchen from the family room that is 5 to 6 steps below. A scheme in Cleveland Ohio recently used a block separator wall to safely update this railing area. The wall was built 32" high by 10 feet long and used ended end and double ended blocks. It was safely tied in with anchors at the side wall (jamb) with panel reinforcing throughout the mortar joints - creating a modernized, safe, and approved wall in a highly visible area of the home.

Idea 3 - Operable Casement Kitchen Window - If you need privacy, air flow, and a unique style all in one kitchen window think an operable acrylic block window. A home in Columbus Ohio was built in a subdivision where the homes are only 12 feet apart and the kitchen window is on the side facing the neighbor's windows (not the best situation when you've been laboring around the house and you don't look your best). Using an operable casement acrylic block window the owner can now get air through the window and the privacy they desire. The vinyl framed block window also meets the power Star ratings required for this development as well.

Idea 4 - Block Up A Hard To Clean Area Behind the Stove -Have you ever used wall paper behind a stove only to find it splattered and stained from your meals overheating from your cook top? A clarification to add style and ease the cleaning of these hard to get to areas is with glass tiles or glass blocks. A scheme near Boston Massachusetts built a colored block wall behind a pot bellied stove to disagreement the old stove with the new modern styled block. This wall also had the benefit of transferring light through this interior wall to an adjoining bathroom as well.

Idea 5 - Kitchen backsplashes - The backsplash underneath your kitchen cabinets does not have to be boring anymore. If you'd like to move light in from the surface and add style with an easy to clean material think using a vinyl framed glass block window system either 8" or 16" ended height in your backsplash. The blocks can be provided in clear glass, colored glass or even ornamental patterned blocks (there are modern designed blocks, fruit patterns, and over 150 other standard and limitless practice blocks as well). In many cases the blocks can add light and sacrifice the cost versus using ornamental glass tiles in a backsplash.

This is a just a short list of the ways glass blocks can add style, interest, and practical benefits to your next kitchen bar, window, wall, or backsplash project.

Glass Block For Kitchen Bars, Windows, Walls & Backsplashes

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