A $1.00 "Fancy" stained glass/dinner plate window for your tiny house, shed, shack, or fort...
I shot another video today, a mini-tutorial on building/making shed, shack, cabin, and even house windows from yard sale, dump-picked, or bargain-store, glass plates. I've made a few of these before, and actually did a demo with this very plate while speaking at M.I.T, and brought the same plate out to NYC when I was asked to speak at Jay Shafer's Tiny Tumbleweed House Company's workshop in Manhattan. Its not brain surgery, but the video will be coming at some point. Total cost for this window- approx. $1.00 (well, plus 8 recycled screws, and a thin bead of caulk or so. The wood trim was free/salvaged).
The window, "roughed in" (not painted/sanded). I made AND filmed this project (another idea/concept from my "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks" book (link below)) in a mere 50 minutes tonight- most of the time was spent on setting, and re-setting the camera and watching playbacks.
Not painted, nor touched-up yet, the newly cut window now makes the once bland and featureless door of "The Gypsy Junker" a little more interesting. The door always was the one thing I thought was boring in terms of the cabin's appearance.
The same method can be used with unrolled, soda bottle plastic (slit the bottle vertically, and unroll it into a sheet after cutting the "funnel end" and "ass end" off of it). In the past, when building chicken coops for people, I've done this several times. I works well and costs just about nothing.
SPEAKING OF WHICH.... our contest for several books on tiny housing is still running until Dec 10th....be sure to visit the "Tiny Yellow House and Relaxshacks.com" facebook open group for details/to jump in for your chance to win $100 in tiny home/architectural reading.
And for MORE on junk-built windows....if you missed it...
