Greene & Greene Inspired Wall Sconce

Very nice!

Looks like one from the Gamble House, one of the Greene brothers masterpieces.

-- Dean

Nicely done it looks superb .

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Thanks! I was definitely inspired by the Gamble House sconces. I basically sat down with a bunch of G&G books a couple weeks ago and looked at every pic I could find of their lights and let my imagination go from there. Nothing to fancy… but a surprisingly complex project… at least for me. Carving the top out of a solid block was probably the bigest challenge.

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Great job! I agree, it’s gonna look even better when it darkens a bit.

-- Steve, Pennsylvania

Yea that’s always the issue working with cherry. I love the wood but you’ve got to wait a year or two. Also means if you are doing a whole room you’ve got to stay on schedule or it ends up looking funky for a while :D

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Great looking sconce. Did you do the stained glass, too?

-- If the world was a logical place, men would be the ones who ride horses sidesaddle.

I did do the glass. But in full disclosure….

it’s not real stained glass in the traditional sense, kind of. The cream color is a piece of real stained glass I bought. I wasn’t quite up for learning to do all the foiling and leading right now (to many projects). So I painted the glass with gel paints designed for such things, called gallery glass.

It wont fool someone who knows stained glass, but it looks quite nice. In our last house we had a bunch of windows with full murals someone had painted with the stuff. They really looked great!

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Wow I really like it, good job

-- Don, Royersford, PA

Very nice, well done indeed

-- Back home. Fernando

Very nice. Thanks for sharing !

-- Francois Vigneron, Gif-sur-Yvette, France & Altadena, CA

Nice looking job

-- Lizardhead---Yeah but it's a dry heat--Tempe, Az

Finally finished the wiring & lighting for my wall sconce and did a blog writeup. http://digitalwoodworker.com/2012/04/18/wall-sconce-doorbell-cover/

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that is cool!! I have been looking to do a doorbell cove for our hall, I never even thought of putting a light in it, nice job!

-- I was going for that distressed look

Very nicely done—I particularly like the top cloud lift, great detail.

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