Leadlight Window
We decided that a beautiful finish to the front of the house would be a gorgeous window above the front door, fancily called a 'transom window'. Similar houses showed that a leadlight design would be appropriate for the period of the house. Leadlights tend to be unique to each building, so we needed to find someone who could help us to both design the window and to make it. We found Carrie Westcott at Arcadia Leadlight who was absolutely amazing to work with. The process had 4 steps: Creating a design Drawing up the design Crafting the window Fitting the window Creating a design We had decided that somewhere on the front of the house we wanted to show the year the house was made. This is usually on a parapet, but we are sadly lacking in parapets, so we decided that the leadlight could feature 1888 as the main design. It was also a good way to be able to avoid those horrific kookaburra and gumtree designs that Australiana enthusiasts seem to treasure...