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Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

New Year

14′ diamater dome frame in progress for a private Toronto residence.

We hope everyone had a safe and great holiday and our best wishes for the New Year!

Pocket change…

Friday, December 11th, 2009

These lovely pocket door panels (in production and designed by our shop manager Kathryn) are a lovely retrofit for a pair of existing doors for our clients renovation. These are compliment a suite of 4 windows total all designed along the same theme.calderone

Valleymede Homes dome project:

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Here’s Robin (he’s 6′3) leaning over a new frame for a 16′ diameter dome going into a 25,000 sq. ft. house under construction here in Toronto. We’ll add more pics as the project developes!

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Sunny Success!

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Our 10′ diameter dome installation in Los Angeles went flawlessly. Our crate arrived at the owners home within a week and without a scratch! The install took only 1 day to complete and looks stunning. The owners, Matt and Leigh along with the builder Eddy Kesky were great hosts and were thrilled with the results.

We also took time to site visit and measure our next job there for Harbour Bay Homes.  It’s a beautiful 7,000 sq. ft. manse in Newport Beach.

After our install we took some meetings about potential new projects in Bel Air and Beverley Hills.  We were given a tour by a local builder of their  $42M true American Beaux-Arts residential masterpiece on Sunset Blvd.

Can’t wait to return in January when the weather here gets really bad!10 foot leaded stained glass dome Seal Beach California

Big week at Solarium!!!

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

We’ve added another 5 new projects to our list of about 30+ ongoing custom leaded glass dome work orders!

We are now delivering and installing our domes to London,  Los Angeles,  New Jersey and of course right here in Toronto. Things are looking good for a huge residential dome in Amman Jordan as well, we’ll keep you posted.

A work in progress…

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Here’s a quick pic of a dome we’ve been working on. The view is from the shop floor looking upwards.looking upward throuhg the dome.

Hello to Harbour Bay Homes in L.A. CA.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

This week we begin the draftwork on another new project in Los Angeles, CA. We’re designing a 10′ diameter dome that will accomodate a chandelier lift for a private residence in Seal Beach.

Welcome back Robbie!

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Robbie, our master frame builder,  is back from his European bike racing tour. He just placed 2nd this weekend in a duathlon outside of Toronto, congrats! If he could build frames as fast as he races, we’d get caught up!

Across the Pond…

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We’ve recently been contracted by Alkyme Properties in London England to fit a 6′ diamter dome into a custom home they’re building. We’ll also be supplying 2 leaded glass window panels for privacy (read in an Englich accent: priv’-acy) in the master loo. Can’t wait to see Trafalger Square!

T.O. to TN to PA to T.O.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We’ve just returned to Toronto from installations in Nashville, Tennessee and Malvern, Pennsylvania. We designed and built a 9′ x 14′ classic diamond pattern flat lense for a home in Nashville complete with integrated LED downlights and more than 140 running feet of LED backlighting!

In Penn. we installed a lovely 7′x 4′  Victorian oval dome with 3 matching leaded glass panels in the family room.