Dress up Your French Doors with Glass

The sophisticated design, the architectural beauty, the impressive wonder: French doors take any home from plain to classy instantaneously. Not only that, but these doors also allow a tremendous amount of light to flow in, as they often feature large glass panels.

Have you always dreamed of having gorgeous French doors in your entryway, bedroom, bathroom, or even living room? Why keep dreaming? At CGD Glass Countertops, our decorative glass doors can be customized to your liking. That means we can work together to create the French doors you’ve always wanted.

Need some ideas that speak to the versatility of glass French doors? Here’s a great list to get you started.

Sliding Glass French Doors

Create an open-air office with sliding glass French doors. Whether you prefer a black or white doorframe, paneled glass will establish a comfortable atmosphere that will inspire you to work any day.

If you’re not quite feeling this setup for a home office, you could always order sliding doors in a bathroom. Our frosted and textured glass at CGD means privacy is a top priority.

Lastly, you can even get sliding doors for the kitchen. In this case, you may want single large glass panels instead of a tiled look. These doors keep noises and smells out.

Decorative Glass French Doors

If you’re the type who likes to shake things up no matter where you go, decorative glass French doors are for you. With our myriad of glass customization services available at CGD, we’re certain we can design your French doors to be one-of-a-kind, artistic masterpieces.

Take a look at our website and browse our options, including our glass texture shapes and designs. If you’d like to take your French doors to the next level, we can even backpaint them. This adds a healthy dose of color to your living room, entertainment room, or bedroom.

Floor-to-Ceiling Glass French Doors

Only recommended for the brave, floor-to-ceiling glass French doors are very impactful. You’ll wow friends, family, and neighbors whenever they come to visit. These doors have very thin frames and often slide over one another via tracks installed near the ceiling and the floor.

If you have rooms with tall ceilings, such as a living room or home office, these doors are a great fit.

Simple Wood and Glass French Doors

Of course, if you’re not a fan of excessive additions, you may like a pair of painted wood and glass French doors. Painting these white really brings out the luxury and loveliness of your French doors.

Arched Glass French Doors

We definitely saved the best for last here. Ideal for a bedroom or home office, arched glass French doors will make you feel like you’re living in a chateau every single day. These look stunning in the bathroom as well.

Now that you see how many options you have with glass French doors, it’s time to start planning yours today. Contact us online at CGD Glass Countertops and we’ll work on getting you a quote. We look forward to hearing from you.

Start off the New Year Right with a Beautiful Glass Kitchen Island

Over the past two months of the holiday season, you probably spent quite a lot of time getting reacquainted with your kitchen. Between basting turkeys, baking cookies, prepping sides, and making other meals, you’ve been in the kitchen almost more than any other room in the house.

While of course all the hustle and bustle of holiday cooking can be stressful on anyone, don’t you wish there was an easier way to prepare food during the holidays and any other time of the year? There is: with a kitchen island.

Here at CGD Glass Countertops, our kitchen islands are designed to be gorgeous and functional. You get all the beauty of glass that our customers love with the lasting durability of each glass product we custom-design.

For instance, if you already have countertops from us, we can match these to your kitchen island. If you want your kitchen island to stand out and be its own unique element, we can do that as well.

Here are some of the options you get to choose for your customized kitchen island:

  • The glass thickness and measurements
  • The glass type, including Ultra Clear (translucent glass base) or Aqua Clear (pale blue glass base)
  • The glass texture, such as Linear, Pixels, Desert, Avalanche, Galaxy, Flow, Stream, Sandstorm, and Melting Ice, with some available with Ultra Clear or Semi-Frosted textures
  • The edge work, including Fire Polished, Satin, Flat Polished, Textured, or Brushed Satin
  • The surface treatment, with options like Stone Wash, White Onyx, and Green Onyx
  • Backpainting colors (which are optional), such as Sky Blue, Multicolored, Copper Light, Bronze Semi-Frost, Rusty Gold, Charcoal Gray, and Jet Blue Metallic
  • Substrates, which are also optional
  • LED lights, including single-color lights or multicolored lights

Imagine preparing a big meal with your kitchen island designed according to all the options above. You can even get it backlit so your kitchen glows at night.

Of course, January has just started, which means you may be a little reticent to spend money right now. We get it. If you’re still on the fence about getting a kitchen island, we hope these reasons will convince you:

  • Glass kitchen islands are easy to clean, especially when you order one from CGD Glass Countertops. You just need soap, water, and a soft cloth for wiping down the island.
  • Since our glass is such high-quality, it comes free of crevices where food debris and bacteria can hide. That makes your kitchen island a hygienic surface in which to prepare food.
  • A kitchen island gives you more counter space, which is especially handy if you have many people in the kitchen at once or you’re making a big meal.
  • By getting a glass kitchen island installed in your home, you can increase the curb appeal of your property.

Are you convinced now? We hope so. If you want to get started designing and planning your dream kitchen island today, our staff at CGD Glass Countertops is ready. Contact us online and we’ll work on putting together a quote.

Your Holiday Gift to Yourself? A Kitchen with Upgraded Glass Features

You’ve got your spouse, your parents, your children, your friends, a few coworkers, and your aunt and uncle who are coming up from out-of-state for the holidays. Is there anyone else you forgot to get a gift for?

As a matter of fact, there is. What about yourself?

Yes, that’s right, you should treat yourself to something nice for the holidays, too. A kitchen with upgraded glass features makes the perfect gift that not only you can enjoy, but the whole family as well.

You’ve probably always wanted to remodel your kitchen, but you just can’t allocate the funds. With a few upgraded features, you’ll have what looks like a brand-new kitchen for less!

Not sure where and what to shop for? Here at CGD Glass Countertops in Toronto, we specialize in all things glass. Our pieces are customizable so you’re always happy with your result. Here are some of the kitchen items we specialize in.

Sinks

Whether for the bathroom or kitchen, our glass sinks are utterly gorgeous. The sleek, textured glass in customizable colors will make your kitchen one of your new favorite places to be. We also make vanities, which are a bathroom essential.

Backsplashes

If you don’t have a backsplash currently installed in your kitchen, you’re going to wonder what you’ve been missing. Backsplashes protect juices, liquids, food particles, and other cooking messes from splashing up on your wall and staining it.

You’ll be impressed with the looks, too. When you order your backsplash from CGD, you can customize it any way you want, including the shape, size, and color(s). It’s your kitchen, so have your way.

Countertops

Impress friends and family this holiday season with stunning, sleek glass countertops. With different glass thicknesses available, as well as various textures, edge details, and colors, you can guarantee your glass countertop is a one-of-a-kind home addition. You can even potentially get LED lighting installed so your kitchen glows!

Tabletops

Wooden tabletops are so boring. Upgrade with a glass tabletop that makes cleaning up post-food messes a breeze. Just grab a soft cloth and wet it and most stains, sticky spots, crumbs, and messes are gone. That’s it. There’s no special (and expensive) cleaners. Just wipe and you’re done.

Kitchen Islands

Kitchens are often bustling places, especially if you have family staying over. You might have up to three people in the kitchen at once jockeying for position. Bumping elbows with relatives is no fun, especially if it’s before you’ve had your morning coffee.

A kitchen island provides another food prep space away from all the action. These islands are trendy and really structure your kitchen. You can choose to match your kitchen island to your countertop or you can go a totally different route. It’s completely up to you.

If you’re ready to treat yourself this holiday season, give us a call at CGD Glass Countertops at 416-398-9733. You can also reach us through an online form on our website or you can just send us an email at info@cgdglass.com.  

How Glass Partitions Can Save Your Sanity This Holiday

If you’re like a lot of families, you may have in-laws, cousins, aunts, and uncles coming over to spend the holidays together. Whether due to your house’s size or proximity, everyone is going to be congregating at your place.

You may have one guest bedroom, but it’s certainly not enough to hold all this extra family. What do you do? You’ll have to get creative about sleeping accommodations, of course.

Privacy is also an issue during this extended stay. You only have so many bedrooms and bathrooms. It seems like everywhere you turn, there’s somebody around when you really just want a moment alone.

Glass partitions from CGD Glass Countertops are just what you need this holiday season. These will create more space, provide privacy, and contain your extra family members.

Here’s how.

 

Use Partitions to Separate One Room into Two

If bedroom space is limited, you may have guests sleeping all over the place, like on the couch and the floor. Give everyone a sense of their own space with a glass partition in the middle of a spare bedroom. This way, family members can go through their own routines (whether that’s staying up late or getting up very early) without interrupting your other guests.

Close Off Your Home Office with a Partition

It’s important to spend time with family during the holidays, but you still have to get some work done, too. If you have a lot of kids or other needy relatives competing for your time, keep your office space private with a glass partition.

If you don’t have an office door, or if your home office is in a corner of the room, this will really let people know you mean business.

Keep the Kitchen Prep Productive Via a Partition

If you have a large kitchen and no kitchen island, you can easily situate a glass partition in this room as well. You might want to split up the space between the countertop and the oven and then form a type of cooking assembly line.

For instance, one family member might make cookie dough, pass this to you, and then you put the cookies in the oven. This prevents too many people from bumping elbows during cooking, which would frustrate anyone.

Create a Separate Dressing Space with a Partition

With so many people staying over, privacy becomes an issue. Glass partitions around the house allow your family members to get changed and do other private routines easily without the risk of being seen.

Glass partitions are incredibly versatile, as you can see. Not only that, but these are stunningly beautiful, too. They make a great addition around the house beyond the holidays. Whether you want to create drama and use the partition for decoration or you just need some privacy, these are a must-have.

To get started ordering your glass partition today (customizable according to your specifications), contact us at CGD Glass Countertops. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

How a Glass Countertop Will Make Your Thanksgiving Cooking Prep Fast and Easy

Although it passed in Canada, Americans are already preparing for their Thanksgiving. It’s the unofficial start of the holiday season, and, if you’re having extended family over, it can be a very stressful day.

After all, you’re going to spend most of your time in the kitchen, cooking and prepping food for the big feast. There’s the bird itself as well as countless side dishes like stuffing, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Oh, and who can forget the pumpkin pie and assortment of desserts?

If it’s Thanksgiving preparations—not the tryptophan—that leave you drained by the end of Turkey Day, it’s time to rest easy. With a sleek new glass countertop from CGD Glass Countertops, you’ll find it’s so much simpler to make Thanksgiving happen.

Curious how? Allow us to explain.

No Risk of Spreading Bacteria

Raw turkey isn’t exactly sanitary. You’re probably in the habit of washing your hands as much as you can while handling the bird, which is good. What about all the countertop surfaces the uncooked turkey sat on, though?

With a wooden countertop, the woodgrains wear down over time from cutting, dicing, and other food prep. Small crevices form in the woodgrain, so if you just give your wooden countertop a cursory wipe-down, you’re probably not cleaning all the bacteria off the surface like you thought you were.  

Like most uncooked poultry, there’s a risk of contracting salmonella if you’re not careful.

With a glass countertop, especially from CGD, you don’t have to worry about spreading bacteria. Your glass countertop will be a smooth, flat surface with no tiny crevices for bacteria to hide.

Stains, Spills, and Sticky Spots Wipe up Easy

When you’re cooking three or four things at once, your kitchen isn’t exactly at its tidiest. That’s okay; it happens, especially around the holidays. That said, the longer those stains, spills, and sticky spots sit on a wooden countertop, the worse the damage becomes.

Depending on the size of the liquid spill we’re talking about here, warping becomes a possibility. Plus, you might have to scrub and scour to clean the stain away if it sets.

With glass, you can let stains sit for a while and get to them when you can and they’ll still wipe up clean. There will be no stickiness, no discoloration, and no hint that you ever spilled a thing.

How about that for a holiday miracle?

 

Crumbs and Food Residue Are Gone in a Flash

The aforementioned tiny crevices in wooden countertops also make the ideal place for crumbs and food residue to get trapped. It’s not exactly sanitary to prepare and eat food on these surfaces once that happens.

With glass, all you have to do is moisten a soft cloth and wipe in one direction. The crumbs and food residue are gone, just like that. You’ll have enough headaches on Thanksgiving, so this is one you can avoid.

If you’re interested in learning more or ordering your own glass countertop today, contact us at CGD Glass Countertops. We’re available via online form or by phone to answer your questions.

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