Christmas Decorating Tips for Your Glass Countertop

Christmastime is here again, and you’ve decked the halls with boughs of holly. Your kitchen could use a bit of holiday décor as well, but you’re not quite sure what to do with this space. There are still a few weeks until Christmas, so you’ve got plenty of time. Once you finish reading this post, we’re sure you’ll have the inspiration to whip up something beautiful.

Here are some of our top Christmas decorating tips and ideas for your glass countertop.

Garland Around the Countertop

If you’re not sure what to do with the glass countertop itself, wrapping some garland around it is one of the most classic ways to celebrate the holiday season. You can use your favorite garland in hues like rich red or deep forest green as well as metallics like festive gold or silver. Should you feel like decorating with pine garland, real or faux, you could wrap lights through it, find an outlet, and light the whole thing up. Your kitchen will glow with the holiday spirit.

Glass Jars Full of Ornaments

Have some Christmas ornaments lying around? It’s time to put them to good use! No, not on the tree, but rather, on your glass countertop. Take a few jars or glass containers of varying heights. Fill about a quarter of each container with fake snow (using colored sand, finely-ground foam, or even a faux snow product), and then put a few prized ornaments up to the top of the jar. Make sure you select ornaments of different colors for a more vivid effect.

Miniature Christmas Tree Centerpiece

No room is complete without a Christmas tree, even your kitchen. This holiday, make sure everyone knows where the central hub of the home is with your very own kitchen countertop Christmas tree. Now, this shouldn’t be huge; just a little tabletop tree will do.

You can buy a real tree or shop for a fake one, whichever you prefer. Do keep in mind that pine needles will shed off real trees, which can create a hygiene issue if you’re also using your glass kitchen countertop for food prep.

Feel free to decorate the tree, be that with a string of lights, ornaments, garland, and even a small star.

Ready to Change Your Kitchen for the Holidays? Call Us at CGD Glass Countertops Today!

Could your kitchen countertop use an upgrade? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Here at CGD Glass Countertops in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, we specialize in countertops above all else. We give you, the customer, the freedom to customize your countertop your way. For instance, you can select the thickness of the glass, the shape, style, any texturing, whether the glass comes colored, and optional LED lights (white or multicolor).

A glass countertop makes for the perfect entertaining solution during the holidays. Glass cleans up quickly and easily, leaving no stains, stickiness, and germs behind. If you’re ready to begin discussing your glass kitchen countertop project, we’re all ears. Please call us at 416-398-9733 today.

4 Ways Glass Countertops and Other Kitchen Surfaces Make Thanksgiving Prep and Cleanup a Breeze

Can you believe Thanksgiving is right around the corner? You love cooking for close friends and family, but you have to admit the kitchen gets rather chaotic this time of year. Wouldn’t it be nice to reduce the mess and the stress this Thanksgiving? With a new set of countertops and other glass kitchen items from CGD Glass Countertops, you can.

Here are four ways having glass kitchen surfaces will make all your holiday cooking and cleanup so much easier.

1. Glass Backsplashes Safeguard Your Walls

Turkey juices, rogue corn kernels, and is that a squashed cranberry splattered on your beautiful kitchen wallpaper? You get so crazy when cooking for a big holiday like Thanksgiving that you hardly even pay attention to your kitchen walls until it’s too late. Set-in stains that have sat for hours rarely come out of your pretty wallpaper without a fight.

Take better care of your walls this holiday season with a glass backsplash from us at CGD Glass Countertops. You can size your backsplash to protect your entire wall or just part of it. You’re also not limited by the size, shape, design, and color of your backsplash. Hey, backsplashes don’t just have to be functional, but appealing, too!

2. A Glass Kitchen Island Gives You an Extra Food Prep Surface

It never seems like you have a big enough countertop on Thanksgiving. After all, you’ve got pots, pans, dishes, and bowls full of food to put on the dining room table. If you’re left to stacking things to make your holiday prep work, then you definitely need a glass kitchen island.

You’ll love having an extra surface to prepare meals on. Now you can ensure that you plate everything on time and don’t burn the biscuits in your frenzied haste.

3. Glass Cleans up Incredibly Easily

When dinner is done and people begin thinking about the pumpkin pie, you can easily clean your glass countertop to make room for dessert. All you need is a soft cloth, water, and some soap. Make sure you wipe in the same direction to avoid streakiness, just like with any other glass surface.

Within minutes, you’ll be done with the cleanup. How convenient, especially after the exhaustion of a long day of cooking.

4. Germs and Bacteria Can’t Linger

Another great benefit of glass kitchen surfaces is how efficiently they clean up. With woodgrain and even some metal, small divots and imperfections make for the perfect hiding spaces in which bacteria and germs can linger.

No one wants to end up sick for the holidays. With glass surfaces from CGD, you can ensure your kitchen is truly clean and germ-free.

Ready to Get Cookin’ This Holiday Season? Contact Us at CGD Glass Countertops Today

Whether you want to upgrade your old countertops to glass ones or get a kitchen island or backsplash installed, you’ve come to the right place. Here at CGD Glass Countertops, we can revitalize your kitchen, making it cleaner, better, and more attractive than ever. Why not give us a call today? Happy holidays!

Fall Decorating Tips for Your Glass Countertop

Halloween may have just passed us by, but with Thanksgiving still on the calendar ahead, fall hasn’t gone anywhere yet. You may want to toss out your jack-o’-lanterns, but there’s no need to prematurely put away the rest of your beautiful faux fall foliage.

Since you’ll have family and other guests gathering around the kitchen come Thanksgiving, you want to fill your countertop with seasonal cheer as well. Here are a few decorating ideas for a perfectly picturesque countertop.

Autumn Leaf Garland

You can either buy or make your autumn leaf garland. Long strands of fake leaves in every color look great affixed around your countertop. You can keep the whole thing attached using fishing string or even Command hooks. For a truly warm feeling, weave some string lights into the garland.

Gourds, Gourds, and More Gourds

As we said before, the jack-o’-lanterns may be gone, but your pumpkins can take up residency on your countertop for at least the rest of the month. Since you use your countertop for food prep, don’t go too big with your pumpkin sizes. To add some visual appeal, mix in gourds of different shapes, sizes, and colors.

Tip: If you’re worried about real gourds and pumpkins rotting, go for the fake kind instead.

Seasonal Spices

Allspice, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, cloves: these are the scents of fall. Take a few mason jars or other decorative jars and fill each with the above spices. Then organize them on the counter. If you have jars of varying sizes, that will look even better.

The Smells of Home

Sure, the aromas of that baking pumpkin pie or slowly roasting turkey will have mouths watering. For those times you’re not cooking, though, a few scented candles will really invoke all the scent-sations of fall. Pick a few favorite aromas and light a candle whenever the mood strikes.

A Cornucopia

Thanksgiving is on the way, so you might as well decorate early. A real woven cornucopia in the center of your countertop is a quick and easy way to add instant appeal to your kitchen. Feel free to fill the cornucopia with fruits (real or fake) or small pumpkins and other gourds. You can even do a mix of both!

Looking for the Perfect Countertop for All Your Holiday Entertaining? Call us at CGD Glass Countertops Today

Is your countertop a little too small to accommodate all the holiday cooking on your calendar? Is it so old you wonder how it will survive another cooking season? If so, come to us at CGD Glass Countertops. We’re a Canadian glass manufacturer that specializes in countertops. It’s in our name, after all.

A glass countertop not only has a timeless appeal that will augment any kitchen, but it’s so easy to clean, too. With a soft cloth and some soap and water, you can wipe down the counter in a jiffy and get back to your holiday fun.

To learn more about our glass countertops or place an order, give us a call today at CGD Glass Countertops at 416-398-9733

5 Reasons Why LED Backlighting for Glass Tabletops Is a Great Idea

Do you like your current tables and wish you could protect them for years to come? It would be great if you could encase them in glass, although you know that’s not realistic. Well, what exactly is unrealistic about it?

Here at CGD Glass Countertops, our glass tabletops are one of our best-selling products. We size these glass surfaces to cover your preexisting table. From an office table to a living room end table, a kitchen table, or even a dining room table, we can make a glass tabletop for any of these and more.

Besides the glass tabletop itself, we also offer LED backlighting at CGD Glass Countertops. You can select from such options as cool white or color-changing LEDs that switch between green, blue, and red.

If you need some convincing, here are five phenomenal reasons to get LED backlighting for your new glass tabletop.

1. Dresses up a Tabletop Without the Need for a New One

Tables are expensive, especially bigger ones like dining room tables. Once you have the glass tabletop installed over your preexisting table, it will feel like a new piece of furniture. Adding even further to that is our LED backlighting. That new table feel without the hefty price tag of a new table? That sounds pretty great to us!

2. Adds Beauty to Any Room

LED lights are all the rage because they’re beautiful and energy efficient. If your home office, dining room, living room, or kitchen could use some more appeal, we recommend you get our LED backlighting installed with your glass tabletop. Suddenly that room will become the most popular in your home!

3. Makes It Easy to See Smudges and Stains

It may drive you batty to have to leave stains and other messes behind on your tabletop, but you can’t see them all to clean them. Well, that is, before you got a glass tabletop installed. Now, with CGD’s LED backlighting, it’s easier than ever to detect stains, fingerprints, and smudges on every last square inch of the tabletop. You can quickly and easily wipe these away with a soft cloth, keeping your eating surfaces cleaner.

4. Provides Extra Illumination for Safety

Ever get thirsty in the middle of the night and need a glass of water? Perhaps you’re one of those midnight snack types. Either way, as you wander from room to room in your home in the middle of the night, you won’t be left walking completely in the dark. The vivid illumination of our LED lights will guide the way with their soft yet vibrant glow.

5. Shows Off Those Glass Textures

Another unique service we offer our clients here at CGD Glass Countertops is glass texturing. This is an especially awesome option with our tabletops, as it creates another dimension to your beloved table. If you spent the time picking out a fantastic texture (and we have many to choose from), you want to ensure you can see it, right? With our LED lighting, you’ll have no problem with that at all.

It’s Fall, So It’s the Perfect Time for Glass Panels

Goodbye sunlight, you say sadly as another summer comes to a close. It’s not just you, right? The days have already gotten ridiculously short, even if the temperatures are still in summer mode. It feels like you’re scrambling to enjoy daylight already, and that’s quite difficult considering you work all day. You see the sun is up when you awaken, then it’s pretty much disappearing into the sky by the time you leave.

It’s important to get some exposure to sunlight, as it’s the best source of vitamin D we’ve got. Sure, you can take supplements, but it’s much easier and more pleasant to spend 10 minutes in the sun instead. Sunlight and vitamin D may increase our lifespan, some researchers believe. The brightness of the light also triggers our brains to make more serotonin, increasing our mood and even our focus.

If you feel like you’re lacking sunlight in your life, then now is the perfect time to consider glass panels from us at CGD Glass Countertops. After all, it’s already autumn, the days will only get shorter from here. This year into next, you’ll be ready for the stretch of colder weather and darker days with our glass panels.

At CGD Glass Countertops, we’re a Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based glass manufacturer. What makes us stand out from the competition is that we allow our clients to customize their glass accent pieces and other home décor. From countertops to glass panels, partitions, and everything in between, we put the design power in your hands.

For instance, let’s talk about our glass panels for a bit. These can be as large or small as you want. You can also choose which shapes, styles, colors, and designs you prefer. You can get the panels installed in such a way to let in more natural light to a room, increasing your mood. You’ll love spending time in a space like this.

Our glass panels also open up any room in which you get them installed, making the space look bigger and airier. If you’re a business owner, you can even get your glass panels from CGD emblazoned with your company logo. As you can see then, there’re endless possibilities for you to explore when you work with our team here at CGD.

If you’re ready to get started today, then we recommend you measure the room you want the glass panels. If you have blueprints or drawings to share, make sure you pass those along, too. Our team will then provide a quote for the work. If you’re happy with it, then we’ll proceed with the project.

Whether you want to beautify your home or your office with glass panels from CGD Glass Countertops, we’re more than happy to help. You can reach out to us today at our website at www.cgdglasscountertops.com, our online contact form on our site, through our email at info@cgdglass.com, or by phone at 416-398-9733. We’re looking forward to working with you!

Sources:

https://www.consumerreports.org/health-wellness/sun-exposure-health-benefits/