Satin
Privacy Glass
 Satin
glass is the perfect privacy glass for use in bathroom doors and
other areas that glass with clear sections wouldn't
be suitable. The glass has an etched glass appearance to
the whole area of the glass and we can create many forms of
our decorative glass techniques using Satin glass. One
product
that works really well with Satin glass is our
etched glass or Sandblasted glass as it is also known. When creating
an etched glass design using Satin glass we would etch the reverse side
of the Satin leaving the Satin side unaffected by the sandblasting process.
On the right we have an image of a recent job created for a client showing exactly how the etched glass sections
of the design stand out well against the background of the Satin glass. With normal etched glass
there would be clear areas left in the design to allow the design to be seen
against the etched background but with Satin, all of the non-etched areas
are Satin glass so it is not possible to see through any areas of the glass.
Satin glass is the perfect glass for use in bathrooms,
wet rooms and en-suites
because of the overall low visibility it offers through the glass and no matter what is behind
the glass, people will not be able to make out anything other than fuzzy
shades of light.
Satin glass still allows a lot of the natural light into the room and it does have a
very modern feel to the glass without having a 'too prominent' pattern to
the
etched design effect.
 The Leadbitter Glass studio recently created a door and side panel combination
for a bathroom door in Manchester and you can see the finished product here.
Once the 'bubbles' design was etched onto the back of the Satin glass we actually coloured the etched sections
of the design a light blue colour using our coloured
etched glass product and this gave a great effect to the new modern bathroom.
When the Satin glass is sandblasted the design will appear in a lighter shade than the rest of the Satin glass and here you can see an image that helps explain the effect achieved using Satin glass.
On the left of the image you can see the side of the glass that has been sandblasted and the star design is crisp and clear. On the right you can see the design as viewed from the other side of the glass (the Satin side) and the star now appears to be slightly blurred.
The view from the Satin side of the glass makes the etched areas appear in a slight 3D effect and under certain lighting conditions the etched areas of the glass actually appear a little bit darker than the Satin glass.
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