Diamonds are a boy's best friend

A while back I replaced the windows in the front of the house, the four that made up the bay window. They were totally shot, a couple wouldn't even close properly. I wanted to do upper panes and a friend of mine told me that it was "very East Hampton" to do diamond shaped panes. I like the idea...and so it happened. I liked the way that it mimicked the diamond pattern of the rail above the front screened-in porch too, I had a quasi-design motif going even though this house was turning into a hodgepodge of renovation add-ons.
Here's the bay window from the outside...

The bay window.

and here it is from the inside, picture is kinda dark but you get the idea...

Inside looking out.

The diamond pattern up above on the porch railing.

So then the diamond idea kept growing.
One day I was over at my friend Steve's house when he was doing a major renovation. A winter pipe had burst and had destroyed his kitchen and dining room with water damage. He had two window paned doors that he was tossing out that enclosed a closet in the dining room. They were just sitting outside on his porch. "What are you going to do with those doors?"
"Nothing. You want 'em?"
"Sure! I'll take one of them. I know just what to do with it."
I thought it would make a good room divider between my fireplace room (the living room) and the kitchen. It would act like a screen but it would allow light to come through. You wouldn't feel like you were sitting right next to the dishwasher when you sat in that room.
And best of all? The panes on the door were in a DIAMOND PATTERN. Perfect. The decorating theme continued.
I had my carpenter Zeb install it nicely, he cut it down to size--it was too tall to fit--and he put molding all around the edges to secure it.
I love how it turned out...

The permanent 'screen' between the living room & kitchen.

Another day I was driving around Sag Harbor and as is the practice in our little town, someone had
put a pile of stuff on their front lawn with a "FREE" sign on it. In the pile was a wooden window that I spotted with my eagle eye and, you guessed it, it had DIAMOND panes. I screeched to a halt, grabbed that thing and put it in my SUV. I later painted it a dark cranberry color, the color of the front door and the stairwell and it sits leaning up against the wall next to the fireplace. I'm not sure what statement I'm going for with it, but it's got those diamonds in it so it makes me smile.

The window pane 'object d'art'