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Do you like to give your home interior a bit of personal flair? You\u2019re not the only one! Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to customize your home so that every corner of it feels like you<\/em>. Keystone Home Products wants to address one really great DIY technique that\u2019s easy to do and extremely underutilized: glass etching. We\u2019ll briefly cover how you can use glass etching to customize your glass shower enclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is Glass Etching?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It may sound dangerous or difficult, but glass etching is actually very easy. What is it? Well, have you ever seen a piece of glass – a wine glass, a candle holder, an old glass lamp shade, etc. – with an opaque design on it? This design is usually white, but it\u2019s not something applied to the surface, like paint. This is glass etching. The glass is transformed to be opaque in only select areas, allowing you to paint or stencil on any design you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Is It Done?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Glass etching may sound like something you have to do with special tools or a laser, but it\u2019s not. It\u2019s much simpler than that. The opaque design added to any piece of glass is done by applying acid to it. The acid eats through the surface of the glass, creating such consistent damage to it that it simply loses its transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applying acid to something sounds dangerous, right? Well, not much more than most other DIY projects, or putting in a load of laundry with some bleach. The acid used for glass etching is sold in hardware or crafting stores. It comes in the form of a cream or paste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you intend to do some glass etching, you\u2019ll want to look up a detailed guide<\/a>. However, the general process involves creating a template with a sheet of vinyl, temporarily adhering it to the surface of the glass, applying your glass etching solution to the exposed part of the glass, giving it some time to work its magic, then cleaning it all off. Left behind is a beautiful, opaque design on your glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using Glass Etching to Customize Your Shower Enclosure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Glass etching is most commonly used to customize small pieces of kitchenware, such as champagne glasses. This is often done for printing dates or names on things to create memory pieces for things like wedding dates. However, glass etching is a versatile craft and can be used for many more things than people frequently use it for. For example, you could use it to add a custom design to your shower enclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some great ideas are to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n