Good Grief....We finally got the money together to order the gable glass, so I took the quote and measurements back to the place yesterday. They now tell me that their distributor cannot make custom glass that is 11'x5'...too big. The local company even pointed it out that they had already said they could do it, but the distributor said it was a mistake.
{sigh}
Sooooo, I have to reconfigure the opening into 4 panes of glass instead of two, so back to the drawing board. My wife helped and actually came up with this:
There is just no way around making it "busy", but her design is growing on me. I drew 5-6 designs that looked way worse(drunken spider webs). Tomorrow I am going to cut the two 7' braces and put them up there, then stand back and see if it still looks ok. In the long run, installing 4 - 200+lb panes of glass will be much safer than two 450lb one's.
I did talk to a commercial glass place in N.C, since I know I have seen glass that big in buildings. The guy said, yes it can be done, to the tune of about $5,000 a piece:shocked: They would have to have steel frames and the install would require a crane. At least my curiosity has been satisfied :thumbsup: