Stained Glass Overlay is a full service custom architectural art glass franchise. We serve a wide variety of consumers with a diverse product range of many types of decorative glass including textured glass, slumped glass, fused glass, traditional stained glass, beveled glass, leaded glass, v-groove glass and many others. Our specialty is our flagship product "Overlay". Since January 1981, when the Company started franchising its patented overlay product, response to the franchise offering has been tremendous. And, since July 1983, Stained Glass Overlay (SGO) has more than tripled its franchise territories awarded, while adding representation in such places as Canada, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Germany, Australia, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Philippines, Mexico, Guam/Micronesia, Singapore, Oman/UAE, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco and Russia. Our mission is to award franchise contracts to people who have the ability to enhance the SGO name, by using our operating systems and support services to build market share. SGO serves its franchise network as a trusted ally, providing them with the loyalty of a business partner.

Stained Glass Overlay Franchise Opportunity

Stained Glass Overlay is an international franchise company based in Orange California. Founded in 1974, the company began franchising its multi-patented designer glass process in 1981.

Stained Glass Overlay has over 150 locations in the United States and Canada, and strong representation in 35 other countries around the world. We are a world leader in the custom architectural decorative glass sector.

Our decorative glass works for any room in the home, office, place of worship, schools and many different commercial and institutional locations providing almost limitless opportunities for our franchise owners. Any individual, business, or institution with a need for decorative glass is a potential client.

Our studios offer products made using our overlay decorative glass process as well as a complete line of related architectural decorative glass products. SGO completes over 16,000 individual decorative glass jobs each year.

As a franchisee you will offer design service, finished product fabrication, as well as installation. Custom design is a specialty of ours! You will work closely with your clients from first design consultation all the way to finished product installation and we work closely to our franchisees to ensure their success.