Interior Niches
Interior Niches admin February 6, 2021

Interior Glass Niches

Sunset Memorial & Stone is proud to highlight our beautiful line of indoor columbarium niches. As a manufacturer of interior glass-front niches, granite, and marble front interior niches, we can design and build to meet your custom needs. Sunset focuses on providing top quality materials.  Our ¾” beveled glass adds value to a space for its refined beauty.

 

 
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Why Choose Sunset Memorial & Stone?

At Sunset, our engineering advantages are what sets us apart. 

  1. We don’t depend on the wall for rigidity. Sunset glass niches are designed to be free standing with periodic safety connections to the wall.  This design enables lower cost island configurations.
  2. We have the engineering skillset to address seismic conditions.
  3. We can provide more load bearing capacity within our interstitial niche space. This design feature allows us to create an all-glass corner niche without a support post creating a slick more modern “floating” appearance. 
  4. Our strip lighting location is set in a more central location of the niche to better highlight the urn.
  5. For cemeteries and churches that already have existing mausoleum niches or interior rooms, we have the “in-house” manufacturing and design flexibility to compliment any existing style.

Customization & Manufacturing Strengths

Looking for Customization of Interior niches?

At Sunset, we understand that customers are looking for designs that are unique and stand out from the competition. Our design team can help you create cremation options by integrating our corner glass and curved glass niches. Not only to enhance the aesthetics of the space but to increase value for the families you serve. 

Our skilled design engineers can create glass front niches that will accommodate various urn sizes or a family’s special feature request.  We have a talented team who have the skillset to create a space that works to your best benefit and focuses on return on investment.

What will be my ROI?

Curved Glass Front Options

Sunset has the capability to offer potential and existing clients: marketing tools such as a revenue schedule, color renderings, future room layouts.

You will be guided through the planning phase by a sales team that has over 46 years of industry experience. Our sales team will be able to assist you with planning multiphase projects. 

Sunset’s design team works collaboratively with our clients to create an exciting, customized interior niche space that is sure to please. Custom crosses, sculptures, graphic artwork details, alcoves and family niche options are just a few of the many exciting additions we can create.

45° Corner Glass Niches
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Open the corner space for more marketability.

Our angled corner glass niches are becoming a feature niche where two right angled walls can meet. 

This niche application is used to open up corner spaces to become more marketable. These niches are employed at the intersection of 2 perpendicular cremation niche walls. Traditionally, inner corner niches were considered an undesirable location for viewing due to the close proximity of surrounding niches.

The 45° corner glass front niche solves this problem, therefore becoming a premium space that is more marketable and preferred by families.

90° Corner Glass Niches

Enhance the view with a second sightline.

These glass niches are designed as a feature niche on the end of a flat wall or island niche unit. The corner glass front niches allow for greater visibility of the urns from 2 directions.  The corner glass niches allow more natural light to enter the niche and illuminate the urns. It is a desirable niche for showcasing personal memorabilia.  This is a highly marketable interior niche feature.

90° Curved Corner Glass Niches

Soften a sharp corner with a curve.

Our curved glass corner niche feature is perfect for client’s who are interested in softening a 90° end niche wall. This curved corner glass front niche column is a value-added design feature that provides families with multiple viewing angles.

Curved glass niches obviously come at an added cost; however, we have found not only does the curved glass add to the aesthetic uniqueness of a niche wall, but families see the value in paying a premium for these feature niches.

180° Curved Glass Niches

Increase your revenue with a stunning curved glass niche.

Add interest to a long straight niche wall by adding columns of graceful, curved glass niches. Sunset Memorial & Stone designs and manufactures exquisite 180° curved glass front niches. This design feature is becoming very popular with clients as families appreciate their beauty and are willing to pay a premium for this prominent style.

Pyramidal Glass Niches

Make a statement. Make a point.

To add aesthetic interest to a long wall consider breaking up the wall with prominent columns of pyramidal glass. This design feature is wonderful for showcasing a single urn.

Island Glass Niches

Running out of niche inventory in a building?
Sunset Memorial & Stone has a solution.

The use of island niches creates new revenue in newer rooms or older buildings. Consider an island glass front niche unit in the center of any room. It is the perfect product to sell more inventory within an existing sold-out space. Add interest to the empty sections of a chapel, or mausoleum while providing families with an option to be interred closer to a loved one.

Marble or Granite Front Shutters

Provide privacy and create continuity in a room.

Some indoor columbarium niche spaces are better suited to the privacy of granite or marble niche shutters. Sunset has the design capability to build our niche doors using a variety of marble, stone, or granite options.

Finishes and Trims

Ask about our wide variety of trim selection.

Granite wood, marble, aluminum we can customize to complement existing trim within your space. Kickplate (bottom trim), cornice (top trim) and side walls. Let us help you figure out how to create the best look for finishing that will meet your budget. 

Wood or marble coping, trim or custom finishes can be added to any interior niche design. These features can enhance the overall look and add value to new or existing rooms. 

Strip Lighting

Light up the niche!

Sunset has developed a unique strip lighting that illuminates the entire glass niche. For the families appreciate the ability to see more clearly the urns and memorabilia.

Niche Sizes Layouts

We understand that your families have diverse economic needs. Let us help you design an interior cremation niche layout with more mixed niche inventory to provide diverse options for your customers. Third, fourth, and fifth level niches are premium levels that could be 14” high to accommodate larger urns.

Interior Niche Color

Our standard interior niche color is an anodized “Champagne” aluminum interior and extrusion finish. Some other anodized color options may be available upon request.

Frequently Asked Questions

At Sunset, our engineering focus is based on the concept that the columbarium must not rely on the wall’s rigidity. Our interior glass niches are designed to be a free-standing structure that is periodically connected with safety connections to the wall. The frames’ core strength takes advantage of the interstitial niche space which allows us to add sleek corner glass features that do not require a corner support post. A Sunset glass niche columbarium can also be engineered to address seismic conditions. We have an innovative strip lighting that can illuminate: the front, centre, or back of the glass niche. This allows us to either compliment an existing lighting layout or provide beautiful illumination of an urn.

 

Before we can begin providing you with an interior niche price, there are a few things that our designers and engineers require. First, we require either architectural drawings­­­­­­­­ (if available) or hand drawn measurements of the room. We will need to know the size of the room, the walls’ length, width, height, and depth of space in front available. We will also need to know: the measurements of the doorway entrance, the access sizes of stairways and elevators. Secondly, we appreciate receiving photography of the room, entrance, and existing glass niche walls as this help us to better imagine the space and provide you with complimentary design options. Once we have received these documents, measurements or images, our engineers can then begin the drawing process to create glass niche layout options for your review. Once you have approved a design concept, we will then be able to provide you with an interior niche quote that will include both shipping and installation.

To receive an interior glass niche price, simply fill out the online contact form on this page or give us a call using our toll-free number. Our team will direct you to one of our interior niche sales representatives. Our experienced representatives will be able to answer any questions you may have about the steps for planning and developing a new interior cremation niche space. They will be able to guide you through the process and provide you with a quote.

At Sunset Memorial & Stone, we have your best interest at heart. We understand that there is an efficiency to building larger niche installations and finding that balance between cost per niche efficiency and our client’s budgets. Our intention is never to oversell cremation niches. To assist our clients through the process of determining how many interior niches to order in each phase, we recommend that you review the annual cremation interment statistics for your cemetery, church, or funeral home.  Understanding your budgetary requirements and future sales projections may be helpful. We have a wonderful Return on Investment Calculator that we will be happy to share with you to help you with your planning. The layout of the room may also determine the phase development so this will also have an impact on the glass or interior niche layout and overall niche count. Call our sales representative, as they will be able to assist you with best practices for determining how many interior niches to order at a time and what styles and sizes of cremation niches would benefit your ROI or compliment the space.

At Sunset Memorial & Stone, we understand every interior cremation niche project is unique and may require some customized features.  Simply provide one of our sales representatives with the wall dimensions: length, width, height, and depth of space in the front. Once we have these wall measurements, we ask one of our engineers for a quick review and they will be able to provide a rough estimate of how many interior niches may fit in the space. As you may see there are many diverse glass design features and niche front sizes that can impact those estimates. If you are wanting more detailed layouts, we will be happy to provide those to you with a quote. Give us a call and let us create the perfect glass niche front layout that will meet your needs. Our engineers and designers can help you maximize the interment capacity and while providing you with diverse cremation interment options that will meet the needs of your families.  

Absolutely. We understand your need to simply get a general niche price estimate. Budgetary estimates are essential part of the planning phase as it reduces everyone’s stress and time. We are always interested in assisting clients and learn about their interior niche projects. We will be more than happy to provide you with a budgetary estimate. Simply fill out the Contact Us form on this page or call our Toll-Free number and ask to speak with an interior niche sales representative.

Over the years we have developed a talented interior niche production team. Based on the complexity of the interior niche design and the number of existing projects in the queue, we will be happy to provide you with a turnaround estimate upon request. Don’t hesitate to call our office and ask about our timeline and current production schedule. We always work hard to accommodate our clients’ timelines.

Yes, Sunset Memorial & Stone has the capability to add lighting to any interior niche project. We simply require an electrical outlet location within the room. One of the benefits to our interior niche lighting is that we can set the lighting in the forefront, centre or back of the niche. Our strip lighting illuminates the urns beautifully.

Sunset Memorial & Stone’s standard glass niche opening is 11 7/8” square. This size of opening allows for 2 standard upright urns to easily fit inside the niche. However, we understand that some families prefer a taller, more elaborate urn for their loved one. For these situations, we have the capability to make custom indoor columbarium niches that can be larger or smaller if desired. Don’t hesitate to ask about incorporating a custom niche size into your next interior niche design.

At Sunset Memorial & Stone, we understand that some of our clients may have older versions of interior cremation niche products or mausoleum niches. Our columbarium glass niche models can be designed to make a connection with the existing product.

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