First things first

20 June 2009

What is the first thing you do when you move into a brand new house?

You put blinds in. After that you clean up. Then you perform some rituals involving scattering a mixture of rice grains, tea leaves & salt over all corners of the house. Next, you leave all the lights on (yes, including the pantry & garage), get out of the house and do not enter until 3 days later. If that is not what you did, then all the best to you.

Pseudosciences aside, these are the other things that we did: -

Installing towel rails and ...

Bet you never thought of this, toilet paper holder

Because we wanted to be different, we set about to implement some art installations using paper screens to our front entry door. It looks like this: -

Papier d'art

Ya, I wish. In actual fact, what we have done is plaster the sides of the glazed area with recycled paper. For protection. We wanted to frost up the clear glass.

AUD$15 a bottle from Bunnings. We bought them for $8 due to a scam.

The clear glazing on the front entry entitles us no privacy at all. I do not like passers-by judging me just because I watch Desperate Housewives. Therefore, we have to frost up the glass with some opaque-ish spray paint.

Notice the difference? Now you see me ...

Now you don't.

It is a pretty good product, but I would not recommend it as long lasting or heavy duty. Firstly, it scratches easily, secondly, it needs a steady hand to apply and thirdly, it is probably more ideal as a temporary solution.