Post #553247 by Club Nouméa on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 2:10 AM

Let's try that again - glowing eyes in the dark:

That's better!

The bar top has now been decorated. I purchased some tinted glass and put various pieces of New Caledonian ephemera under it:

The old postcard in the top centre claims to be of New Caledonia, but the carvings in it look suspiciously like they are from the New Hebrides...

And another window installation has been completed. This one is in a window at the bottom of a flight of stairs:

The image is a picture from a 1970s book on New Caledonia and was scanned, enlarged and printed out on gloss photographic paper, backed with semi-rigid clear plastic. This window gets a lot of sunlight, but is opposite some book shelves, so previously the curtains were usually closed to protect the books from fading. With the photographic paper and the transparent plastic in place, the window now still lets in light but no longer fades my books.

As the window is at the bottom of a flight of stairs, the two wooden planks across the window are padded with foam rubber and constitute a safety barrier in the event of someone falling down the stairs. They are substantial enough to stop a light fall, but are light enough to break and give way in the event of a heavy fall. In that event, the newly-installed plastic backing behind the photo is a safety measure too, as it protects the accident victim from shattering glass should he or she fall hard enough to break through the planks.

I nailed in bamboo trim (bamboo from my local bamboo patch) around the edges of the image to stop light getting in, and painted the nail heads brown so they match the bamboo.

CN

Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas !

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2010-09-12 02:12 ]