Getting slap happy

I promised the double glazing and here it is over the louvred toilet window which lets the southerlies blow through and actually lets rain in too! Not any more. The room is noticeably warmer. Just seen you can see me in the photo...! ha ha.

It's Steve's very own invention, well - almost - it's a kind of stolen idea. Commercial companies do the same thing, create custom-made removable magnetic panels and attach them to existing windows - but for about $150 per pane. Steve's home-made version costs about $30 per pane, most of the cost being the adhesive magnetic tape. He's only used cheap thin perspex but you probably could scale it up to use a thicker kind of material which would be more transparent.

It works very well on conventional windows but on a lot of them you can't get a panel to fit (e.g. on sash windows) because there are locks etc. in the way. But it's a big improvement, plus you can remove them in the summer....

For some reason on our trip round Bunnings to buy a new shelf to put up in the kitchen (we were too short of worktop space so I thought I'd create a bit more next to the cooker)...

... we got distracted by paint and decided it would be a great idea to paint all of the cupboard doors in the kitchen a different colour using sample pots. Here's the before and after shots...

Before:

After:

I think it's very Balamory. I particularly like the purply one on the far right. But I think it clashes with the pink walls. With any luck we'll only have to live with this kitchen for a couple of years anyway...