It's finished!

Technically it needs another piece of trim but nevermind that! It's taken just about 3 years but Satins enclosure is finally finished. It was always meant to be a display piece, something that could be put in the living room/public area of wherever we lived, but due to life/laziness we just put it together enough for her to live in until about half a year ago. I just finished painting it today, and now we can sit back and admire our combined hard work. (bf built it, I designed/painted)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...psiupbtzay.jpg

Wow that looks really awesome! Nice work!

That looks really awesome! One question though: how come you used a heat lamp instead of a radient heat panel (RHP)? A RHP would fit nicely inside the enclosure so you dont have to have the heat lamp on top. Otherwise I think you did a great job!

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Originally Posted by Mr. Misha

That looks really awesome! One question though: how come you used a heat lamp instead of a radient heat panel (RHP)? A RHP would fit nicely inside the enclosure so you dont have to have the heat lamp on top. Otherwise I think you did a great job!

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Thanks! At the time of building it I didn't know about RHPs (plus we were building on a tight budget and already had a heat lamp), so that's pretty much the only reason I didn't put that in instead. :oops: I have been talking about switching to a RHP though.

Wow! Really, really nice. Looks fantastic - would love to see some more photos from the front, instead of at an angle :) You and your BF both did a really great job.

Due to finals I haven't been over to get pictures of it, but here are some more pictures, as asked. :D

The front.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...ps18bf2822.jpg

And the "wood" trim. It's actually PVC trim with wood patterning. Painting the trim took the longest, since unlike the tan areas where I could put painters tape over the trim and roller the paint on, I had to half-crouch and paint VERY slowly along the trim. I give credit to my art skills that I didn't get brown paint on anything else except in a few places. :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...psqpds37lc.jpg

Thinking of putting something like a tile-pattern (I saw someone use a stone-patterned one and it looked awesome, but it won't match with the wood look) linoleum on the inside, since it's so boringly white.

Awesome work!

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It looks really nice! Great job!

That's beautiful!

One day I want to build something like that, you don't mind if I take the pictures and use them as inspiration do you? ;)