{"id":106,"date":"2009-08-17T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/?p=106"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:55:48","slug":"diy-painted-glass-kitchen-splash-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"DIY PAINTED GLASS KITCHEN SPLASH BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My better half liked the look of a glass splash back which is painted on the back (I admit I did as well till we saw the price &#8211; R3500 :- $350). Because I couldn&#8217;t help it, I decided to see if I could do it myself &#8211; I mean how hard could it be?<\/p>\n<p>Actually it all turned out surprisingly easy and I must say at less than a third of the price, well worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>I approached the supplier who did my frame-less glass shower and got him to supply me with a sheet of 6mm toughened glass. I then gave one side a light sanding with 1200 grit water paper (just to give a slight key to the paint). Then with thinners I cleaned and then cleaned again the side to be sprayed.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was simply 2 coats Acrylac spray paint and some double-sided \u00a0tape &#8211; here is the result (painted side goes at the back):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111\" title=\"Glass Splash Back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_21321-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Glass Splash Back\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_21321-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_21321.JPG 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glass Splash Back (bamboo sides)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_112\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112\" title=\"Glass Splash Back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_21331-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Glass Splash Back\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_21331-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_21331.JPG 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glass Splash Back - (Top doors still to come)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My better half liked the look of a glass splash back which is painted on the back (I admit I did as well till we saw the price &#8211; R3500 :- $350). Because I couldn&#8217;t help it, I decided to see if I could do it myself &#8211; I mean how hard could it be? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insitucon.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}