{"id":221,"date":"2021-08-15T01:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T01:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2021-08-15T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:19:16","slug":"building-a-terrarium-back-wall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/building-a-terrarium-back-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Terrarium back wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building a Terrarium back wall<\/h2>\n\n\n

Building a back wall for your terrarium is some work, but I really think it pays off in the long term. Having a nicely designed terrarium in your living room is a real eye catcher. To be fair: the resident usually does not care at all \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We started by putting up Styrodur on some spots to have a bit uneven structure later<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Then we placed a mat on the ground because the next step is a bit messy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(A lot) Construction foam is sprayed on the walls<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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When the foam was completely dried, we cut it and tried to give it a natural look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don’t need to work out the small crevices as we will use a lot of paint in the next step.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We primed everything with black tile glue to get dark shadows and contrast (and because the yellow Styrodur would shine through).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the last step we used a dry brushing technique and created a natural looking habitat<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Building a back wall for your terrarium is some work, but I really think it pays off in the long term. Having a nicely designed terrarium in your living room is a real eye catcher. To be fair: the resident usually does not care at all \ud83d\ude09 We started by putting up Styrodur on some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m1nd.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}