DIY Re-purposed up-cycled enclosures

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

it looks great!!! I think I may have to go buy some materials to do something.

[Selkielass]

Haberdashery display?
That could look seriously cool, but heat and moisture would likely damage the piece- don't convert anything you'd feed bad about ruining.
Take a look back thru the enclosures section of the reptile report for links to some amazing projects. Entertainment centers, china cabinets and computer cases have all been waterproofed an turned into awesome enclosures.

[Ruth]

Thanks all for your ideas and in put it all looks very exciting. I'm not going to look through it all now as I'll get too excited and wont sleep lol so I will have a good look tomorrow.

[Ruth]

I keep looking and seeing some amazing naturalistic enclosures. I'm thinking of maybe getting a small enclosure to test my ability of keeping the plants alive before doing a big one in the hope of housing any snakes in it. I have seen this lovely haberdashery cabinet though.

$(KGrHqRHJEsFEP1QVNTNBRJlGWKND!~~60_12.JPGI do a lot of sewing so would be a very appropriate enclosure and wow would it look stunning all planted up. It has a wooden top and sliding doors to the back.

[ChareiHeals]

This thread gave me an idea, so I started doing some looking on our local classifieds and found a display cabinet for sale. About 6 foot long by 2 foot wide, top bottom front and back were glass, the frame was oak, with one side having sliding doors. I was thinking I could seal the glass and then have a proverbial snake utopia, but my idea got shot down real quick when I suggested it to my husband and he says "that seems like overkill" LOL. Suffice it to say, I thought I'd pass along the idea, in case you guys want to do a little overkilling of your own.

[Selkielass]

An old orchid case could make an extremely cool terrarium, and the y are often metal, teak and other rot resistant materials.

Watch for grooves and pinch points on display case doors- either can badly injure a snake.
Grooved sliding doors also can become fouled with substrate. Easy to faculty out if dry but wet materials and poor can stick like cement.

[vukic]

ChareiHeals

Na go for it... Who cares if its a little over kill... Ha ha

[Steveo]

This thread gave me an idea, so I started doing some looking on our local classifieds and found a display cabinet for sale. About 6 foot long by 2 foot wide, top bottom front and back were glass, the frame was oak, with one side having sliding doors. I was thinking I could seal the glass and then have a proverbial snake utopia, but my idea got shot down real quick when I suggested it to my husband and he says "that seems like overkill" LOL. Suffice it to say, I thought I'd pass along the idea, in case you guys want to do a little overkilling of your own.

One of my wishes when I get a house is to take an old china hutch or something similar and turn it into a viv for a green tree python. I think it would make a great display piece.