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Quick 'n Easy Theme Cage by Kathy
This album shows how one can make a theme cage with a minimum of effort and decorations. The cage used in this album is a modified 2 x 3 grid Cubes and Coroplast cage. Windows have been added to both sides and the front (see the "Creating Windows" album for more information on adding windows to a cage.) The only materials needed for this cage are corrugated plastic, 20 cable ties, 4 one-inch-binder clips, 4 pieces of clear-packing tape, 10 grid-cube panels, 4 pieces of acrylic, and your imagination. Please see Shelley's "Rainbow Apartments" and LilyGrace's "Bachelor's Pad" for additional "Quick 'n Easy" theme cages. A theme cage does not need to be a major production or extravagant...just the basics may be all that is needed or desired. Plus, as you will see with this type of cage, themes can be easily changed with the seasons or ones whim! Information on making a "Cubes and Coroplast" cage may be found at: www.cavycages.com

Date(s): July 19, 2002. Album by Kathy. Photos by Kathy and Calypso. 1 - 12 of 23 Total.
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Calypso used a wall border to make this simple theme cage that fits in perfectly with her home decor

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Valance that Calypso used as a starting point for her theme cage

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Close-up of fruit-themed wall border (and Milo enjoying some hay)

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Party decoration: slipped behind 10" high piece of clear acrylic

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The 2 x 3 grid cage used in this album features a window on the front and the two sides

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Close-up of acrylic: front and side pieces held in place with a one-inch-binder clip

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Front view of window being held in place with a one-inch-binder clip

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View of right-hand window from outside the cage: acrylic is placed inside the cage to protect cut-out edges of base

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Window on left-hand side of cage: view from outside the cage; window gives the resident guinea pigs a view of the cage next to them

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Sunflower pre-pasted wallpaper border slipped behind strip of acrylic to protect it from chewing and to hold it in place

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This photo shows a dinosaur wallpaper background held in place with the piece of acrylic

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A colorful preschool theme wallpaper border has been used for the background

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