Want to paint names on my chin's house

[marinewifey4433]

I just want to paint their names on their house, what kind of paint can I use? I have tons of non toxic acrylic paint but just wanted ya'lls point of view on this. Or should I not do it at all? Im just decking out their cage!

 

[Whimsy]

I wouldn't recommend paint.
You could try using a food dye instead or a wood burning kit.

 

[marinewifey4433]

I wouldn't recommend paint.
You could try using a food dye instead or a wood burning kit.

Okay thanks, I have a wood burning kit. I didn't even think of that :hmm:

 

[DanitheTulip]

what if?

what if your just painting the outside of a handmade melamine habitat? the chins dont really touch the outside. Im making a very tall one with a storage unit built in the bottom, dont see a way a chin could climb on it with such a smooth outer surface.

 

[Twilight Chinchillas]

They white melamine strips that you can purchase to line the outside the cages to make it all match. That's how mine were finished.

Here is an example of what I did to one of my chin houses. I used chin safe wood dye, and a wood burning kit.

 

[rainey]

They white melamine strips that you can purchase to line the outside the cages to make it all match. That's how mine were finished.

Here is an example of what I did to one of my chin houses. I used chin safe wood dye, and a wood burning kit.

I LOVE that house. What do you mean by lining the outside of the cage with melamine? I am having trouble picturing it, but I guess I don't have a good idea of what melamine strips even are.

 

[Twilight Chinchillas]

The melamine strips come in a roll, and look sort of like a roll of tape. The strips are cut to length to cover the exposed unfinished part of the melamine cages, vs having to paint them.

 

[rainey]

Oh okay thanks for the info.

 

[mercynursie]

please share your melamine strip secret.My strips looked all pretty for about a month but then started catching on everything and getting broken off.:wacko:

 

[Twilight Chinchillas]

Alison here on the list of Alison's chinchillas actually made my cages. I bought them from a breeder, that had purchased them from her. They are still holding up really well. I know I had looked at the box once while shopping at Lowes, as I do have a couple cages we personally made ourselves, and I want to finish them off. I think it said to iron them on? How did you apply your strips? I do know there is an adhesive for flooring that holds up very very well. If you were careful that might work? I used it to put laminate tiles over cement in a unfinished part of my basement, and that stuff is never coming up!