On Oct 25, 5:59*am, "Richard Trethaway" richard@void wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

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My daughter's roommate found an old beat up window with 2
panes of
glass and a mutton across the middle. She planned to hang
it on her
wall with a poster of some mountains behind it but before
she had a
chance to hang it, one of the panes got broken.

I offered to replace the panes with plexiglass to make it
lighter/
safer but she was concerned that it would loose it's charm
if it had
new panes, new glazing and no paint drops splattered on
the window
like the original one.

I told her not to worry...

I replaced both panes with plexiglass and use white caulk
as the
glazing. I got some dirt from the backyard and rubbed it
into the
caulk with my finger, making the caulk a dirty gray and
pretty sloppy.

I then used a paint brush to splatter some black and white
paint on
the panes.

When she first saw it, she thought I had just replaced the
broken pane
and made it match the other one. When she picked up the
window and
noticed how light it was, she realized that I had replaced
them both.

It really does look very much like the original window and
you'd be
hard pressed to tell that it had just been repaired.

If you really want it to look authentic, get her some
spiders (non-poisonous, of course) to hang out on the window
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That might be OK with the roommate, but my daughter is seriously *not*
a fan of spiders. It's a dorm room, so...