Make a Cat Bed from a Computer Monitor

Step 12 Painting and Accessorizing the Monitor

Painting on the Monitors
Only some types of paints will stick to the plastic...  I have learned the hard way :-) 

Spray paint
I have found the plastic spray paints to be excellent and fairly easy to find at big home improvement stores, however you have a limited amount of colors.

Paint pens
Awesome for fun, and small areas.  I don't like the smell but the adhesion is great, and you don't need to wait to be able to go outside in order to paint & work on it.

Sharpies
These are really neat for transparent effects, but don't expect the color to last forever with these, they will fade with UV light over time.

Plastic Primer
I have long been looking for ways to paint with acrylics on my monitors, and this seems to be the best solution.  The plastic primer (also available in a spray can) seems to give the surface enough tooth for the paint to hold on to.  This is fairly hard to find though, and I can only find it consistently  on the internet.

Model Paints
(not pictured)  The little paints you can buy for painting model airplanes and such, also works quite well on the TV's and monitors.

Gluing Accessories on to the Monitor
2 part Epoxy, and E-6000 seem to do well for gluing things on to the monitor.  I find I sometimes need to use painters tape to tape things down while it sets up.

Comments

[king kolton9]

is it olny old tv that need grounded ive had my moniter for what 3 years will it still hold a charge

[AlpineButterfly]

No it's not only TV's that hold a charge... monitors do to. But ... personally, (like don't hunt me down if I'm wrong) if it hadn't been plugged in for 3 years, i don't think i would be worried, i think it slowly looses it's charge. Mind you... 2nd disclaimer... I am not a technician, just a gal who likes to tinker ;-)

[asauerbrei-kelly]

You know what...you were right about monitors holding a charge. My husband is an Electronics Tech in the Navy and he's my go-to guy for all things electrical. He told me that since our monitor hadn't been plugged in for 5+ years, I didn't have to worry about shocking myself, but there was that chance with the monitor I bought this morning because it's condition was unknown to us. I wore work gloves, and my husband pointed out to me what parts of the "guts" to watch out for, just in case. :) Good advice all around!

[AlpineButterfly]

Yeah!!! [and a shout out to handy husbands, who go along with their wife's fun, silly, crazy ideas!! ]

[king kolton9]

thx that really helped i just dident want a repeat of the wet hands open outlet again

[AlpineButterfly]

Sound as bad as my coat hanger in to socket incident... ;-)

[king kolton9]

ouch!!! and no