Japanese house # 8

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Shoji screen paper repair and replacement Its time to replace the shoji screens down stairs. It was trial and error and a lot of patients. If you take your time you can replace your screens cheaply and still do a great job. Its cool you can get all kinds of prints here and I went with a light bamboo pattern. Of course having a shoji master do it is better but since they get wrecked after a few years I wanted to save money and learn how myself. The master will do a great job and they turn out tight like a drum head but mine came out great and after the first two I got the rest done really fast as the learning curve progressed. I had a few minor wrinkles and they do not come out as tight as a glue job by a master but it looks great! It cost me 4000 yen including the plastic slide rail tape for all the screens total including one mistake. One roll usually does two full size doors. The iron on paper I used is more resistant to stains and dirt due to the fact it has synthetic material in it and it comes of with a heated iron later with far less clean up, however there are may types of iron paper and glue on papers available. I did six units for that price, two window panels and four doors. It took me half the day but next time its only going to take a few hours. Cleaning the glue off was the hardest part but that also went faster as I developed my own technique. The iron on type that I used is a fairly recent development in the shoji world. At least that's what Japanese people ...