So after I gathered my materials, it was show time. I bought about a litre of paint and applied two coats on each one. I only needed to paint one side for my project, but if you’re building a V-flat, you can just as easily paint both sides. Painting on them was rather easy and once they dried, they looked really good! Their original colour is light blue and I used a light brown paint on them which did a very good job in covering the original colour.

As I said the boards were made to fit into one another, but of course that wasn’t enough to hold them together. I bought some mending plates and I used them to fix the boards together with screws. In practice though, that did not work well because this type of material can’t really hold the screws and they came right off. So out came the glue gun. I glued their sides and pressed them together for a bit. Then I put the mending plates again, this time also using glue. That seemed to work. The toughest part was holding the wall while simultaneously trying to put it in place. It would have been easier if someone else could hold the wall.

Very quickly the main structure of the room was ready. It was very light so I had no problem moving it around on my own. I was careful though, because it is very easy to break. The next step was to conceal the points of contact between the boards as well as I could. What I did was tape over them and then paint over the tape. That seemed to work ok, although I still had to do some cloning later in photoshop.

The final step for my construction was the floor. I could have used the same type of boards, or fabric or even real flooring. For my project I decided to use dirt, that served as a symbol to the project’s general concept. I first layed a large piece of tarp on the floor, to avoid the mess and then I poured about five or six bags of pure organic dirt on it. The organic thing is not necessary of course, I just liked its colour and texture.