How to make an UGLY space pretty...CHEAPLY

I must apologize for not posting in some time...but I got so excited over a recent project, I just had to share.  I wish I had before pictures of the light on my landing (you know, that unused space between flights that you're always wondering what to do with), but I do not have pictures, so you will have to trust me when I say that the light was a hideous thing straight out of the 70s.  Anyway, my mom and I tackled it today.  It all started because I bought a "Starry Night" panel from a yard sale.  It was $15 find; a former dorm room piece, a room divider.  I had no idea what I would do with it...I just knew I had to have it.  I mean, it was 15 bucks ($20 actually, but she took $15)  I couldn't let it sit under a horrible light!  It had to go.  We started with the panel.  I unscrewed the very old, weak joints and mounted it on my wall.  I have to say, the thought of it would never have occurred to me, but my mom took one look at this thing and knew.  I let it sit in my foyer for weeks.  I looked at it a hundred times.  Finally, I asked momma...  Here is what we came up with-

After I hung my art (they are doors to a trifold room divider), I took off the awful light fixture cover. The my mom and I stood they and stared at it.  We brainstormed, and my mom mention rice paper.  SOOOO we went to my craft room and started digging.  I ended up using a piece from a wallpaper sample book my girlfriend gave me.  So we fixed that ugliness with a piece of paper!!!   It looks fabulous! See that!?  WEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

THANK YOU MOMMY!!!!!!!!  I really wish I had a before pic...you have nooooo idea what an improvement this is!