I wanted to create something fun for the living room that was colorful,
sweet and cheap. I believe I accomplished all of the above with this piece. I
took some scrap wood, spray painted it red and added a decal. The wood was free, the decal cost 97 cents at
Wal-mart and the spray paint was $1.57.
You could do a more neutral color, depending on your décor. My living room is beige with white furniture
and hardwood floors so I went with the red so that it would pop. You wouldn’t want to do too dark of a paint
or the decal won’t show up very well.
This could’ve been a little lighter but I think it still works. And again, not bad for a project under $3
that took about 20 minutes, including time for paint to dry. This was very easy and I think it will be a
great compliment to our living room.
The other project on wood didn’t turn out as well. I took a board and painted it blue. Once that dried I added stickers to spell out
dream, love, believe. I painted over
that with white paint. In my head the
white paint wouldn’t run and the stickers would peel off perfectly. This was not the case in reality. First I tried taking off the stickers when
the white paint was still a little wet.
That was a total debacle.
Then I waited until it dried and tried to take them off but they were a
bit stuck to the board at this point.
This would work okay on a mantle or in a child’s room. I’m saying childs room because people might
think a child made it. Next time I may
try to stencil the words or use a decal instead. It didn’t come out as wonderful as I thought
it would, but for under $2 it’s not a
bad piece.
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