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Are you aware what my absolute favourite sort of mission is to do? It’s the tasks that require lots of (or generally over a thousand) little items of wooden pieced collectively to create one thing lovely.
Okay, I notice magnificence is within the eye of the beholder, however to my eye, I actually do suppose there’s magnificence in repetition. I’ve three examples of this in our residence in the intervening time.
The second instance is my colourful pinwheel artwork that I made out of over 800 wooden tasting spoons. That is my favourite piece of wall artwork that I’ve made to this point. It at present hangs in our front room.
And the third merchandise is the large “pixel” artwork that I made out of 1600 wooden button plugs (the little wooden items which can be used to cowl over screw holes in wooden furnishings).
That massive piece of art work at present hangs on the wall of our music room.
I like engaged on tasks like this. I don’t know why, however the extra items there are, the extra satisfying I discover them to be.
Nicely, I’ve began one other one, and this time it’s not a furnishings piece or a bit of art work. It’s one thing I’m making use of on to the wall of the studio toilet.
So let me again up only a bit. For those who’ll bear in mind, I had selected utilizing a easy white tile to switch the yellow accent tiles within the studio toilet wainscoting. I used to be bored with this yellow, and for the reason that wall design goes away, these yellow tiles wanted to be swapped out as nicely…
And since I couldn’t resolve on a wall design, I figured that white tiles would go together with just about something. So I obtained these easy white tiles and deliberate to chop them down to suit the 6-inch-high accent house on the wainscoting and backsplash.
Nicely, it seems that rectangle white tiles don’t go together with every thing. A minimum of, in my thoughts, they don’t.
I lastly determined what to do on the partitions. I made a decision to make a brand new wallpaper that coordinates with the floral within the studio, and that new wallpaper is only a collection of squares. A few of you precisely stated it appears to be like like a wall lined in paint swatches. I believe that’s correct, and what could possibly be higher than partitions lined in paint swatches for a enjoyable, colourful studio?
However having the partitions lined in squares, after which including rectangles to the wainscoting/backsplash didn’t attraction to me within the least. The wallpaper is ordered (and shipped right now!), so my thoughts is about on that. That signifies that I wanted a brand new wainscoting accent concept.
Penny tile? No, that appeared too…nicely, I don’t even know. Predictable? Elementary? (A room filled with squares and circles? Looks like one thing that’s excellent for daycare, however not for my studio toilet.) I stored pondering that one thing actually skinny could be excellent, like a pencil tile. However doing the whole perimeter in pencil tile, even for my very small toilet, could be fairly costly. Plus, I used to be within the temper for some rapid gratification, so the very last thing I needed was to have to look on-line, order samples, wait on samples, take a look at out samples. You get the purpose.
So I headed to Residence Depot to see what I might discover. Nicely, I discovered one thing! Dowel rods! I did some fast calculations, purchased ninety 48-inch-long 3/8-inch dowel rods (at simply over $1 every), and introduced them residence and began slicing them into 6-inch items. After which I began gluing.
And I glued, and glued, and glued some extra…
I notice that the present wall design is fairly distracting, so that you’ll have to make use of your inventive eyes to look previous that. And also you’ll additionally must think about the dowel rods (we’ll name it a reed backsplash to sound fancy) painted to match the wainscoting. However I like the feel they add! And I believe it’s a pleasant juxtaposition to the (future) sq. design for the partitions.
I obtained all of them reduce, and I obtained about half of them sanded and utilized to the wall. I nonetheless have to sand the opposite half and get them on the wall.
As soon as that’s completed, I’ll most likely paint them first, after which add the trim to the underside. I don’t like how they stick out previous the trim, so I’ll be including one other layer of a really small trim in order that the dowel rods (umm, I imply, the reed accent 😀 ) is recessed and doesn’t stick out past the trim.
I actually love how this appears to be like, and I believe it’s a terrific cut price at simply round $100 to go round the entire room! I additionally notice that Future Kristi could also be cursing me for utilizing a reed accent round a sink and having them go all the way in which to the countertop as a substitute of placing a stable piece of trim horizontally across the countertop first, however I don’t care. She will take care of that. 😀 For now, I’m simply excited to get this executed! And for the reason that wallpaper shipped right now, I’m hoping which means I’ll get it by the tip of the day tomorrow, and I can set up it this weekend. It could be so encouraging to really get this little room executed and have one thing within the studio completed!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
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