Have you learnt what my absolute favourite form of undertaking is to do? It’s the initiatives that require a whole lot (or generally over a thousand) little items of wooden pieced collectively to create one thing lovely.
Okay, I understand magnificence is within the eye of the beholder, however to my eye, I actually do assume there’s magnificence in repetition. I’ve three examples of this in our residence in the intervening time.
The second instance is my colorful pinwheel art 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 massive “pixel” art 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 paintings at present hangs on the wall of our music room.
I like engaged on initiatives like this. I don’t know why, however the extra items there are, the extra satisfying I discover them to be.
Effectively, I’ve began one other one, and this time it’s not a furnishings piece or a chunk of paintings. It’s one thing I’m making use of on to the wall of the studio lavatory.
So let me again up only a bit. For those who’ll bear in mind, I had selected utilizing a easy white tile to exchange the yellow accent tiles within the studio lavatory wainscoting. I used to be uninterested in this yellow, and because the wall design goes away, these yellow tiles wanted to be swapped out as properly…
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 area on the wainscoting and backsplash.
Effectively, it seems that rectangle white tiles don’t go together with the whole lot. No less than, 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 sequence of squares. A few of you precisely mentioned it appears like a wall coated in paint swatches. I believe that’s correct, and what might be higher than partitions coated in paint swatches for a enjoyable, colourful studio?
However having the partitions coated in squares, after which including rectangles to the wainscoting/backsplash didn’t enchantment to me within the least. The wallpaper is ordered (and shipped at the moment!), so my thoughts is about on that. That signifies that I wanted a brand new wainscoting accent concept.
Penny tile? No, that appeared too…properly, I don’t even know. Predictable? Elementary? (A room filled with squares and circles? Looks as if one thing that’s good for daycare, however not for my studio lavatory.) I saved pondering that one thing actually skinny can be good, like a pencil tile. However doing your complete perimeter in pencil tile, even for my very small lavatory, can be fairly costly. Plus, I used to be within the temper for some fast gratification, so the very last thing I needed was to have to look on-line, order samples, wait on samples, check out samples. You get the purpose.
So I headed to Residence Depot to see what I may discover. Effectively, 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 reducing them into 6-inch items. After which I began gluing.
And I glued, and glued, and glued some extra…
I understand that the present wall design is fairly distracting, so that you’ll have to make use of your artistic eyes to look previous that. And also you’ll additionally need to 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 lower, and I obtained about half of them sanded and utilized to the wall. I nonetheless must sand the opposite half and get them on the wall.
As soon as that’s completed, I’ll in all probability 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, and I believe it’s an awesome cut price at simply round $100 to go round the entire room! I additionally understand 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 an alternative 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 achieved! And because the wallpaper shipped at the moment, I’m hoping meaning I’ll get it by the top of the day tomorrow, and I can set up it this weekend. It might be so encouraging to truly get this little room achieved 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 beautify 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 can learn more about me here.
