Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » diy project: kate’s mirror stenci. This third project using paint is good for people who like to change their house around a lot. these mirror stencil designs are easy to put on and take off, and they leave no marks on the mirror so you can change the design over and over again. if you have any contact paper left over from the window film project, you can put it to good use on this one! Happy crafting! – kate CLICK HERE for the full instructions after the jump! What You’ll Need: 1. contact paper (found in drugstores and hardware stores, used for lining kitchen drawers, etc. get the clear kind) 2. exacto knife and sharp blades. 3. marker 4. paint (house paint or acrylic paint ill work) 5. mini foam roller 6. mirror (or glass) Instructions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Note: the blade does not cut the glass, so you should have no permanent marks on the mirror. if you are unhappy with your design or want to change it down the road, simply scrape off the paint with a paint scraper or straight blade and wipe the glass with glass cleaner. Do-It-Yourself Vinyl Wall Art | FaveCraftsBlog. You know how you keep meaning to paint the wall or put up a frame or buy some gorgeous batik? Well, forget about it. I’m begging you. Instead, you should just hop on over to your local hardware store and drop the insane amount of $6 to $8 on a few yards of vinyl, self-adhesive ConTact paper in different colors. Where exactly am I going with this? You may have noticed that swanky home-furnishings and interior-design stores are peddling pre-cut vinyl wall-art designs at insane prices, as if they take the skill of César Pelli to create.
What You Need: Paper and pen A black marker Scissors Several yards of ConTact paper A free wall First, get your paper and pen and draw a rough sketch of what you’d like your finished design to look like. Then grab your ConTact paper and draw your design freehand on the wrong side of the paper (the side with writing on it). Hopefully you don’t have these kinds of distractions in your life: When you finish drawing your design, cut it out. There. Whew! Rain Gutter Bookshelves | Apartment Therapy Ohdeedoh.
Fork Wall Hooks! Rain Gutter Book Shelves Tutorial. I have seen these rain gutter bookshelves several places online and have always thought they would be wonderful to have in our book loving home. Then I saw them at my friend Heather’s house, asked if she liked them, how easy they were to clean, etc. and I finally decided to take the plunge. The theory behind these rain gutter book shelves is that they encourage children to read more because they can see the fronts of the books and are intrigued, rather than just seeing the edge of the book and not being able to tell what it is about.
Our children have always read a lot, but the little ones are reading even more since we installed these shelves. The first day that the shelves were in, my two year old, upon waking from his nap, grabbed a book and came running out asking me to read it to him. All the children are reading more of our books and several of the older ones were heard saying, “Oh, I forgot we had that book, it’s one of my favorites” about a book that had Items needed: 1. 2. 3. 4.