A vintage style screen door & a stencil/spackeling technique you wont want to miss

Hello and welcome......Today I am sharing a vintage style screen door that I have crafted from some scraps of wood, some pieces of an old shutter, vinyl spackling  a stencil, paint, and some other décor items I have collected. For some buying old vintage windows , doors and shutters is easy, but in these parts not much around. If there is something of that nature the price will be ridiculous.  Grab a coffee and let me show you a bit.

 

 

This screen door is about 2 ft wide and 6 ft high. It is just for decorative purposes, although it could be made to fit a doorway or long window. I started by gathering some wood from my stash which was 2 pieces about 3"/ 6 ft. long. then 2 more about 2 ft. x 3", then one pine board for the middle about 2ft 3 in.. I constructed all that using my electric screw driver I thought I would add a bit of  fancy so I had some pieces of a shutter that came apart and a metal band so I attached the shutter pieces then the band.

 The next step was to do the vinyl spackling which is very easy this will give the 3-d look to the design on the center board of the door. You will need a scraper ,a small one works best, a stencil of your choice and a tube of spackling it also comes in tiny tubs as well.

 

You can try it out on cardboard if you like. Just place the stencil down take the scraper and fill in the stencil ,once its all filled in scrape the top so it is even then simply lift the stencil off  carefully. And that's it. now you will let it dry to the hardness . This is a good time to get your paint color choices together while your waiting.

 

You will love the results of this process, I also have done this to my plain jane kitchen cabinets that can be viewed at Hometalk or here.

 

Ok now that all is dried your going to need at least 2 color choices . Here I chose black and my all time favorite Vintage blue green , my own made up name seeing I mix it from Opps paints which I have shared in the past.

 

You will want to first paint it the dark base color I used spray on that. Then I took the light color and used it for distressing and the center piece. I just painted the middle piece then took a damp rag and wiped it away gently so that you could see the crevasses on the design.

 

I added a cute flower basket

 

You may want to save your cans!!

Hello...welcome. I have been busy with this "junk " craft. That would mean to me something that I would normally toss in the trash but instead I decided to repurpose it and that would some large tin cans that once had tomato sauce in it.  I left them outdoors for a bit so they could start to rust. Here in SW Florida we are topping off our rainy season with tropical storms everyday. So rust is not a problem.

 Ok here is the tin can in all its ugly beauty.Hey some of us vintage rollin bloggers just love us a bit of rust!! As you can see very rusty. And that's a good thing if we are doing a vintage style project. Soon you will see where I am going with all this.... Give the can a dry painting which means leave some places without paint so you can see the rusty goodness. While that's drying you can make the can embellishments.

 I found this great product from Duck, it is contact chalkboard...just love it!! If you don't have this you can just paint a little chalkboard in the front of the can.

 So now were going to make some burlap flowers , so easy , just cut 3 different size flowers this shape(sm., med. and lg) Get you hot glue gun ready, place the largest on the bottom then the med. and then sm. ...glue them with the hot glue in the center. They should look like the photo below. Get out your button stash and hot glue a pretty button in the middle.

 

 

 This would also make a pretty hostess gift maybe filled with some fall cuttings from your garden.

 I stuffed the can with some Norfolk pine and faux harvest. I also took some green paper ribbon and hot glued around the Chalk board. You can place the burlap flower where ever you see fit. I liked it on the side.

This would make a pretty table centerpiece! You can fill them with whatever you have on hand ! There are many ways to "rust" up recipes so you don't have to wait for the rust to appear it can be forced.

 

So there you have it a very inexpensive way to have something pretty!

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

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A simple piece of furnure can be used as a room divider !

Welcome! so happy you could stop in today........if you visit here you will know that I often change things up a bit not a bit a really lot!. I think its just a challenge for myself  to see what I can do with thrift finds and how one piece of furniture could be used in so many different ways, such as this piece....

 

If you back track posts you will see this piece started as a bakers rack  then a mini kitchen island then a decorative piece in the living room but now its working well as a room divider. The dining room is open to the living room but I kind of like that bit of separating rooms. Where I come from we don't really have the open floor plan. I attached a window type frame that has been closed with chicken wire , it gives some more height.

 

 

Its a great way to give me a reason to decorate another surface. Here are some cow embossed glass bottles filled with some spring flowers. I found the vintage cherry tablecloth at the thrift store.

 

This cute little apple lamp was also a thrift find and it throws off just a hint of brightness for dining.

 

 

I also tried some apples in the vintage tool box and a white platter, I love apples all year through it doesn't have to be Fall for that!

 

 

You have seen my Counrty Door shutters in many places too , today I have placed them in the living room exit doorway that leads to the kitchen.

 

 

I have attached a semi sheer curtain to the back of the shutter. I have had more fun decorating with theses shutters and the price is very reasonable . I am scanning the online catalogue for some more pretty shutters. I am looking forward to finding some more treasures ! Have a great weekend friends!