Raised Stencils on a Simple Metal Door...

 

Have you ever had the inclination to do something different?
To "doll" something up a bit?
To add a feature ~ add some bling?

Well, here's a neat idea to add something to something, for mere pennies and a bit of extra time. And, it's fun. And, if you don't like it, it's easy to scrape it off, wipe it down and start again~!

I've never tried this with "Gel Medium," or "Spackle Medium," or any of the other application process'. I've only done this with "Joint Compound." Mainly, because I usually have a little bucket of it in the cupboard for minor fixes and such, so why go out in search of something else to use, when I've had great success with the joint compound...

You just hold a stencil to the surface you would like to embellish. Use a small trowel (I prefer the plastic ones) to trowel a bit of joint compound over the stencil. Remove the stencil while the joint compound is wet "carefully" and let it dry. When it's dry, you can use a bit of sand paper to sand it down smoother, if you wish. Just sand with a soft touch.

It's not hard to add a raised stencil, it's easy. And, in the end, you can change the whole look of something with a couple moments of your time...

Want to know more?
Click on "Read More" below...

Laundry Room ~ Back Porch Makeover...

Here we go...

It looks beautiful finished... 
But oh, dear God ~ What a project it was in the begining...

What I had to start with was a "half-finished" sort of managerie...

See, my better half had 'half' finished this place before he moved in with me and well, it just never got completed...



As some know, I am the worlds cheapest, cheap-skate~!

I enjoy spending my pennies on furniture and embelishments for my homes. So, with that in mind, I had some peach paneling in the laundry area... I had some 'unfinshed' drywall areas, some finished and painted areas and some big leaks in the roof~ yikes!

The man child must have had an obsession with 'peach' at some point in the past.

Various & multiple shades of peach, by-the-way, all over this house~! 

I HATE peach... lol

Of course, the money went into shingling above the room and repairing the leaks, so I was left with a very tight budget for this room. Whenever there's a tightening of the purse strings, I dig out my supplies, lay them out and make do.... Yes, I still had rolls and rolls of paper from the living room leather redo, so I devised a plot and a plan to cover the whole porch ~ the painted areas, the paneling, the unfinished drywall... Why finish it with joint compound, or italian plasters, when I could get the same effect with cheap paper~!

I only had enough joint compound in my stash to fill in the paneling cracks and unlevel areas between half-finished wall treatments. And, I am way too lazy to run to the store. This is a rural area and running to town is 17 miles round trip. For joint compound?

I think not~!

So we began, with what we had and plotted accordingly...

We = me and my multiple personalities, of course~!