DIY Wood Signs | Front Door DecorPosted by Gould Kondrup on June 3rd, 2021 Happy Sunday, My Beautiful YouTube family. Today, I'm going to be walking you through a pallet project. This is from an old DIY that I did I'm gon na upcycle it and turn it into some signage. For my front door. I will also walk through what tools you can use for this project or what you can supplement. If you don't have them. I have shown you how to break down a pallet before when I actually made a dog bed for this little dog right here, and you can watch that if you want a more in-depth explanation now, you can break this down a ton of ways. I'Ve linked a couple of ways down below. If you don't have a sawzall like I do, but what I am going to use is my Rio V wireless sawzall, with a pretty gnarly blade on the end I'm gon na grab my gloves and my goggles for safety. Then I just took my sawzall and I ran it wherever those nails were to just cut through them versus like hammering and tearing apart the board. Just repeat that until all the pieces are free with the nails - and you have the wood that you need - you don't really want to deal with wood when it's rough around the edges. So I have a wireless orbital sander that I use, but you can use a sanding pad in some sandpaper that you can pick up at your local hardware store if you don't have access to a power sander the project on the right, I'm just using two skinny Pallet pieces that I just sanded down, I did not cut them the project on the left. I just cut down those pallet pieces in half with my table saw, but you can use a hands off. You don't have that available. Once you put your pieces together, how you like them, that's gon na be the front of your sign that you're gon na paint on so flip the pieces over. Resources have so much scrap wood in my workshop that I had two pieces that fit perfectly. But if you don't just cut down some skinnier pieces of wood that fit the width of your sign and your newsa as support you're, gon na add some wood glue to each of those little pieces that are gon na, be supporting it and then we're gon na Hammer those on in I do not have clamps, so I always find things around my workshop that could be used as weights when I'm gluing something down. I let those pieces dry a little bit and then I grab my hammer and my box and nails. If you don't work with nails that often I do recommend grabbing a box like this, that just has a variety of them even pushpins, because you have all the sizes right there available versus going to the hardware store a million one times find the nail link that Works best for your project and it doesn't go all the way through to the front and then just hammer those smaller pieces into the back of the wood to secure it all together. Now that those two signs are put together, I'm gon na go ahead and stain them. My favorite dark walnut stain, but you can leave them as is or paint them. It'S totally up to you. I am just using a foam brush that I've got at Michael's to apply the stain to both of the signs. You guys have seen me use this day in a million and one times, but I truly just love how the white is gon na pop off of this dark wood stain for both of these projects. You'Re gon na need just white craft paint or whatever color and some paintbrushes for the skinnier welcome sign. I had these cutouts that I've had for years from Michael, so I decided just to lay them out on the sign and trace them. So I had some crisp. Writing you can freehand this, but since I had these on hand, I'm just gon na space them out appropriately and then trace them with my pencil. Now that you trace those, you just got to fill them in with whatever kind of paint color that you'd like [, Music ]. It looks super cute, as is, but I did want to add just a little bit extra detail and you know I love me. Some roburt wine, so I just added that to the top and bottom by randomly tying it on it. [ Music ], because I do not have good handwriting. I designed a quote. This has come in and cozy up which you can actually download on my patreon page, which is linked down below, and I'm gon na use my good old handy-dandy transfer paper to make sure it comes out crisp and clean. I put the chalk side transfer paper down onto the actual sign and then I put the quote directly on top of that transfer paper and then you tape it down. So it doesn't move and just trace your quote. If you don't want to order transfer paper, you can actually just rub pencil on the back of the paper that the quote is on and then do the same thing and it should come out not as clean as this. But you'll have a rough outline that you can follow. I am going to spare you the b-roll of me painting. You know the deal by now, you're just gon na fill that in with whatever kind of color you want. I love how this turned out and I also love that I can move it in noir or outdoor, but I am gon na use both of these signs for some front door. Decor. I think if I ever make another welcome, sign. I'M gon na double the length of it cuz. That'S what really would fit our front door since our front door is rather large. I also just realized that now two things on my front door say welcome. So that's a little awkward. I need to find a new doormat, but regardless of the little hiccups that I now see, I hope that you guys enjoyed this DIY wood sign tutorial and give it a thumbs up. If you did, I hope that you guys are having a fabulous weekend and I will see you Wednesday for another DIY, [, Music, ],Like it? Share it! |