Door mural front and back

I don't have a how to for this since it was all don't free hand and my insiration from multiple pictures, the first picture is of the main floor, the second is the back side of the door. I just wanted to share.
This took me about a week to complete

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This door was a flat hollow door with a couple holes in it I repaired with wood putty, put on a base coat then went o town with the painting. I did use contact paper for the deer and bear so that I would have an outline of them. The second picture is a stairway to a no longer existing cabin (in my mind)

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I used modge podge to seal it and it just didn't seal well enough so I used a water based poly over it and now it is much easier to keep clean and is sealed better

Material I used for this project:

• Acrylic pants, various colors
• minwax polyurethane water based

Camouflaging Visible Wires

We have visible wires that I wanted to camouflage It is an old farm house and all planks so there are no hollow walls to hide anything.

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I painted the wires and molding using a dark brown I had but I used a soft touch so they weren't solid brown but kind of streaky to make them look like vines.
I printed some leaves from the internet to use as a pattern, for some reason I couldn't draw these right.
I cut the pattern from cardboard and traced them using a pencil onto the wall
I just did some shading with green, yellow, brown and a little red to make the leaves
The grapes were really easy to do, I saw online a simple way to do this. You use a round sponge spouncer (ones used for stencils) I mixed my colors for the grapes using red and blue. Dip most of the spouncer into the purple color then on one edge you dip that in white. place the spouncer on the wall and give it a quarter twist and you have a nice round grape with shading :)

Materials I used for this project:

• Heavy weight acrylics 
• Dark brown paint 
• Sponge Spouncer for stencils  

Forest room hand painted

I started this because I wanted to make my sewing room look different and I want an outdoor view inside, this picture is before I did the doorways. I made the entire room full of hand painted trees, no stencils, I did it all with an artistic vision

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I just wanted soemthing different, sorry no tutorial since i did this on the spur of the moment and just kept going until the room was filled with trees. The first picture show a waterfall, it isn't perfect but it looks neat.

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This doorway had to be done with faux wood grain since the wood was pine and had very little definition

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This is what the top of the trees look like

Material I used for this project:

• Acrylic paints, various colors but they were the heavy weight  

Camouflaged damage on screen door

This screen door was kicked in at one time and had some dents in it, plus it had rust at the bottom but it is a special size so we can't afford a new one right now

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Hubby and I fixed the rusted area at the bottom. I used a rust reformer on it before using any paint.
I sanded the door, primed it then taped everything off and spray painted the door white (I painted the trim too so it would match)
I printed a tree and some cat and a dog picture from the internet and made my own stencil using contact paper, placed that on the door sticky side so it would stay in place.
I then used spray paint to paint around the stencil then picked up some golden rod weeds to hold in place and spray paint to create a border around it. Then I pealed off the contact paper to reveal the design.
I wish now I would have not been so heavy handed and would have made the spray lighter but it looks better than originally and hides the damage to the door.

Materials I used for this project:

• Primer  
• Rust reformer  
• White and brown spray paint  

Nasty tables turned into a lovely cat tree

This is similar to the tables I got, I didn't take a before picture, they were solid wood but had a mildewy, moldy smell to them and I almost burned them after about a month but I persevered and made a cat tree out of them.

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I had to clean the tables, I wiped them down with soap and water and a rag first, let them dry and they stunk bad. I wiped them down with bleach water, dried, wiped them down with pinesol water then dried, wiped them down, put baking soda in them, put, carpet freshner in them, let them sit ourside under the porch for weeks and they still smelled. Finally after a month or more sitting out I mixed up some water with those scent crystals for laudry and wiped them down again and you know the smell went away. I waited a week and they still smelled good so I started sanding and painting.

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I sanded them primed everything, spray painted the inside then the outside masking along the way to separate the colors. Hand painted designs inside and out, used stencils. (I think I went a little overboard on the stencils though) I spray painted using weeds for a muted design on some of it. We used metal braces to attach them and used part of an old cat tree we had torn apart plus wood boards for shelves with carpet. I made the pillows myself with foam and batting plus made the covers for them.

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My cat couldn't wait for the finished design and had to use it right away

Plain blinds glammed

I had plain blinds in my computer room and I saw where someone painted theirs so I made my own patterns using masking tape

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I laid the blinds on a table and unrolled most of the way but not entirely. I made my patterns using masking tape, I used the wider tape so I could rip the edges to make them uneven so the trees wouldn't be all straight. I made the trunks using multiple pieces of tape and the branches were just small pieces cut and ripped until I got the pattern all over the blinds. The birds I laid the tape on my work table (multiple pieces) trace a pattern then cut out and taped it to the blind

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I then took them outside and first sprayed with a yellow paint then I used an orange paint over top so there would be a little variation and look sort of like a sunset. After the paint set up (only took a few minutes) I removed the tape and let the paint dry before hanging them. It has been well over a year and the paint still looks great. These were the heavy duty blinds (room darkening)

Materials I used for this project:

• Rustolium spray paint in yellow and orange  
• Masking tape

My basement door redesigned

This is the before picture when I was sanding the door to prepare it for paint
This took me about 4 days to complete with sanding, prep and painting

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First the outside of the door then the inside

1-First I sanded the entire door to remove the gloss
2- painted it with 123 primer to give good adhesion for the paint
3-Painted the lines (which was not a good thing next time I will paint the whole door black then do the graining
4- made board lines using masking tape (1/8")
5- used a brown color paint and a wood graining tool to make a faux wood grain on the door
6- used a grey and did a dry brush over the door to give more depth
7- I added a tiny bit of light green to the door also, dry brushing
8- I removed the tape and then touched up the black lines.
9- I then used a gloss polyurethane to seal the door

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This is the finished outside door, I love it

Now the inside of the door

1-First I sanded the entire door to remove the gloss
2- painted it with 123 primer to give good adhesion for the paint
3- made board lines using masking tape (1/4")
4- used a tan color paint and a wood graining tool to make a faux wood grain on the door
5- used a darker brown and did a dry brush over the door to give more depth and to make the door just a little darker
6- mixed some acrylic grey paint, used a little red and as I was painting these on I would use my fingers to smudge the paint, just put some random light streaks inside the boards
7- I removed the tape and then painted the black lines but the next time I do this I will paint the black lines first then put the tape on because I had a hard time making the lines straight and not getting them too wide.
8- painted the hinges black
8- I then used a gloss polyurethane to seal the door and the hinges too

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This is the finished door, I am so pleased with it

Materials I used for this project:

• Latex paints- tan, brown  
• Wood graining tool  
• Acrylic paints- white, red, black  
• Gloss oil based polyurethane 
• 1/4" masking tape 

 My closet door remake

I had a damaged door and wanted to make it look new again but add character in the process

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This is what my door looked like before I started, I wish now I would have taken pictures along the way but I didn't

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This is my finished door. Hubby took it off the hinges and we put it on a work table.
1- I sanded the door
2- made lines for the boards using a sharpy and a straight edge
3- placed 1/8 inch tape over these lines
4- Used marque white paint from home depot and a wood grain tool to make wood grain on the sanded door (no primer coat)
5- after that dried I started by dry brushing a brown paint over the entire door following the direction of my boards. I used a very light hand with this and would use a paper plate to remove the excess from my brush so it wouldn't get too dark.
6- I then added some grey dry brushing here and there and also a little green mixed with some brown and black (I have some green colors in the bedroom)
7- I had some thin wood plant stakes that i cut to size to make faux hinges, spray painted them black
8- sealed the door with water based polyurethane
9- used a hot glue gun to glue the faux hinges onto the door
We live in an old farm house so this type of door is very fitting
PS the horse picture is an oil painting I did years ago

Materials I used for this project:

• White paint (marque) latex 
• Medium dark brown paint latex  
• Heavy weight acrylic artist paints 
• Wood graining tool 
• 1/8 inch masking tape