Bricks

our kitchen before

our kitchen after creating a stencil to make it look like a brick facade

Damask

I was exhaustedly looking for a damask stencil for my living room, and when none could be found, I found this trinket box at a Hobby Lobby store, took it to a local copy shop and had a photo copy of the box enlarged.  

I used 2 large blank stencils to trace the design and a hot tool to cut it out.

I used an interior glaze without tint and a stencil brush to apply it.

It is quite subtle and is barely noticeable from some angles.  I didn't continue the design because I really wanted a higher gloss, but accented with the 2 frames, it works for us.

Whittaker's Room

This is the Dwell crib bedding we ordered for our first born in 2005, most of their designs are inspired from vintage wallpaper designs.

I used a swatch from the website to to print a photograph and then enlarged it to the size

that I wanted for the wall stencil that I made by tracing the pattern, one for the leaves and one of the stem.

The circles I painted by using a plastic potting tray from the Home Depot, held it against the wall and traced the circle and then painted it using acrylic paint for the mushroom and blue and leftover interior paint from our living room for the dark brown.