Intromission: Wooden Rainbow Wall Art

If you endure in an upstairs flat, you know that it is difficult to make a carpentry workshop. Although I would like to knead more with wood, I can't because I assume't have a spot to set up a workshop. The truth is that I am still an amateur, I have a couple of projects that require woodworking skills so I did not buy many and expensive tools, I always invite the help of a craftsmen. However, in this article I would like to show how you could make a special looking piece of wooden decor, very cheap and only with a couple of tools.

The idea for this wall art came to me aside looking on etsy.com, if you do a search for 'awkward wall art' you will date what I am talking most. I was also inspired by some canvases that show photos of cubes of different high artificial in different colours. But I deprivation you to pay care to ace thing: deal the prices! Ouch! They are not exactly low.

So let's see how to make something beautiful and inexpensive with our hands :)

Step 1: Materials and Tools

Necessary materials:

  • The support on which I glued the cubes. I used a piece of natural MDF of 450x450mm and a thickness of 4mm that I had unexhausted from another project;
  • Wooden cubes of 30x30x30mm. I used about 105 cubes which I cut as follows : more or less 35 pieces in three and 50 pieces in cardinal parts, and 20 uncut cubes so the result was well-nig 225 pieces that leave be misused to cover the all piece of MDF.
  • Gingery stain. I ordered sevener colours, rainbow colors, ready mixed, like these for example, but in that location are a lot of videos on youtube where you can see how to gain colorful stain aside mixing different paints with mean stain;
  • Woods adhesive. I put-upon a special adhesive for wood, of good quality, I Don River't want my wall interior decoration to founder separate after a while :)
  • Kit for dependent picture frames, of course it depends on what weight the net product has, I used a piece of wood cube wish the ones I used for the wall artistic production and a screw hook as in the photo above.

Tools:

As I said, I oriented myself so as to use As few tools as viable in carrying out this project, thus I ordered online a cheap set of miter joint box with a backsaw, so that I could wee-wee the cuttings and both clamps to help fix the cubes in the mitre box. I as wel utilized things I had in the house anyway: sandpaper, brushes.

Step 2: The Making Process

The hardest and most time consuming part is to cut the cubes. You may be inquisitive why this surgical procedure was so necessary. The truth is that there are several possibilities for making this decor that we can think of. For instance, you could cut the cubes only in half, merely so of course of study a larger turn of cubes is needed. Surgery you could consumption cubes of various sizes, for example 15x15x15mm and 30x30x30mm, more cubes are needed but no need for cutting and the wall decor could look like in the image below (with random cube and color arrangement).

However, minimizing the expenses substance increasing the physical effort :)

So I started cutting the cubes. I didn't put to a fault much emphasis on respecting dimensions or correctly angles, I really liked this random look after cutting, but or else I was careful to dilute IT along the Wood fibers so that the surface of the cube that would be viewable had a texture American Samoa beautiful as possible.

And then I proceeded to George Sand the surfaces that would be tiled with peach-colored tarnish. I paid special attention to the surface that would atomic number 4 visible, Eastern Samoa I told you I wanted the wood pattern to be as circumpolar A contingent.

I divided the sequent pieces into seven groups and painted them with the seven colors of the rainbow. If required I would have particoloured in several layers but to my joy flush after the first base layer the colors were beautiful.

Withal, I had a gnomish problem with the orange. The color I wanted to use does not look real orange but preferably brown.

So I mixed yellow with a little red and it turned out a very nice color in.

I ordered past the colored pieces next to each other according to the model I wanted.

I then started to put and glue the pieces to the support (My niece helped me to color and glue the pieces of wood ?).

You can lookout man all these operations in the video below.

You can also take note how I fixed the wood piece with the screw swipe to the MDF support.

Measure 3: In the Ending

At the beginning of the article I inserted some golf links most the materials and tools that can be secondhand but I ordered them online, in my country, from opposite online stores, and you stool range at much better prices in your country too. However, to give you an idea, I present my price list below:

  • Wooden cubes 105 pcs - $25
  • MDF board 1pc - $4.3
  • Colored stain, set of 7 colors - $10
  • Wood glue - $3.5
  • Saw set + package - $10

A total of $53, not excessively atrocious 😊.

There is not much to be added, I think that my wall up decor came out excellent and I am very satisfied with the end result, information technology was definitely worth the effort.

I hope you same information technology too and you will take over and far develop my idea. As always, I look overbold to your questions and opinions.

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