These Miniature Barn Doors Are Hiding Something
by
Michelle Leslie
(IC: blogger)
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Can you guess what it is? It's something we all have in our homes..........
These little statues know.
It's a boring old wall socket ;-)
The barn doors were made with long ice cream sticks, a skewer, some screw eye hooks, paint, scissors and wood glue.
To make the barn doors we measured the height of the wall plug, added 2 cm (7/8″) and cut the ice cream sticks using scissors. In South Africa our wall plugs are 13 cm high so we cut the ice cream sticks to be 15 cm long.
The sticks were painted and glued to suit our decor and the screw eye hooks were added at the top. Then we slid the skewer through the eye hooks and added a block of wood on either end.
And our miniature barn doors were ready to be hung.
We made a ton of these over the festive season as gifts for our friends and they were a huge hit. I'd love to know what you think. Do you also try hide your wall sockets?
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Suggested materials:
- Ice cream sticks
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Published January 9th, 2017 5:38 AM
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Miss Denise on Aug 06, 2019
Ha ha!! just love it!
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Mary McDonald on Sep 15, 2019
Just. So. Cute!
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What did you use to cut the sticks? I love this idea! Great job!
These are so cute i love them and what a clever idea. Xx