Hiding a Circuit Breaker Box in Plain Sight

Patty Anderson
by Patty Anderson
1 Material
2 Days
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You all have been such an inspiration to me; from helping me realize my dream of paneling my walls, to putting sparkle in my windows! So it just stands to reason, that as I stare at my mundane circuit breaker box, several projects posted on this site have "blossomed" in my mind, to form a plan on camouflaging this eyesore. Let's talk paint, pine cones and twigs!
Now that the wall panels are up and the windows trimmed and sparkly, what to do with this........box?icon
Well! There were several wonderful posts on how to make these neat flowers out of pine cones! So I sat down to glue magnets on the base of each half a cone, and paint them! Doing crafts is like attending a class on Sanity 101! icon
Then there was other posts that used twigs, twigs, mind you! To create wreaths and such. So I figured flowers needed stems. Went outside to collect "kindling" for this picture in my mind......and glued twigs together with a magnet or two underneath.
Flower stems usually have some form of bushy growth at their base, so I glued more twigs on magnets, creating little "tussocks", if you will!
I took my stem and tussocks outside and gathered some spray paint together. Let's see, green for the stem, and some colors for the tussocks. This was fun! icon
I placed my "flower garden" on the breaker box! It looked.....good, yes, well, but......it needed more. All righty, then!
I took the paint I bought for the ceiling and trim, and the door, and painted that breaker box! And, you all have seen those projects where folk use feathers to create veins and highlights on a painted surface? Well, I had this buzzard's feather......icon
Ta-Da! Now my flower garden has a lovely background, and the grey circuit breaker box is camouflaged! High five! icon
Suggested materials:
  • Twigs, pine cones glue gun and magnets and left over paint,   (all from home!)
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