What's a low cost decorative treatment for my new plywood porch walls?
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I'd like something arty, thinking decoupage or music manuscript etc but have to allow for water damage should the vinyl blinds not get closed in time in a rain storm. I dont want to sand heavily because the ply is tanalised and I dont want to breathe in the dust.
My ply walls. Ive used copper head nails so they will peep through anything I put on the walls. There are vinyl blinds on the outside so it may not be totally water tight, they're new and so far untested in a big storm.
a colored wood stain like unicorn spit? Comes in a variety of colors. How about corrugated tin sheets ? Just seal with polyurethane? Idk just some thoughts....
assuming you are taking down the other things I would get a old window and make it a stained glass piece.
Take brown paper and tear it into irregular shapes. You can use brown paper bags or if you can not find enough buy that roll of paper from Lowes or Menards you use to cover the flowers when you are painting or doing work on your house. Since you will need to prime anyway, take your primer and paint a 2 foot by 2 foot sqaure. Start in the corner. Take your first irregular square and put it on the painted surface. Smooth out. repeat. After it has set a bit go back and paint over the paper over lapping and trying to keep the torn paper flat. Besure to take your time and make things irregular . After it is all done you then go back and paint the color of your choice. When that is dry put an glaze on it that can be a color darker slightly then your first shade. I comes out looking like you have leather walls.
i should have done the long window with a stained glass effect, you're right. I could still do it actually as I need to reputty the window and could take the glass out. Thanks!
Yes I agree Stain glass look window ( You can buy Stained Glass Clings) and Plain Coloured Walls to show off your things, otherwise could look too cluttered.
I "wallpapered" my son's room using muslin I had dyed and stamped with fabric paint. Once the fabric ( which I cut to size) dried, I soaked it in a water/ starch solution ( you can google the ratio) and put it on the wall smoothing it out as I went along. When you want to get rid of it you spray it heavily with clean wate, peel it off and clean off the starch residue. Start with primed walls.
i love this idea, it would look like scrim which would go with my colonial NZ theme.
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