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Art made from wood floor boards.

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I’ve been promising pictures of my bedroom makeover for weeks now. I’m waiting on a couple of final touches to arrive in the mail that I’m hoping will give the room some BAM(!) before I reveal everything. I am however, going to give you a little sneak peak on one of the wall hanging projects we did.

I have a new/old dresser in my newly made-over bedroom. Above it was one big blank wall that needed something. If I had my druthers I would have a big, architectural mirror or an original piece of art. Since neither one of those things were in the budget I had to put my thinking cap on.

I saw this piece of art on Pottery Barn’s website (which seems to no longer be for sale). Hmmm…Could I do something like that? Let’s see.
For the past 1 1/2 years these left over hardwood floor boards have lived under our bed.


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We dusted them off and glued them together.

I was inspired by these two pictures of Joshua trees.


I bought some self-adhesive shelf liner from Walmart for under $5.00 and covered the glued together boards with it. (By the way, the total cost for this project ended up costing under $5.00 because everything used was stuff laying around the house. I only had to buy the shelf liner paper…score!)


I then copied my selected picture on to a transparency and shot it on my boards.

With the help of a Sharpie marker I traced the image on to the shelf liner paper stuck on my boards.

Those most time consuming part was taking an Exacto knife to the shelf liner paper to cut out the image. I then removed the negative space away from the image.


Next, primed and painted over the entire thing.


While the paint was still tacky, I pulled off all the shelf liner paper.

Here is the end result. My Joshua Tree. I love it. It looks much better at it’s new home on the wall.

Final reveal of it above my dresser next week.

*Brought to you by: Prosource Flooring, Written by myself.*

 

 

Comments

  2. I agree with Haydee, you even have a projector! WHAT IN THE WORLD! 🙂 that’s awesome girl. I love the Joshua tree!

  6. good job! that looks fab! I couldnt help but notice the cute wallpaper you scored for your computer room…ive been looking everywhere for some decent looking paper..where did you get that??

  8. Pretty impressive…Isn’t it fun to work on projects? Especally when they turn out so well. I’m still trying to get one of mine to turn out…I’ll keep trying.

  9. I never thought of using a projector? Result was simply amazing. Nice work on both the mirror and the tree. I love checking in to see what’s new. Its like checking in with Yahoo to see what the stock market is doing!! Keep it up. Your work is motivational.

  11. Michelle you are amazing! Not sure if you remember who I am, but we were at BYUH together. Our hubby’s were roommates! Found your blog off of Kristen Kennerely’s and am so glad I did. You have some true talent. Love all the wonderful projects you have done! So excited to see what your bedroom looks like! You are truly inspiring!

  16. Do you mind sharing what kind of flooring you have in your house? I love the warm color of the wood.

    Great project by the way and I can’t wait for the big reveal.

  18. Amazing use of things around the home!! I thought it was pretty cool that you have an overhead at your house. 😉

  25. I LOVE THIS! I saw it on your bedroom reveal before I saw it on your DIY and I was just thinking I could totally do that, I am so glad you posted directions! I can not wait to try this!! PS this is prob my new favorite blog!

  26. Thanks so much for this idea! My husband and I just finished working on our version for my father and it turned out fabulous! I had seen the PB version awhile ago and loved it, so we recreated the horse. Great idea and it used up the rest of our leftover flooring!

  27. I just finished my own version of this as well. I saw this on your blog last year and had to try it! We used old pallets that we nailed together, and it turned out awesome! Thanks for the great inspiration.

  30. Did you use your air compressor to paint your joshua tree or use a paint brush? It looks terrific!

  32. This is Genius!! I hope to try it sometime…. I’ll link back if I ever accomplish it. I’ve tried masking in different ways but never on wood.

  36. OMG!

    This is such great idea!

    I need a new piece of art for my living room and haven’t been able to find anything I like..

    Thanks!

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Hey there! I’m Michelle; I’m an Passionate DIY’er and in constant pursuit of how to bring beauty to my house full of men (3 boys + 1 hubby). Stick around and see what I’ve got up my hard-working sleaves!

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