When I got off work tonight I was feeling crafty. I started looking through my Pinterest boards to see if there were any projects that I could work on, but nothing was getting my creative juices flowing. I sorta gave up on the craft idea and wandered over to the Pottery Barn website to. I stumbled upon these and I thought they were really cool!
A friend of mine recently finished his basement and it's uber-cool! It's all Restoration Hardware/ Pottery Barn looking. And yes...I think it's safe to say I'm just a tad jealous! ;) But really, the space is FAN-TAS-TIC!
Sorry this is the only picture I could find and this is from months ago when it was still under construction. |
Anywhooo I saw these and thought they would be a perfect addition to his space. There was one little problem though. The Pottery Barn art was way expensive! Even for my best of friend I couldn't justify spending that kind of money, so I decided I would try to make it. My version is a mixture of the two, but I think it's really cool and it cost me less than $15!
I started out by painting shims in five different colors.
I had to do a little customer paint mixing on a couple of the colors. The red and the yellow that I had purchased were just a little too bright for the look I was going for.
Once I painted all the shims. I laid them out on my plywood. I tried to lay them randomly - without putting too much thought into it so I didn't end up with any sort of color pattern.
Once I was happy with how everything looked, I went outside to start putting the frame around my plywood. I bought an eight foot piece of outside corner trim and used construction adhesive to attach it to my plywood.
I decided the stain the whole thing a dark walnut. The shims aren't perfect so I knew the plywood would show through in certain places.
Then I got a little crazy with the construction adhesive. Hehe :) I figure if a little is good than a lot is better and I didn't want anything to fall off!
Then all I had to do was lay my shims down. Easy as pie!
I wanted to tone down the paint colors just a bit so I wiped a little dark walnut stain over everything.
I love the dimension the of the shims!
And here it is- all finished. I can't wait to see it in his basement! I think it's going to look great.
I know my version is quite a bit different than Pottery Barn's but I love it just the same. :)
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