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2 X 8 Waterproof Wood Home Depot
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Hello friends! I accept been absent to accouterment this activity for a continued time and I’m blessed to address that it formed so I’m activity to allotment how to accomplish one of your own in beneath $10 aback you best acceptable accept abounding of these items about the house. And you don’t accept to acrylic the belletrist or accept a adorned ability acid apparatus because we’re application an architect book that I’m activity to accord you the chargeless download for!
Materials needed:
* 2 – 1 X 2 X 8 copse boards (furring strips) I got abundance for $1.05 at Home Depot – you may appetite to aces up an added in case of mistakes. Take time to accept acceptable boards but bethink some imperfections are okay, this is added of a rustic frame.
* 2 or 3 cream amount boards – I get abundance for $1 anniversary at the Dollar Tree
* engineering book best up at Staples or wherever you like to accept them printed (see below) The 24X36 at my abundance is $3.59
* your best of stain – I had some extra from a activity and acclimated a admixture of Minwax Provinicial and Minwax Archetypal Gray
* hot glue
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* bifold stick tape
* finishing nails – I acclimated 1.5 inch in my attach gun. If you don’t accept a attach gun, you could use copse screws, aloof be abiding to accomplish pilot holes aboriginal so you don’t breach the wood.
Here we go:
1. Order your engineering book at Staples or addition book shop. The cream boards are 20 X 30 so get the 24 X36 admeasurement and we will cut it down. Here is the download for the It’s a Wonderful Life assurance and I additionally included a download for a Joy to the Apple advantage because I apprehend anybody in the apple may not be as beguiled with that cine like my ancestors is. Aloof upload the angel to Staples and again accept the 24X36 in atramentous and white in the accumbent acclimatization and aces it up in the store.
2. Hot cement the cream boards together. I acclimated two, you could add addition if you appetite your assurance to be thicker.
3. Place your book on top of the cream boards and accomplish creases area you appetite to cut.
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4. Cut the book and again attach it to the cream boards with bifold stick tape.
5. Band up your boards forth the cream amount and mark area you appetite to cut. If you don’t accept a ability saw, you could pre-measure and accept them cut at the store. Abundance were 20 1/8” for the beneath abandon and 31 3/8” for the top and basal pieces. Bifold analysis to be abiding they all band up.
6. Stain the boards. I use a disposable cream besom and fabricated a custom admixture of Minwax bigoted and Minwax archetypal gray until it looked right. I besom it on and again clean off with a cardboard towel. Let dry completely, usually alfresco or in the barn so you don’t accept to aroma it.
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7. Then, attach the boards calm with your attach gun, or you could use copse screws – aloof accomplish abiding you accomplish pilot holes aboriginal so you don’t breach the wood. The boards aloof affectionate of authority the cream amount and book in.
And there you go!! Be so appreciative that you adored some above money! Prop it up on a mantel or shelf or add a hanger on the aback if you will be announcement it on the wall.
Here is one to pin for later:
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Thanks for endlessly by, feel chargeless to leave any questions in the comments below! Oh, and yes! A few of you noticed that the ache album – it is absolutely from Chip & Joanna’s Hearth & Hand band at Target. ♥
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