SPD: WOOD PALLET SIGN {COTTAGE LIVING}

Hap hap happy SPD day! Back for another round.
And I hope you (yes, you) will join us! If not this week, then definitely next week. What do you say?

I have to admit I'm still a little distracted by the CMT awards last night. Florida Georgia Line swooping them up left and right made me happy. I know my co-host would agree. 

Anyways....I'm pretty excited for this weekend to get here! I've mentioned before that Billy's parents have a boat and we typically travel to Billy's grandparents cottage in Port Clinton on the weekends in the summer a lot and this weekend will be our first weekend there so far this summer! We are so excited. Lake living is just better, isn't it?

His family has spent some time this year re-doing the bedrooms at the cottage and Billy's mom asked me if I would make a sign for over one of the beds with a wood pallet, kind of like this one I made two years ago. Of course I told her yes....

Wood? Lake inspired? Paint? Where do I sign?

I think many people assume wood pallet projects are really hard to do. THEY AREN'T-don't let them fool you! I found inspiration from this awesome sign...mainly just the size and yellow color on it. The last wood pallet I made that hangs in our guest bedroom, I didn't paint the wood at all like this one. We left it distressed which is also a great look... 

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This time, I wanted to switch it up and actually paint the wood to go with the color scheme in the bedroom. Here's what I did....

Supplies:
-Wood pallet {honestly, you can find these at hardware stores and if you ask they may give them away for free like ours did!}
-Screws
-2 1x4 pieces of wood
-Chalk, optional
-Acrylic paint in the color(s) of your choice
-Small foam paintbrush

What You Do:

1. Get your wood pallet and remove any screws or boards that don't "look" good. Place the boards you do want to use from the pallet together and have your spouse, boyfriend, or Dad (or yourself!) nail the boards together to stay in place. For this project, I used 6 of the boards from our pallet. It's a perfect size to go over a bed or for a statement piece in a room...

silly me, I forgot to take a picture before painting the wood a light grey. Try and picture without for now...

 

2. Once the boards are secure, screw the 1x4's on the back to secure the boards even more and to help with hanging. Like this....

3. Get to painting! I painted the wood Silver Spoon (light gray) by Behr. 

4. Once that coat dries (only needed one-the wood soaks up the paint so well!), think about the quote you want to paint on your board and paint that. Since this is for the cottage, I thought I would do a nautical inspired quote or something about boating. I chose yellow and a dark blue because it will match the colors in the bedroom that it's going in...

You can practice writing your quote with chalk or a pencil before painting it. I, however, this time chose to wing it (REBEL). You can also buy stencils if you think you have bad handwriting or will mess up, but I wasn't able to find stencils big enough for what I needed. 

Here's how it turned out...keep in mind it still isn't hung yet (obviously) so just do me a favor and picture it in a beachy cottage?

To hang the sign-we just use a strong and very durable wire that you can attach to the back on the boards and then use nails to hang. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but it has worked well with the one we have hanging in our guest bedroom. 

Wood pallet projects are so fun because you can literally paint anything your heart desires on them! Have fun with them and get creative.

And this project was pretty much F-R-E-E. That always equals amazing, right? 

Have you ever made a wood sign like this before? How'd I do? My handwriting isn't the best, but I think it looks pretty decent for a non-professional like myself, haha. Once we get the sign hung, I will share on instagram (@katiewkrysh) and on here to show you all what it looks like! Excited to get it up :)

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