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How To Make A Modern Farmhouse Sign

You smitten with modern farmhouse style, but it’s difficult for you to make a decoration that reflects a farmhouse style because you’re not really clear of what it means by Modern Farmhouse Style. Here I have a modern farmhouse sign decoration that would explain it. A modern farmhouse it’s actually a mix of a modern style meets farmhouse style. A modern style is clean and sleek. And the easiest base color to show modern is white. In the other hand, farmhouse is more country or traditional, and often looking rustic. How can the two of them meets together? Of course through the simplicity of both style and practicality that modern and farmhouse is looking for.

Modern and farmhouse are both simple and practical, you can mix the farmhouse’s traditional and a little rustic look into a clean and sleek of modern. Like for example my simple clean white and sleek cut of garden sign meets the rustic hand painted framed lines. Humble words of “my garden” is also a mix of a laid-back farmhouse wording of “my” and a clean wording of “GARDEN”. So, basically I use modern canvas and painted it with farmhouse. Although this project is more to work on the styles, I will still share with you the simple technical tutorial on how to make a modern farmhouse sign.

Things To Prepare

Try to use anything you can find at home or things you can upcycle. A similar material will do to make this modern farmhouse “my garden” sign :

A white plank
Dark blue acrylic paint
Black marker

How To Make

By understanding the modern elements that you can mix together with farmhouse :

1 .Have a white plank to work as the Farmhouse sign. It can be any material. wooden, pvc, steel plate, anything. Cut the plank into your desired size, with rectangle shape.

2 .Next is to paint a very dark blue on the white plank by hand. Let it looked a bit rough on finishing, to get the rusty farmhouse charm. Let it dry.

3 .Write the words “My Garden” by using black marker. And you’re done!

Basically, once you understand what is farmhouse and what is modern style and how you combine the two styles to create modern farmhouse look, the rest is easy. Any modern farmhouse would be easy for you to make. If you like some farmhouse look, check out my DIY Farmhouse Upcycled Pot Holder.

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DIY Farmhouse Upcycled Pot Holder

Old cooking pots are always there in storage room, I don’t throw it, I always upcycling it into something I like. Like couple of days ago, I made a flower pot holder from my old enamel cooking pot. I upcycled the cooking pot into a farmhouse pot. You may need to spend some dollars to buy this similar looking farmhouse pot holder. But here, I’m sharing with you how to make a farmhouse pot from upcycling cooking pot with the look that you can find at stores.

It’s a simple looking farmhouse upcycled pot holder, but a simple look can show a modern style even better. I choose a white look and a touch of farmhouse from the jute rope. All the simple elements I put are coming together with a modern farmhouse style. Sounds nice? Of course, because it’s not just it looks beautiful with your farmhouse home decor but the upcycled farmhouse pot is also easy to make. scroll down and see for yourself all my steps to make and all the materials I use to make this lovely farmhouse pot holder.

Things To Prepare

One or two simple supplies are needed for this quick and easy DIY Farmhouse Upcycled Pot Holder. Pretty easy things to find, I’m sure you can have it easily and cheap. Anyway, here is the list of supplies to make my DIY Farmhouse Upcycled Pot Holder :

A used or an old cooking pot (mine was an enamel cooking pot)
White acrylic paint
Dark blue acrylic paint
White spray paint
Jute rope
Black marker

How To Make

It’s simple to make, upcycling an old cooking pot into a farmhouse pot holder will be your fun afternoon. It’s easy to make and the result is gorgeous, so of course it’s fun! So, let’s just go to the step by step part on how to make my DIY Farmhouse Upcycled Pot Holder :

1 .My cooking was a single handle cooking pot. I got help from my husband to take the handle off. After that, clean and dry the cooking pot. My pot has some apple paintings on it that I was dying to get rid off. So, I painted the apple paintings with white acrylic paint. Also the defected area of the pot handle. Leave it to dry.

2 .Now, spray paint the enamel pot, concentrated on the painted area, so it will look smoother and even. Let it dry.

3 .The pot holder is almost finished, with a smooth white look, the pot is ready for some more make over. Take your small brush and paint the pot’s mouth with dark blue paint. Leave it until dry.

4 .Grab a jute rope and tie the enamel pot and end it with a bow.

5 . Last thing to do is to put more character to the -almost finish- farmhouse pot holder, a word of “garden”. Write it with the black marker. And you’re done!

Simple upcycling project to do on your summer. My DIY Farmhouse Upcycled Pot Holder can be a great new addition to your home decor or your garden. Easy and quick to make, and a new pretty farmhouse pot holder is yours!

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Mel

DIY Farmhouse Easter Eggs Banner

Easter is next month and you probably are looking for some inspirations to decorate your home with Easter theme. Well, you are in the right place, because I’m sharing my DIY Farmhouse Easter Eggs Banner with tutorial. It’s an easy Easter diy which using scraps at home; yes, cardboard box to be re-used. And it looks great for farmhouse style with the rustic simple look. But you can always substitute the cardboard with wooden panel if you wanted a fancier look or something more durable. But if you always look for new look every year for your home Easter decor, you can simply re-cycling your old cardboard box for the Easter bunting.

Things To Prepared

These are some supplies to make this easy Easter eggs banner with farmhouse look. I guess every crafter would have these supplies at home. Th`ose are simple things you can find at every craft supplies store.

Cardboard (re-using cardboard box)
Cotton rope in white color
Burlap rope
Glue
White paint
Black marker

How To Make

Easy steps are all required to make this farmhouse banner of Easter Eggs with bunny. Just follow these easy tutorial with the pictures above!

Cut your cardboard into a shape of eggs and make it three with dimension of around 3 inches x 4.5 inches.
Paint one cardboard egg with zig zag pattern, the second one with polka dot pattern and the third one with bunny’s silhouette from behind by using white paint. It doesn’t have to be very sleek to get a rustic look. Let it dry.
Glue the burlap rope circling the Easter egg three times. Adding more farmhouse style to the Easter eggs banner. Let it dry.
Write the word “Hop” on the zig zag and polka dot pattern eggs by using a black marker.
Twirl the cotton rope to form a fluffy ball of tail and glue it to the bunny on the cardboard egg banner.
Install some burlap rope at the back of the three cardboard eggs with the Easter bunny in the middle and secure it with adhesive tape. And your Easter banner is ready!

Frugal DIY and easy project to do for Easter decor. It’s a great farmhouse Easter decoration where you can hang the Easter eggs banner on your mantel, door or even at your kitchen cabinet. Just look for some cardboard at your storage and get other supplies to make this Farmhouse Easter Eggs Banner!

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DIY Farmhouse Sign Wire Rack From Upcycling Fry Pan

Happy Earth Day! Yes, today is earth day, I don’t have fancy activity to save our beloved earth, just a small gesture of having less garbage by making upcycling project. I made a DIY Farmhouse Sign Wire Rack from upcycling Fry Pan. It’s super easy and fun project to do. Super easy because not many materials involved and no much work to be done. Fun because you get to see your old fry pan turned into something you can hang on your wall beautifully.

Why I choose the farmhouse style? Because the fry pan itself has already got the vibe, a wooden handle, with black pan. It’s so easy to continue the farmhouse style to the entire look of the wire rack sign.

Okay, let’s see the things that you need to prepare for making this DIY Farmhouse Sign With Wire Rack From Upcycling Fry Pan:

Old fry pan which have a similar look with mine (any fry pan with black steel or paint it in black and wooden handle can do)
White acrylic paint
Farmhouse Burlap Ribbons ( I diy it, I will show you how on my future post)
Organic hemp rope
Magnetic white wire rack (I got in from Daiso)

Let’s go through the easy steps to DIY Farmhouse Sign Wire Rack From Upcycling Fry Pan:

I have adjusted the fry pan handle into a straight handle, it was tilted handle. You need a straight handle in order to use it as a hanger.
Paint the pan with the word “family” with white acrylic paint on the top area (hanging position) of the pan.
Tie a farmhouse burlap ribbons by using organic hemp rope on the handle’s base point.
Stick the magnetic white wire rack on the low area of the pan.
Done! Easy and fast! I finished it with some flowers, it is spring anyway. You can put other things like maybe some cute salt and pepper shaker or other decorations.

I love simple look, so I don’t put too much decorations or ornaments on my projects, and so as this farmhouse sign wire rack. This a very flexible wall decoration, you can take off the magnetic wire rack and paste some ornaments, maybe a wooden letter or word, or anything still with the farmhouse style. Well, more important thing is that you can manage to upcycling your fry pan into a DIY functional home decoration like this Farmhouse Sign Wire Rack. Give it a try!

If you wanted to see more upcycling fry pan projects I have made before, check out my post DIY Upcycle Frying Pan Into Shabby Wall Decoration and Pedestal Tray From DIY Upcycle Frying Pan. For more future posts, follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest board, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram!