There are so many different ways of using messages and letters when decorating your home... in these following photos I will show you what I did to the entrance area of my holiday house in Finland...
In 2006 when we signed the contract with the company that was going to do the base and the wood part for our house. And while busy going through the contract the house builder asked, how would we like to call our house... we had no ideas and in the same time four cranes flu over us so, I told him that the name for the house should be the "FLY OF THE CRANE" and since that our house was officially called "Kurjenlento" meaning the fly of the crane in Finnish. For quite sometime I wanted to have a sign outside of our house and finally I found some letters that could make the text for the sign... But they were white and bright...too white to hang up on a black wall of our house. So I have to find a way to change the letter to "grey" looking colour and the way, how to hang them up nicely, because the word was quite long.
To paint these letters, I used black spray paint and the way I did it, is the following: I just sprayed small amount of the black spray paint on the cardboard and then with a clean small paint brush took a small amount of paint and the brushed the paint over the letters. If you want to do something like this and you are going to use spray paint you have to work quite fast. The paint is drying really fast. Other wise you can also use normal paint but it will take much longer to dry.
I have bought a long wooden board, and I painted that in light grey and it was one of those paints that gives the colour to the wood but leaves the natural look of the wood not covering it too much...If you do something like this and want to keep it outside you have to use nails to attached the letters to the wood surface. I was first thinking to use a glue, but the weather conditions, from the warm summer to cold winter will not keep the letters attached for long on the board... The best way is to nail the letters with a nail gun and use very fine nails. You can't see the nails at all.
...And here is the result of it... with some other details that we added in same time to our entrance area...
...And here it is...hanging on the wall...
