Energize Your Entryway | Apartment Therapy Our good friend Carol Leonesio, author of many posts here on the StencilTalk blog, has entered the "Energize Your Entryway" Contest for Apartment Therapy and needs your vote! Voting closes July 11th, so … [Read more...]
Field of Fennel Bedroom
Long time StencilTalk! contributor Carol Leonesio is being featured in Apartment Therapy's Room for Color 2012, an "annual celebration of beautiful rooms where the stylish use of color is key". Carol used Stencil Library's Fennel stencil and … [Read more...]
Stenciling with Doilies 5: Collage Wall
Carol originally included the sample board for this collage wall in a previous post, and now that we're exploring applications using doilies as stencils, I thought it merited another look. In creating this wall, Carol layered various stencils, … [Read more...]
Stenciling with Doilies 3: Stenciled Cabinet
For this small cabinet makeover, I base painted the cabinet door a soft black. Next, I used a wavy stripe stencil from The Stencil Library (DM2 Waves) and applied black StucoLux™ to every other stripe, let dry and burnished. Two different paper … [Read more...]
Updating a Stencil Design
I recently returned to a client's home to do a little updating of some finishes and stenciling in their foyer. I did a scroll border (Palazzo Scroll Border by Royal Design Studio) above this doorway about six years ago. The homeowner decided that it … [Read more...]
Magnetic Memo Board
While working on StencilTalk blogger Carol Leonesio's new Paint It! website, I fell in love with a picture of this Magnetic Memo Board, and asked if we could share it with our readers. She agreed, and provided step-by-step instructions for completing … [Read more...]
Moving Outdoors: Garden Shed
Quite a few years ago, I painted the doors on this garden shed for a client. I just took this photo last week and was quite surprised to see how well the paint has held up, through at least five New England winters! I vaguely remember what paints I … [Read more...]
Boring Armoire Update
Many of us have one of these storage armoires somewhere in our homes. Come on, fess up! It's just one of those plain white fiberboard units from a box store that you assemble yourself. My tiny home is short on storage so this was a quick fix to … [Read more...]
Lettering Examples and Resources
I will end this week with a few more examples of lettering and some options for getting the job done. This library, done by Garay Artisans, features a quote around the arched window as well as scrolling poets' names along the low chair … [Read more...]
Large Stencil Designs
For the past year or so I have been doing a lot of very large scale stencil designs. Sometimes the size of these stencils can be a bit unruly for one person to deal with solo on a job site or in your own home, so if you can have an extra pair of … [Read more...]