We have been busy decking the halls over the past few days and have finished most {okay… maybe half} of the house. While I still have a ways to go before I complete all of the decorating, I have been enjoying the twinkling Christmas lights and am just trying to ignore the complete disaster areas in the rest of the house. 🙂
Today I am teaming up with the rest of the BEHR DIY Expert team to bring you some holiday inspired painting projects. We also have a fun giveaway for you at the end of the post – if you have some painting plans in your future you will definitely not want to miss it!
For my project, I decided to do a wooden joy sign for our dining room. I am decorating the dining room with neutrals and metallic tones this year with some snowy branches and other touches of nature. Unfortunately, I don’t quite have the dining room done to show you yet {although there are a few sneak peeks on Instagram!}, but this is the view looking through the dining room into our front entry…
This sign is extremely easy to make and can be customized to any size you would like {or designed to read vertically}. My board was an unfinished piece of pine that was approximately 10 inches x 36 inches. I painted the board using BEHR Marquee in Dawn Grey and used Pure White for the lettering . Technically I probably should have primed the board prior to painting since it was unfinished wood; however, I was going for more of a rustic look so minor imperfections were not going to bother me {the paint did appear slightly darker over areas that the wood was knotted}.
I used some letter stencils that I cut out on my Silhouette for the lettering, but if you don’t have access to stencils, a ‘J’ and a ‘Y’ are pretty easy to free hand. Once everything was dry, I gave it a light sanding with some extra distressing around the edges for good measure.
For the ‘O’, I dressed up a grapevine wreath using an old garland that I had. I used wire cutters to trim it into smaller sections and hot glued it to the wreath form. It was the perfect fit for the dining room with the white and glittery silver balls, pine cones, and frosted branches.
I promise that I will have more pictures for you when the dining room is completed but for now I will leave you with these amazing holiday inspired DIY Christmas projects. Be sure to check them all out!
1. All Things Heart and Home 2. Clean and Scentsible 3. The DIY Dreamer 4. The Frugal Homemaker 5. Frugal Mom Eh 6. Just a Girl and Her Blog 7. Liz Marie Blog 8. Marty’s Musings 9. NewlyWoodwards 10. A Pop of Pretty 11. Small Home Big Start 12. Sugar Bee Crafts
And now for the giveaway!!!!
BEHR paint is giving away 3 gallons of BEHR paint to two lucky winners! So get your creative minds turning and figure out what painting projects you may have coming up! Just follow the Rafflecopter prompts below to enter…
Probably hidden sea glass
I love this! Love the gray for painting – a nice neutral to play with all the other holiday colors.
Love the gray and the way you used that beautiful wreath in your sign! Beautiful inspiration friend xo
I love the wreath that you made for it! Such great texture!
I’d get Rejuvenation for my bathroom and Frog for my living room!
I’d like to get one of the neutrals for my living room like Harvest Home
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I am really excited to try Behr Marquee! I want a sea glass color- a little blueish, a little greenish, a touch of grey.
Popping over from Newly Woodwards. This sign turned out beautifully. I am going to pin it and see if I can’t add it to my Christmas decorating this year. I love the wreath for the O. Thanks for sharing!
This is gorgeous, Jenn! Love the wreath idea for the “O”. So clever!
Thanks so much Marty!
Love the Dawn Gray paint. Thanks for the giveaway!
I really love the Dawn Grey you used on the sign for my downstairs bathroom. Once the rest of the bathroom is done I think I’d go with a similar color, just lighter for the family room in the basement.
I would get Quiet storm in my living room and bath, cotton fluff for the master, and lilac champagne for Ladybugs room! (:
I like chevril leaves. Thanks for the giveaway!
love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE this sign & will so have to make one for my kitchen area. There is a PERFECT place to display it also. {With your Blessing, of course}!!! Such a GREAT idea using the wreath for the “O”!
PS: I LOVE all the colors in the Opulence line!!!
I might choose either Empire Porcelain, Misty Morn, or Honied White.
I would pick white and yellow
I love the Antique Red. Seems like it would add a nice POP of color!
I think I would get some paint for my kitchen – right now it’s red, and I’m sick of it. I don’t know what color I would go with next. Orange, maybe or green, or a nice clean white! 🙂
that’s a lovely sign! I need to get back to doing things to make my house more enjoyable to look at.
I would get Peacock Feather and spa.
Right now I am going with purple. I would love to paint a room a light purple
white
I would use a white or off white to paint JOY on a piece of old barn wood.
I’m ready to paint my den and I’m leaning toward a red… I would love to win 3 gallons of Behr!
I love your sign! I like pineapple fizz for my basement outdoor porch area.
Thanks!
Shelia @ House of Highlands
Maybe a red for my kitchen. However, I may change my mind by tomorrow!! 😉
I could use this paint so bad right now! I have so many projects coming up!
I just painted my house inside with the behr Marquee Paint and will now never use anything else. The idea of only doing one coat was very foreign to me as I have always had to do two coats. There were a few places to touch-up when I was done my first coat but overall it mostly only required the one coat. I mainly used the Grey’s but would love to do two bedrooms with one – a lilac and white and the other with maybe a blue of some type. Awesome Christmas ideas here!! Love the marquee collection from behr!!
I would have to do some research but something fun and livly for the kids room!