Has anyone done any interesting home art or remodeling projects using signmaking techniques? There must be some very interesting homes among this crowd. I just finished re-surfacing my kitchen table using varigated leaf and a few other finishes. I need to replace a gate leading to my back yard and I'm using an old redwood panel I'm having planed down to sandblast a design into it. I'd like to post a photo but I haven't taken the time to learn that here.
Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
We have a couple of things around here the most prominant however would be our redwood sandblasted address sign on a verticle format between the garage doors (about 30" tall and 10" wide)Makes it easy for our letterhead friends to find us.
The numbers were from a set I designed for a cake decorator and I have named "Cake" (0 thru 9)
Someday I want to finish the entire alphabet but for now it will have to remain on hold.
I'm not much good at the picture thing either but I'll try tomorrow.
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
How about an offcut mdo piece-6"x6' Marked off in inches, I started recording my sons height 5 years and 30 months.They're 19 and 23 now. also right off the scale.
John / BIG TOP Graphics
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I think my bathroom is done in Early Trammel Crow. I used old MDO panels to remodel the walls in the bathroom and bedroom closets. No need to use sheetrock anchors to fasten shelving. A little sanding, a little texture and paint and no one will ever know the walls are plywood.
I also had sandblasted and gilded address numbers on my house. One time a fellow sign artist was looking for my place. When he saw the Gold leaf numerals, he knew he had arrived without even checking to see if he had the right address.
Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
I love doing home improvements (just wish there wasn't so many) creativly. I don't know what kind of "sign techniques" I would use on a stone patio or wall cabinite. But that doesn't mean I can't have creative fun with it ... I never mow my lawn in straight lines.
I did replace under my sofits with scrap masonite from the shop, block off window around air conditioner with scrap pvc, vinyl numbers on mailbox
past few weeks we've (brother/father-inlaw/me) have been making oak raised pannel doors for our kitchens (to go on the cabinites we made almost a year ago ... slackers) no sign techniques that I know of but still fun working with hands (sledgehammer zen)
someday I really want to put a mural in my foyer, got the plan in my head but no time on my hands
I guess my sons bedroom would be about the closest to sign-ish techniques Posted by Roy Frisby (Member # 736) on :
Have a sign friend in South Texas who sheeted and decked a new house with used mdo signage, made for a rather intesting site until the roofing and siding covered it over. The floor in his barn is a mirrade (spelling) of old signs.
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
We have etch vinyl on our back door done in squares with black vinyl panels. also until I can re-sand and paint the kitchen cabinets...they have vinyl on them with a silver pinstripe. Some bedroom closets have shelves made from MDO signs.
Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
My last house had white vinyl floor in the kitchen in a 12" square pattern. I thought some small black diamonds at the intersections of the squares would look nice. Before going to the trouble of picking up small black ceramic mosaic tiles and routing out spaces to fit them flush with the existing vinyl, I tested the look with 1" square black imtermediate vinyl... Made one row down the middle and that looked pretty good - added another row flanking that, skipping every other tile. That looked good too. So I kept it that way a while to see if I'd still like it a week later. After six months it was still looking great! Eventually some started to get chipped so I peeled them up and replaced them with new stickers. Never did inlay those ceramics!
Posted by Bill Modzel (Member # 22) on :
A buddy of mine gave me his patio table. One of those round ones with a glass top insert which he had replaced twice already after it blew off his deck. I made nice MDO faux marble insert for it and in spite of it's horizontal position, it still looks great after three years. I also had a bathroom window that was a bit too large. I made scanned in one of my stained glass patterns and cut a layer of frosted vinyl leaving a few sections open and overlaid copper metallic for the leading. Bingo, privacy and light.
Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :
I tend to do things the other way around! Using faux finishes and materials on signs. Hand cut vinyl shelving paper for oddball letter styles all the time,along with full sheets to cover substrates as backgrounds.
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