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Farmhouse Dollar Store Diys/Dollar Tree Farmhouse Diy's

Mar 19, 2024
Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to create some high end

farmhouse

decor using items from the

dollar

store

. Let's go ahead and start our first project, which will be some farm animal signs using three of these

dollar

signs.

tree

, I think I bought them last year, they were in my stash, if you can't find them this year, they measure five inches by six and three quarter inches. I removed the hangers and tags and then completed each of those. The holes where the hangers were with a little wood putty dried quickly, so by the time I finished the third one, the first one was dry and I was able to sand it down nice and smooth.
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Now let's cover them with some quartz paint. sticks, you can find them in a 30-pack at Lowe's for a dollar. I'm going to use five for each sign and I'll start by cutting the rounded tip off each of the ends and then I can use the first one to hold up. instead to make my mark to cut that to size and use it as a template to cut the remaining four. Now you will have to cut one of them because only four complete pieces will fit and you will have to cut the fifth piece. so I'm going to place all of those in there, pushing them together really hard and then I'm going to hold the fifth one in place to make the mark on the top and bottom, so I know how to draw my line and know exactly how much I need to trim.
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I think it's easier to use a knife to score it a few times and then cut it with the scissors so it doesn't chip or break once I know everything is going to fit together perfectly. I'm going to remove them in the order that I put them there so that when I glue each one together I know that everything is going to fit. I'm going to glue each one on with a little hot glue and make sure to push hard from one. stay on the next one to make sure there aren't any gaps left once everything is glued together.
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I'm going to do the same thing with the other two sides as well and make sure to remove all the glue strands because now we're going to apply some old wax with a paintbrush and a baby wipe. I'm going to apply it to all of the craft sticks, including the inside sides of the sign and the top edge of the sign, and then I'm going to take that baby wipe and mix it up. all the way in and lighten it a little to the outside edges because those signs were painted. I'm going to use the brush and apply it to all four sides of each of the signs, but I'm not going to clean that up.
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Take the baby wipe off, I'm just going to apply a layer on each side and once it's completely covered, I can take my brush while it's still wet and create lines to make it look like faux wood again. I will do that. for all three sides and I'm going to make sure everything is completely dry before I cover the back of each of these because I want it to have a really nice finish. I'm going to take some craft paper and just trace and cut out the size I need for each back of the signs, then I'm going to stick it on using just a regular glue stick and once I have it in place, if there's any excess on the outer edge, you can simply turn it over and trim it.
Take it down with a pair of scissors or a knife and this will give you such a clean and finished look now using three of these metal animal hanging signs from Dollar General. They cost a dollar each piece. I'm going to take some pliers. and unroll each of the ends so I can remove all of these hangers, then I'm going to use some plastic wood putty, this is very fast drying, I'm going to apply this to each of the signs where the holes are with a stick. For normal crafts, you can also use putty, so when I finished the third one, the first one was dry.
I'm going to take some really fine grit sandpaper and sand them nice and smooth, clean them up and then we'll continue. outside and use some krylon fusion all in one spray paint in hammered silver. This required three coats because it is quite a thick paint and will give us that nice hammered look. Be sure to let it dry completely before handling it. and move on to the next step to give it a beautiful finish, have a nice thick hammered look and I want to oxidize the edges a little bit. You can skip this process if you don't like the wear and tear, but I'm going to take some antique wax, dip my brush in the antique wax, wipe most of it off, and then apply this around all the edges of each of these antique signs. metal, it just gives it an extra dimension and I really like it. the way it looks, especially when we put them on our signs, so I make sure we have those little pieces that we cut for the craft sticks all facing down so everything looks cohesive and consistent, and I'm using e6000 to apply. on the entire back of each of the metal signs and then place them on the sign.
I chose to place them all touching the bottom, but you can put them in the center or however you want, then you'll want to put something heavy on it. on it to allow the e6000 to adhere well now what I love about this project is that you can design it so many different ways you can group them together or place them individually but I love how this project turned out and I hope you like the project too number two. We are using two of these beautiful birds from Dollar General. They cost a dollar each. They are quite heavy.
I think they are made of cement or concrete, but they are not resin. They are very, very sturdy using folk arts white chalk paint in the color cottage white. I'm going to give three coats to the top half of the bird to cover that metallic color and one coat to the bottom so that the bottom has this beautiful detailed concrete. white appearance, so we'll bring it up a little later in the project. I'm taking a black oil-based marker or any black marker and now I'm filling in the eyes and part of the beak. I was originally going to leave some of the whites of the eyes, but I decided to go back and color them, then I'm going to take some sandpaper, we're going to highlight the detail of that concrete at the bottom and this is going to give it a beautiful worn look but it really pops. those feather details.
Now we're not going to do this on the top because the top has that metallic color and we're just highlighting the gray on the bottom like I was doing. What distressed me was that I thought the eyes were too bold, that they were too dark and bright, so I applied white paint over that and then decided, you know, I'm just going to cover it and once it dries, I'll do it. Go back in and sand it down and highlight some of the details on the eyes and beak. I'm going to show you another way to distress it: using some antique wax and dry brushing on it to bring out the detail. on the wings on the top and bottom half of the bird, it just depends on how you want to style it or what you're pairing it with and depending on what color you want to wear it with, I like them both ways, I love it. beautiful white within the distressing gray at the bottom, but I also love this one with the antique wax because it looks very woodsy and pairs very well with colors like wood and green.
Now I'm taking some sandpaper and highlighting the eyes and the beak and I think it just gave it better detail than just the austerity of that oil-based marker, but it's just a personal preference on how you know you want to style them or how you want to wear them out either way, I think to each their own. Of them turned out really beautiful, you'll have to tell me which one you like best, if you like it with just the white on the top and then the distressed on the bottom or if you like that old wax with all the distressing.
Either way I think they are beautiful and I think it depends on what you pair them with that really brings out the beauty of each of these birds, if you are enjoying today's projects and haven't already done so I would. I love that you become part of our community here at Country Lily DIY Decor by clicking the subscribe button to all my current subscribers. Thank you so much. I truly appreciate each and every one of you. I would also love for you to visit me in all of them. My other social media accounts, all those links are in the description box below, this project is so fun and easy to do.
We are using one of the 12 inch thick ribbons from Dollar Tree. I'm going to mark that at eight inches I took it outside and cut it. with my miter saw, but you can also use your handheld miter saw to cut it out, after sanding it nice and smooth and cleaning up any residue, we're going to give the whole piece a coat of Waverly Antique Wax and then use a damp cloth. clean, mix and wipe off the excess, now let it dry completely and we're going to take one of the dollar

tree

hanging windmills and I'm going to remove the hook on the back by just taking some pliers and releasing it. end and we're not going to need that for this project, but I always like to save things because you never know when you might need it for a future project.
Now you can remove the welcome part at the bottom, but I liked it and Like the wood shown, you can also cut the batten to the exact size of the welcome part, but I wanted some to hang from each end to give it a little more color using e6000. I'm going to center it right at the top. of the slat with the piece of wire that is on the back holding the windmill that rests on the wood and then I am putting clamps in there to allow the e6000 to be installed. Now this was very easy but it really adds a lot of beauty. character when you put it with other pieces, I love how this project turned out and I really hope you guys like it too and now for our final project, a barn tissue box holder using two of these barn shaped sides from Dollar Tree.
To remove the labels from both, as well as the wood pieces on the front, I'm using my arrow staple remover, but you can also use it as a Cricut Scraper or a putty knife, just slide it under these wood pieces and they will come off very easily. You will do that for both signs and then for one of the signs where you really want to make sure you remove all the paper or at least remove most of the paper and then sand it nice and smooth because you will use the back of one of the signs and you'll be using the front on the other side, so the one you're going to use on the front just make sure it's sanded well, now don't throw those pieces away. which we removed because we're going to reuse them, we're going to use some of the wood planks from Dollar Tree that come in a six pack, so I'm going to flip this over where the front is facing the outside edge to my left. and then you want your chimneys to match so the back is going to be facing to the right take one of those boards and hold it up to the peak at the top where the roof meets and we'll hold it to the side so we can mark where the top and bottom pieces of the fireplace, then I measured the width of the fireplace and I think it was about 5 8 of an inch, I measured it on my wooden board and then drew a square so I would know where to cut them.
I'm going to do the exact same thing on the other side of the other fireplace. Once I've got the marks done, I'm just going to use that as a reference and guide on the left side to Make my marks on the right side now like before. I'm going to score it with my knife a few times and then use my handheld miter shears. These are listed in my Amazon

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in the description box below if so. I'm interested, once I have the two side pieces cut out, I can see the back, I can draw a line to connect the two and I know where to mark that with my knife, once I marked it a few times they will come right out.
I'll give you a nice break and now I want to make sure everything fits, but I also want to create an opening at the top as this will be the lid for a tissue box. I'm going to measure it. it was about two to three quarters of an inch and four and a quarter of an inch outside the edge and then I measured how wide I wanted it to be and then I just drew out my rectangle and did the same thing I did on the sides marking them and then using my scissors. hand miter and then I continue marking them until I can get that piece out once I have it I go over all of these pieces with a little bit of sandpaper to make sure that it's nice and smooth now I'm going to turn it over to the side and I'm using one of those tables.
This will become the side of our barn and is not wide enough to reach the bottom of the barn, so I'm going to measure the distance from the bottom of the roof to the bottom of the barn and see what difference I need to cut for the bottom piece so I cut it exactly the same way I did the top pieces and once I know everything will line up this is what it's going to look like once we put it together so you'll cut one for the other side and you'll have three full planks to the roof, the one we cut for the chimney. and then the two smaller pieces and then the two pieces that we removed from the front.
Now I'm going to go over all of these with a water/antique wax mixture which is roughly two parts water, one part antique wax and Going over all of that, including the sides, front and back, with a lint-free cloth , set them aside and let everything dry. Now I'm also going to grab two full boards for the side walls of the barn. How to paint bothbarn front pieces with chalk paint, this is a white cabin done with folk art and it will take a couple coats on the barn and just one coat on those wooden boards so now that everything has dried for those two pieces .
We're going to set everything aside except one of them and we're going to use some dollar tree craft sticks, they come 100 in a pack and I'm going to measure two to two inches, we're going to create the window and barn door for this one. barn, so we're going to repeat this twice because we're going to do the exact same thing for the front and back of the barns, then I measured the two one and a quarter inch side pieces to form our square window at the top and then I measured two two and a half inches. for the top and bottom pieces of the barn door and then two to two and a quarter inches, make sure it's nice and square before you put the cross pieces in, hold them in place and make marks where you need to cut the corners. so I just placed it from the bottom left corner to the top right corner.
Use those handheld miter shears to cut those angles and then I'll repeat it for the other one, except I'll make a mark in the middle so I can cut this into two separate pieces and everything will be flush when we cut it all out, it won't overlap the original cross on the barn door, so once you have everything cut out, if you need to trim off the excess, you can do so. Do it now, just make sure you have everything in order before sanding each of these with some sandpaper, so I created the exact same design for the other side of the barn and once I have everything sanded, I'll remove it.
I'll go over them all with that old wax and water mixture and let everything dry for the barn faces because we cut those little bits off the sides. I want to create a border for the bottom of each of these barn faces, so I'm holding that little piece up and I'm going to put some painter's tape right on top of it so I can have the same width from the front. and the back and I'm going to seal that with some white chalk paint so it doesn't run, I'm going to let the white chalk paint dry completely and then I'm going to apply a couple of coats of that water wax. mix, allowing it to dry between each layer and then once they are dry you can remove the tape and you will have a beautiful crisp line and it is the perfect width like those bottom pieces, it will create a beautiful border.
Now I'm going to take all of my pieces and just lay them out on the front of the barn to make sure that I have everything lined up and centered and that everything will fit together now because I decided to go in and do that border on the bottom. I realized that I know my side pieces. on that top window they're going to be too tall, so I end up cutting about a quarter of an inch, so actually those side pieces on the top window should be about an inch once I have everything lined up and centered where I want it to be.
I'm going to attach each of these using hot glue and I'm starting from the bottom and working my way up now you don't want to glue that top piece with the little chimney part, but we'll do that later. I was just using this as a guide to make sure everything is centered. Now I can take the pieces from the barn. I have the chimneys facing me with the barn doors facing out. Let's start with the bottom side piece. I am using e6000. plus a little bit of hot glue, I'm making sure not to mix the two, that hot glue will hold it temporarily, the e6000 will give it that permanent hold, keep it in place until the hot glue sets and then we'll flip it over one side and we can replace the white board for the side wall of the barn.
We'll do it with the same concept with the e6000 and hot glue, then I'll rotate it very carefully. put it over to the other side and then I can put the wall on that side making sure everything is straight and aligned and making sure I put everything flush with those outside edges, then we can add that bottom piece and then We can start on our ceiling, like this I'm going to attach the entire board piece right under the fireplace with e6000 and hot glue. Let's make sure we have the same amount of space on each side for overlap and then we can add our piece. where the chimney pieces come down and the opening for our scarves and then we'll repeat this on the other side of the roof, once we have those in place we can go and add those decorative pieces to the front, this is strictly optional.
I don't have to do that, it's just as pretty without it, but I thought it gave it a little bit more of a finished touch and then once I have them there, you could stop there, but I wanted to add some embellishments. to those outside corners and I'm using some of those same craft sticks. I'm going to measure them all and cut them so that the side piece goes under the roof line all the way to the bottom and then I'll have this front. The piece goes from the bottom to the top of the roof line, this will cover all those corners and really give it a more luxurious finished look to make the fireplace pieces a little taller. one of the dollar tree rotating tower pieces that marks that and then I cut it out.
Now I've stained the whole thing with my wax and water mixture and I've also painted those little pieces on the front so that when I put those craft sticks in you won't. Look at them as well as I painted those fireplace pieces. It will make everything mix very well. I'm just going to secure them with hot glue. They don't really provide any support. They are more or less just decorative. I'm going to add those side pieces and it gives that finishing touch to the sides and then once I have the side pieces there I can go in and add my front pieces which will also cover the seams that I have for those side walls or the planks that we added for the side walls and I think it just takes it a little further, it looks so beautiful, you guys would have to tell me if you like it with or without the border, but once you have it all. its edge on the front and back you can now take a square tissue box and place it on top, pass your tissues through that opening and now the tissue looks like a beautiful little chimney coming out, you have a wonderful way to display their handkerchiefs.
Now that we are in the middle of pollen season with these watery eyes and runny noses, you can very cleverly hide those tissue boxes with something very beautiful. If you have a favorite from today's projects, let me know in the comments below. I always love it. Know which one is your favorite. I want to thank you very much for taking the time to watch my video. I really appreciate each and every one of you, please take care of yourselves and I will see you next time.

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