How to Creatively Decorate Your Backyard Fence With Wall Art
Wall art is not just for indoor walls anymore. In addition to beautiful garden art, some outdoor wall art allows for easy cleaning and maintenance, and will look beautiful on any backyard fence or wall. By using outdoor art on your back fence, you can easily extend the sitting space of an outdoor porch or back room. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Digital camera or cell phone camera
- Sketch pad
- Pencils
- Writing pad
- Outdoor paints
- Nails
- Hammer
- Tape measure
- Masking tape
- Stencils
- Paintbrushes
- Outdoor art
Instructions
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Using Your Back Fence to Extend Your Porch
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Decide what theme you want to create. Appropriate outdoor themes might include suns and sun dials, Bacchus and grapes for a grape arbor, or frogs or sea horses for areas around a swimming pool. Decor that takes its cue from your back porch also provides a good option.
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Go to a store that specializes in outdoor wall art, and get ideas that fit your theme. Keep durability in mind.
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Take pictures with your camera phone, or draw sketches of the items you like. Write down where you saw each piece, its price and its measurements.
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Narrow down the pieces you'd like in your outdoor gallery once you get home. You'll do this by looking at your sketches or pictures taken in the store and reading the notes you made about them.
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Draw a rough diagram of your outdoor gallery on drawing paper or in a computer design program, which will allow you to see how the elements fit together. Any ideas for stenciling should end up on this diagram as well.
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Look into appropriate outdoor paints once you've decided on the piece you want in your outdoor gallery. Items such as plain terra cotta wall hangings respond very well to paint.
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Buy your pieces, then paint them if needed. Let them dry for a few days.
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Measure the area on your fence according to the diagram you've drawn. Using a piece of masking tape, mark where you'll install each piece of your outdoor gallery.
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Paint your stencils onto your marked area, using your drawn diagram as a guide. Let dry.
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Hang your wall art according to your diagram after your stencils have dried.
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Tips & Warnings
When thinking your decorating ideas through, remember that you can take many elements common in indoor rooms and recreate them outdoors. Decorating staples such as stencils can function like wallpaper borders. You can go beyond garden art: A beautiful outdoor replica of a Renaissance-style painting would look great near a grape arbor, for example. Be creative.
Some pieces, such as wall fountains, can cost quite a bit. Use items like these as the big centerpiece, then buy smaller, less expensive accent pieces to go around them.
