Crafts Made From Wood for Front Porch Posts
Display wood crafts outside with pride instead of hiding them away in dens, basements or on interior shelves. If your home has a porch, some of the best locations for displaying wood crafts are the front porch posts, which frame the steps leading up to your home's front door. While ribbons and lights make suitable temporary porch post decorations for holidays, wood crafts can remain on porch posts all year long.
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Welcome Sign
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One of the simplest wood crafts for a front porch post is a wooden "Welcome" sign. You can use a plank or panel of wood as is for your base material or trim a piece of wood to a particular size or shape with a saw. When painting on your letters -- and when painting the background of your sign, if you choose to do so -- use a non-water-based paint, like acrylic, which will be more resilient to the forces of nature.
Mailbox
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While many Americans are accustomed to having deep, submarine-like mailboxes that rest atop of posts in the front yard, an alternative mailbox design -- and placement -- option is to construct flatter, taller mailboxes and attach them to front porch posts. As BuildEazy shows, one design option involves giving the mailbox a tall, straight back panel and a shorter front panel that slopes downward. This structure allows you to use a slanted roof -- good for rain and snow runoff -- which you can attach to the body of the mailbox using a small set of hinges. Completing a wood mailbox for a front porch post will require the use of thick plywood, a saw, screws and a screw gun or screwdriver. You will also need a tape measure and pencil for measuring the plywood prior to sawing it to size.
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Wood Carving
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While the above crafts require basic carpentry or woodworking skills, this craft requires basic wood-carving skills. Wood carving is the art of creating three-dimensional surfaces or objects from wood by cutting or chipping away minute wood fragments. For a beginner-level carver, Classic Carving Patterns recommends carving a landscape relief from wood. Producing a relief requires that you carve the surface of a piece of wood so its contours form an image. Possible landscape relief images for front porch posts could depict meadows, forests or mountains. Completing such a wood-carving craft requires the use of a long-handled, short-bladed wood-carving knife. Wood-carving gouges, similar in design to their knife counterparts, are useful for scooping out wood fibers and forming depressions.
Display Tips
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According to OnlineTips, one of the best strategies for ensuring that your wood crafts receive optimum amounts of attention for guests and passersby is to keep your home's porch free of sticks, leaves, shoes, umbrellas and other items or debris. A dirty porch can distract people from the porch post wood crafts you are trying to display.
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