A Tutorial: Making a Farmhouse Sign

Good Morning Ladies.

I have a quick and easy post for you today.  Like many of you it seems, I have a sick little people on my hands today so I'll keep this short and sweet.

For those of you wondering how I made this sign . . .

today is your lucky day.

I started out with 1X4's and cut them to size.

After cutting them to the length,  I placed them on the floor, right side down, making sure to line up the edges and eyeballing it to make sure it was straight.

Using scrap wood, I cut three pieces to fit inside the 1X4's to hold it all together.

After applying some construction adhesive and then attaching the wood scraps to the 1X4's with screws it looked like this.

Next I painted it with my favorite color, cottage white.

Traced on the cow and letters.

And started painting.

Once it was all painted I gave it a day to allow the paint to dry. . .

Then I started sanding it all down.  At first I tried using my electric sander thinking it would make things faster but I didn't like the way it was looking.  Instead I finished it up by hand sanding.  I thought it gave me more control.  As you can see I sanded - A LOT!  But that was the look I was going for.

Originally I wanted to add moulding around the edges to give it a more finished look.  But when the time came to actually add it a trip to the store was needed for the correct supplies.  Instead, I choose to fake it by adding a painted edge.

A couple coats of antique glaze finished up the weathered look I was trying to achieve.

To hang it, I installed two eye hooks and strung hanging wire between the two.

That's it!  A super easy sign that I'm in love with.

Until tomorrow,

Robin