NEW DOLLAR TREE FENCE DIY | Iron Look Garden Fence Craft | Farmhouse Wall Decor | Solid Wood Frame

Hello crafty family and welcome to another tutorial by She's So Crafty. For today's DIY project we'll be creating a pair of iron looking wall decor pieces for your home. Now these were created using the garden fence sections from the Dollar Tree and inexpensive wood for the frames. Now I applied a beautiful rich stain to these but there are so many options on ways to finish these. Now for your convenience I've provided the complete list of supplies and tools that I used to make this project in the description box below. Now I'm so excited to share this fun project with you but before we start I have to say hey hey and welcome back to all of my awesome subscribers and visitors to my channel. If you are a new visitor to my channel today and you love to create fun and easy DIY projects on a budget please go ahead hit that subscribe button and also click that notification bell so you will be the first to know when a new DIY tutorial is ready to share with you. So now let's just jump right into the project. Now for this project we're going to need two of these fence sections from the Dollar Tree and we'll also need two one by twos from the Home Depot. Now these come in eight foot long pieces and they're really inexpensive they only cost $1.54 each. Now you could also use some five gallon stir sticks from the Home Depot and these are only 98 cents and you'll need three packs to make two frames. Now the first thing we want to do is to cut down our one by twos into four pieces at 10 and a half inches and four pieces at 16 and a quarter inches. Now if you are using the paint stir sticks we're going to need four sticks for each one of the frames and again you want to cut two of those sticks at 16 and a quarter inches and 10 and a half inches if you want them to butt up end to end. Now if you wanted them to actually cross over each other, which I do recommend if you use the paint sticks, you won't cut that shorter stick at 10 and a half inches you'll cut it at 13 and a half. So now that all your sticks are nice and cut I'm just going to go ahead and stain with my favorite, you know it, Jacobian stain by Vimwax. So you're going to choose the prettiest side of the wood and then take your rag and you do want to apply one nice coat of that stain on the front side and the two side pieces. Now you do also want to stain the ends of the long piece because they will be exposed in your final project. Now once all of your long pieces are stained you want to go ahead and stain your shorter pieces and you want to stain them the same way but you don't want to stain the ends of these pieces because we will be adhering them to the wood and they will not be showing. And now that all your pieces are nice and stained you want to sit them out for two to three hours to dry. So while that dries we're going to work on our fence sections and we will be cutting these apart into four separate sections. Now to cut these I like to use just a pair of nice heavy duty sharp scissors and a combination of wire clippers if needed. I found that these two methods work the best in cutting this fence. So I like to start cutting my fence by first removing those sticks at the bottom. We're not going to be using these so we're going to go ahead and cut those off. And now we want to start cutting the sections of the fence apart. Now what you want to do is you just want to take your scissors and you want to cut evenly down the seam between each one of the sections just making sure that it is cut as evenly as possible until all of them are cut apart into four sections. Now we will be cutting the trim off of these little swirl pieces because this will be the main part of our project. So you just want to carefully take your scissors and cut around all of the curves. Now when you cut around these you just you just want to kind of make them as round and as even as possible as you go. Now cutting off that top part was fairly easy and the bottom can be kind of tricky because it is a little thicker but you just want to be careful going around it and take small little cuts at a time. I found that doing it that way will help prevent it from cracking. So now all we have is these little bits at the and we're going to have to form these into a little round shape to make it uniform with the other swirls at the top. And here is what one of the pieces will look like and we're just going to go ahead and take our small wire clipper and I'm just going to clip off any little burrs and you can also use sandpaper to sand it down as smooth as possible if you would like. And now we're going to repeat this for our other three pieces until we have all four of our pieces ready to go. So we're going to set two of those pieces to the side and we're going to be cutting the two more in half. So I'm going to cut those right down in the middle a little bit probably a little bit longer on the arrow side than the swirl side but we're going to cut them as shown here and then on the little swirl side we're just going to split those right down the middle in half. So in the end we'll have two full swirls, we'll have two half swirls and then the little swirls that we cut in half. So now I'm going to grab my grid mat and this will help me lay out the pieces and make sure that my design will be perfectly even. So we're going to start with those full pieces and we're going to butt those ends up together with the arrows facing out and we're going to slightly overlap them in the middle and we're going to work from the back side on this. So flip them over with the good side down and we want to overlap those bottoms to make sure that they're going to be nice and even. Now to glue these I'm going to be using my Surebonder hot glue on the high temperature and I do have my wood glue sticks in there. It does not matter which ones you use. I prefer the wood glue sticks. I think that they are a lot stronger and I'm just going to apply a layer of glue on there and stack them on top of each other to make sure they're bonded. Now once they are bonded I'm going to just generously apply another layer right on top of that seam just to make sure that they're nice and secure together. And here is what it will look like. Be generous with this. Don't be shy. Now once that glue is firm to touch we are going to proceed with adding our two top pieces that we cut off from the other swirls with the arrows on there. Again we want to make sure that they are face down and are nice and aligned. Now I did notice my ends were just slightly too wide so I'm just cutting the trim off both ends at the bottom to look like shown here just to make sure that they fit right in the area without overlapping. And then again I'm going to take my hot glue and I'm going to apply it right on top of that glue that we just applied to adhere those two side pieces together. And then once that's on there you just want to place the very end of that piece right on top and you want to make sure it's nice and even. And we're going to repeat this for the bottom side as well until that glue is nice and secure. Now once that initial bond is on there you want to apply a heaping amount of that hot glue at that seam where that piece was placed on top. I just like to run the glue right down those channels and connect the channel of that piece along with the channel on that side. And you can see here how I applied that glue. Now to make sure that these are definitely secure in place I'm going to take two of these zip ties and I am going to apply around that seam between the main piece and those pieces we added. Now I got these zip ties from Dollar Tree. They're really inexpensive and I believe they come in about 60 a pack. So once those zip ties are nice and secure around there you just want to clip off those tails. So now we're going to add those little swirl pieces. So I'm just going to place one on each side just as shown here. I'm going to place two at the top and two at the bottom. Now to make sure they fit I'm going to trim the bottom of each one of those swirls until it's nice and flat and it'll fit right inside that little crease. Now once our cuts are nice and even move those out of the way because we're going to put a heaping amount of glue and we want to put it right at that junction at the bottom. Now we're going to wait for that glue to get nice and hard and then we're going to go in again and put some glue right on top. Now adding that glue at the bottom just gives it a little bit of height so these side pieces that we're adding now will fit right on top of there. And we're just going to place one in each side of that glue that we just added. Then we're going to repeat it for the other side as well. And now you can see how they are going to be attached. So once that does dry we're going to go in with our hot glue and we're going to apply a generous amount of hot glue down those channels and in the middle where that connection happens. And this will make sure that they are very secure and as you see here I applied a generous amount of that hot glue so those will not be going anywhere. So now this is the piece all secured together so I'm just going to take my little Dollar Tree broom and I'm going to remove all of those hot glue webs on the piece. And then once that's done you go ahead and take your other fence and repeat the process for a second one. And here are my both both of my iron pieces ready to go for my project. So now what I want to do is just apply two coats of this black spray paint right on top. Now this will hide all of the imperfections and also give it a nice seamless finish on top. Now while that dries we can start working on our wood frame because now our wood pieces are now dry. So I'm just going to take two of those shorter pieces and two of those longer pieces to start assembling my frame and I'm going to place the longer pieces on top and just sandwich those shorter pieces right in between. So for a temporary immediate bond I am using some hot glue with my Schoenbinder wood stick glue sticks and I'm going to be using this to adhere it together just for a temporary bond. I am going to be adding some screws later but this allows me to keep working without it letting it sit for a while to dry like you would have to do with wood glue. So I'm just applying that on all the ends and then applying all the pieces together pressing firmly in place until it sets. So I did mention I will be using screws and for this project I'll be using some one and a half inch wood screws to put on each end and I'll need four for each frame. So before I like to add my wood screws I do like to add pilot holes and this will prevent the wood from splitting when you do add your wood screws and I recommend that you do not skip this step. It definitely will save you some time and just make four pilot holes in each corner. And here are all of my holes drilled ready for those screws. And now I'm going to take my four screws and I've put my screw bit on my drill and I'm just going to start by hand threading it in and then screwing it all the way in with your drill. Now you're going to repeat this until all four corners have their screws and this will ensure that your frame is nice and sturdy. Now you repeat this whole process for your second frame until both of them are complete. Now as you notice my screws my screws do have like a gold color so in order to remedy that I'm going to make some of this nutmeg brown along with this black acrylic paint together until I get a color close to my Jacobian stain because what I will do with this when I do have it is cover up all of those screw holes. So I'm just going to take that paint and I'm going to take a fine paintbrush dip it inside that screw and around it to blend it in to the finish. And you want to repeat this all the way around the frame. So now that my iron pieces are dry we can start and add them to our frames. So sit those to the side and grab one of those frames. Now what we're going to do is take one of our iron pieces and we are going to center it right on top and as you see those arrows just overlap the frame just as planned. So I'm going to take my hot glue initially and what I want to do is flip my iron piece over and I'm going to put a bead of hot glue inside each one of those arrows and I'm going to apply that to the center of my frame. Now I'm using this hot glue as a temporary hold because like I mentioned before I do like to use nails and screws on my pieces to make sure it lasts long and I'm going to use just these small brad nails. They're only a half an inch long and I'm going to use this to apply this iron to my frame. So since they are so small I'm using my needle nose pliers to hold them. So I'm just going to place that nail right in the center of the arrow and nail that in the middle and then I'm going to repeat this all the way around the frame. Now I kind of do like how that nail is showing in there it actually gives it a rustic look but if you don't like it you could just take some black acrylic paint and I'm going to do this and show you how to do it. I'm just going to take a little dot and cover each one of those nail heads and there you have it. And now all we have to do is add our iron piece to our second frame. So now both of our frames are mounted and ready to go. So now to hang our piece all I'm going to do is add some jute twine with knots tied on each end. Now I'm going to mount a string on the top and a string on the side and that way it'll give you the option of displaying them horizontally or vertically. Now to apply these I'm just going to use my staple gun and I'm going to apply two staples at each end where that knot is on that jute string. Now you want to do this for the top and the bottom of the frame. And here are both pieces in place and now both of the frames have their hangers and they are ready to display. And here are the completed frame pieces on display. Now I think these turned out so amazing. Now I really love the high-end look of wrought iron and home decor especially when it's paired with beautiful wood tones as shown in this piece. And the texture of these fence pieces is so realistic. Now hanging these horizontally is such a great option too and it opens the door to so many creative ways to display them. Now I can definitely see them with a candle holder or a bundle of greenery or florals added to the center too. Now if you don't want to stain the wood you can also add a rustic weather finish like in gray or white and you can add it to the frame or even the iron piece itself. You all have to let me know in the comments how would you choose to decorate and display these in your home. Now if you want more ideas for this fence be sure to check out these other DIYs that I've created. Now my most recent was this triple panel wall decor piece. Now I also made a tray using one of the fence panels and I really love this wall mirror piece featuring a rustic white fence trim. And I also used them in a high-end inspired recreation. Now I did make a pair of candle holders with them and I'll be sure to link all of these tutorials in the description box below. Listen if you love DIYs on a budget please give this video a thumbs up and share this video with your friends. Make sure that you're following SheSoCraftDEE on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest for the latest news, sneak peeks, and giveaways. Thank you so much for watching today. If you like videos like these and don't want to miss the next one make sure you're subscribed. Click that subscribe button below or just click on my SheSoCraftDEE logo on your screen. 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