vintage style – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com Making a Handmade Modern Home one DIY project at a time. Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/francoisetmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Untitled-2-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 vintage style – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com 32 32 76357554 Pull-down Style Botanical Wall Hanging https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/pull-down-style-botanical-wall-hanging/ https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/pull-down-style-botanical-wall-hanging/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:11:08 +0000 http://francoisetmoi.com/?p=9775 There are two things I’m loving at the moment: 1.) Vintage botanical wall charts and 2.) Anything Rifle Paper Company. Seriously. Anna Bond is a paintbrush whisperer. I almost bought an art print for our home from her online shop, when I saw her gorgeous Emerald Peonies gift wrap. The scale and spacing of the painterly flowersreminded me of a vintage botanical chart, so I sprung for the gift wrap instead (which was much more affordable than her prints), and created this pretty Spring-inspired botanical wall-hanging using just wood dowels and leather string. Now if only spring would get here… Materials: One 48″ wood dowel cut into two 23″ pieces Ruler Hack saw Hand-held router fitted with 1/8″ bit and the edge guard Duct tape Sandpaper Pencil Rifle Paper Co Wrapping Paper: 1 sheet 19.5″ x 27″ Gorilla Glue, or any heavy duty glue that expands as it dries Cotton swab Leather String or twine 1. Use a straight edge to draw a line roughly 20″ long down the length of each wood dowel, leaving 1.5″ space on each end. 2. Duct tape the ends of the first wood dowel onto your worksurface with your pencil lines from step one […]

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