BUILD A CANVAS FACADE!
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I built a new deck this year and want to make it into a stone mausoleum or something so I need to create a wall around it. I have looked all over the internet for ideas and found a few different designs... one that struck me was the Canvas Castle by Chris Olsen. I believe he painted the drop cloth gray with latex paint. 3 gallons of it... now I'm a on a budget at the moment so I decided I could DYE the drop cloth gray instead of paint it... I wouldn't have to worry about cracking and it would be just as flexible. All I would have to do would be to paint the grout lines on... So it begins... |
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 I wasn't sure how many dye packs it would take so I mixed up 2 of them according to the directions and then added the dye to the washing machine. I then inserted the drop cloth and let it churn away for 1 cycle of the washer. Do you hear that sound? It's my wife yelling something about her next batch of clothes being all gray... yet... I hear nothing! |
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After it was finished drying... this is what I have... A gray canvas drop cloth. Not as dark as I was hoping so I'll put it through again. I'm looking for a darker gray. I think....
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This is more the shade I'm looking for... 2 more packs of dye and it
really won't hold anymore colour. |
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| It's hard to see but I've laid out the grey cloth on the driveway and drawn the picture on in blue marker. |
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| This is the roller I used for the grout lines. It is thin and gives a nice uneven width line depending on how hard you press. | |||
| Then I rolled on the brick pattern using the foam wedge roller and a dark gray "miss-tint" I picked up at a decorating store. |
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Here I've gone back with the gray paint from my tombstones and highlighted the leading edge and top of each brink to give a bit of a 3D effect and make them look more like brick. | ||
| Here is the finished installed Canvas Facade. | |||
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