DIY: Wall Decals, Edgar Allan Poe

by Schnauzevoll

Hey there, Internet!

My living room is not yet what I focus on in my new flat but sometimes one has to DIY a tiny bit and work on things that you usually wanted to do later. Those moments that the creativity bugs bite. There is that empty wall above the couch, above a small shelf thing and next to my absinthe rack. Nothing that looked too empty but to me did feel unfinished whenever I entered that room and looked at it. Wall decals can look great and there are affordable ones in DIY stores as well as online but I had some black adhesive foil thing left and so I thought I could just create something that would match this room as well as feel ‘me’.

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left: detail, the text outlines done with silver edding, center: in progress, when I noticed I was running out of space, right: finished wall decal.

I was tempted to do something that would look like autumnal / wintery trees with branches, maybe a crow or spiderwebs but that probably would have been too heavy looking for the tiny room especially since I have the huge frame with my dark painting (see post angel of death?) on another wall and black curtains in front of the shower room and soon black curtains in front of the window. So what would look better? There are a few quotes that I really like because they can make you think for hours, inspire discussions or for arts, like Edgar Allan Poes ‘A dream within a dream’.

I had some matte black foil, silver eddings and scissors for the text / letters and shiny black for additional bats in the end. Of course one can draw with a pencil on the back of the foil, measure to make the letters same size, matching, equal looking and so on but I prefer each letter to be different. In ones personal handwriting same letters look similar but probably never are exactly the same, I wanted the text to look ‘alive’, irregular, letter wise and the words as well, like the text would be dancing. That’s why I drew directly on the foils front with the silver eddings and then let them dry before cutting and then, also without a pencil line sticking the letters to the wall. The silver edding outlines would still be visible on the matte black text and some shiny black bats would fly around it. At first the last ‘dream’ was planned to be in the second line as well but when I noticed I ran out of space it went to a third row and would simply be surrounded by bats.

Would this be something you would try to DIY or would you prefer premade, ready to buy decals? Have a nice evening!

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