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’.
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!
splendid work! Most admirable how you take creative charge of your life and space.
Thank you 🙂
I really like the quote 🙂
Thank you! Poe has a lot of great quotes I think…
I’ve never had wall decals but this DYI is brilliant!
Thank you ❤
This is fantastic! I love it! 😀 I think the final “dream” on a third line looks just right. I’ve bought premade decals, but I would make my own if I could do them as well as you did.
Thank you! And the more i look at it the less i care about the third row, so maybe let’s just pretend it was meant to be this way *lol*
Fehlt da nicht “within a dream”? Naja, so ist es auch schön! Ich bin nicht so begabt mit Cutter und Schere und würde darum gekaufte Stencils bevorzugen. Ich überlege eine Wand im Wohnzimmer mit Tafelfarbe zu streichen damit Gäste mit Kreide darauf malen können. Quasi wie ein ständig anderes Stencil!
Das bild was du meinst ist das ‘mittendrin’ bild, da müsste iiirgendwann noch ein drittes laden auf dem auch das within a dream drauf ist 🙂 aber danke!
Oh tafelfarbe für besuch ist immer toll, find ich super!
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Looks Amazing!! Well done! Would love to try making my own decals!
(We saw on the news tonight, what happened in Germany! I am so very sorry!!!!)
Thank you! All those attacks lately are horrible and getting closer, I am happy so far none of my friends were harmed even though I had friends close to the Munich and Berlin spots and been to both places quite often as well (been to Berlin two days later, probably would have gone to the christmas fair if this didn’t happen… not afraid but stuff like that makes me lose interest in activities XD) hoping those things will get less soon!
Das sieht sehr cool aus! Was Schriften angeht, habe ich leider kein sonderlich gutes Händchen…
Danke dir 🙂 ich war mir diesmal ehrlich gesagt irgendwie unsicher aber am Ende passts denk ich ganz gut!
This looks very professional! You could probably sell a collection of dark/moody/thoughtful quotes done up as wall decals, people would like that…
Meno<3
Thank you, that would be one of the things on the list that would go for sale on my etsy store but it seems I was too naive thinking I could open it this February *needs time* have a great start into the new month! ❤
I know what you mean, takes a lot of work. Best of luck with it!!!
Meno<3