Shutter Love!

My husband recently was blessed with this Old Shutter that was in a client's attic.  He knew I'd fall in love and would want for our home.  It was the perfect length and width for our lack of wall space.  Our home has a very rustic coastal cottage feel so this was going to fit in perfect.  The Shutter was a dull maroon color on the front and the back was dull scuffed up wood.  You can see the back, which is the side I chose to paint, in this picture but it has some of the New Green I decided to paint it.

 

I mixed some colors we had at home to come up with this soothing green which went well with our decor.  I sanded the wood by hand lightly to ruff it up a bit and make it able to grab the paint.  I wiped it down really well to get rid of all dust and dirt(it was really dirty).  I started with the main color, not a primer, because I wanted some of this natural wood to shine through once I started distressing it. 

 

I did two coats of green and then sanded the edges lightly with sandpaper.  We love very distressed pieces in our home with lots of character so I started with the edges and middle section. 

 

 

 

Next, I wanted to add our initial to this rustic shutter.  I decided on this blue at first and added starfish to the larger side of the letter.  I painted two coats of blue and I used a glue gun to glue the starfish on.





 

I wasn't happy with this blue after I hung it from the burlap on the shutter.  It needed more pop and this just wasn't it.  So I went with my first instinct when thinking of the color for the A.  It was a burnt orange that had originally been on my mind.  So, I went to walmart and bought a can of spray paint in burnt orange.  I sprayed it all and sprayed the left over starfish I had in a cream color.  I overlayed the cream colored starfish on the orginal ones which were now orange. That gave me a pop of white on the orange which was more of what I was looking for.  Here it is now....

 

The only thing left to do is to possibly add a skinny ribbon in another color going along the burlap.  I feel like there needs to be another pop in there of color and fabric.  Other than that, we are very happy with this Shutter project! 

New addition, burlap ribbon.....