Showing posts with label wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wood. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

New Age Commercial Sign

I am excited to show you the sign that we have been working on.  
  My friends Brian and Melissa are building a wellness and massage therapy center in American Fork, Utah and they have asked me to help with a few items for their offices.  Their office is so beautiful and they have put a lot of hard work into it. I hope to show you more of that later.
   I have been helping with getting their signs and vinyl logos on the building. This is the design idea I drew up for the outside of their business that will hang on the exterior brick wall. 
After getting the wood pieces cut, stained and assembled we also did the laser cut metal and wood letters. 
Lots of adhesives, many trips to Home Depot, and Lowe's, a lot of pressure and time later, we had the sign on it's way. My partner in design, Rebecca,  is helping me with putting this sign together. I need to get a really good photo of us not covered in stain or adhesives before I'll post a picture though. 
The wood cut outs helped give the sign some depth and shadow. The metal on top adds a bit of flare! 
The wood is still wet from the outdoor top coat sealer in these pictures but it should dry to a nice semi-gloss finish. 
The weather started getting rough outside so we brought it inside to dry. I'm excited to help mount this to their exterior brick wall tomorrow!  The reverse side has bracing and brackets to add sturdiness but not a high profile away from the wall. We really wanted the logo and the lettering to be what stands out. 
I'll post some photos when it's on the building.  I'm excited to do this commercial project and I hopefully have another big one in January coming up. What do you think, do you like the sign? Please leave comments or share if you like it to keep me active in your FB feed.

 
Thanks!
Love, Lori

Friday, March 27, 2015

Behind the scenes

I have been doing a lot of prep work on my pieces this week,  aka sanding and using wood filler.  Not such exciting work but necessary for a good outcome.  
I am currently working on this table and chair set.  This one will have a painted base and chairs,  with a stained top. 
These chairs will look the same when finished and the whole set will match nicely.  One chair had a broken spindle that someone else repaired but there was chunks missing at the base.  Time to bring out my wood-filler friend. 
I am also working on this dresser for my Mother-in-law.  This piece will be fun and a bit more artistic,  I can't wait to show you when it's done!  
Right now it too is getting the basics worked on with wood filler and sanding.  I am doing this and the table and chairs at the same time because both will require primer and it's easier to just dedicate a day to setting up multiple pieces for spraying.  Not the most exciting blog post but the basics are important! 
I saw this picture on Facebook and her poor feet are horrible.  It illustrates a good point though.  If you want a beautiful ballet you will have dancers with terrible feet.  If you want beautiful restored furniture,  it takes a lot of boring sanding and waiting for wood filler to dry. Putting in the hard work is the only way to have the outcome you desire.  Hopefully I will get to show you the pretty stuff soon!
  Have a great day! 

Love, Lori