I painted this closet, along with the doors, white; the other night I added stencils to the inside of the closet to give it more character. I love stenciling closets; it makes for such a nice surprise when you open the doors. It takes a normally drab storage space and makes it pretty fab, if I do say so myself!
So I already started stenciling when I remembered to take a "before" picture, so this photo is sort-of before:
The closet used to be an almond color. The doors also used to be a faux-wood. Blech. In addition to painting the closet and doors white, I added new hooks to the insides of the doors. Then, stencil:
The stencil is a Chicago star!
I couldn't find anything like it on Etsy, so I decided to make it myself. It was super easy. I downloaded an image of the Chicago star from Google, then edited the image to the size I wanted, and printed it on paper. I cut the star out, then used it as a template to trace onto a piece of plastic mylar that I bought off Amazon. Finally, I used an exact-o knife to cut the star out of the mylar, and voila! A stencil is born. The only nerve-wracking part was cutting the star from the mylar, because I wanted to make sure my lines were straight. As you can see from the result above, it turned out pretty darn good!
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