Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Inaccurate guesswork

 This is an unfinished archway.
 here is one almost completed, big improvement I think.
 my arches are not exact lol a little like my guesswork,so I put matt board behind the arch and traced the shape onto it.
 Then I decided what thickness I wanted the framing to be and cut 2 straight lenghts from matt board the desired width.
 I then ran along the edges with an embossing tool to soften them.
 The straight section was then used as a measure to draw the thickness of the arch...by simply placing ,marking,placing marking etc then joining the dots.

I then used this as a template for the other side of the archway. The matt board was coloured with a furniture touch up pen ( thanks to MiniAussie) and a small piece of matt board cut to cover the join.I must get back to my shingles now ....oh and the egg cartons are back out for another job this week.

6 comments:

  1. Always thinking outside the square! Love how the arch came up, when I looked at the first pic I couldn't figure out HOW you might have done that! Looks great! Shame about the cladding - when you've got so far, hope it arrives soon xxxx

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  2. Actually the cladding arrived this afternoon ...so its full steam ahead tomorow :)

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  3. I'm so glad I found your mini blog today! :-)

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  4. Thankyou and welcome Jennifer :)

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  5. I din't know your blog! I'll be here to see the advances of this mini-project! :)
    Hugs!

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  6. Welcome Lelen please feel free to give me advice as this is all new to me :)

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