Panel on a wall of wood: two ways to decorate your home

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

A panel on a wooden wall can be selected or made to fit any style of room

The word deficit has remained far in the past and it is not even known to the modern generation. But now people are faced with a different complexity, namely, the uniformity of goods. This applies to interior items to no lesser extent. Mountains of identical paintings and interior items do not contribute to the creation of an individual style.

So what to do? Accept? There is a better way to decorate the interior with your own hands and in this article we will tell you how to make a wall panel of wood on your own.

Option one: three-dimensional panel

Wooden panels with carved unusual patterns will become a worthy decoration of any wall

The main advantage of creating wall panels is that you are limited only by your own imagination. You can bring any idea to life, the main thing is to have sufficient perseverance and patience. And of course, we need a certain set of tools.

A three-dimensional panel is an image, but not printed on the surface, but cut out on it. Wait, do not immediately flip through this page, for the manufacture of a three-dimensional image, you do not need woodcarving skills. Everything can be made much simpler.

So, if you have the makings of an artist, then you can create a picture yourself, if they are not, you can simply find a suitable image on the Internet and print it in real size. From this drawing we will make a stencil. Just cut out all the excess with scissors and leave only the outline, which will subsequently be our pattern.

In the meantime, when you cut out the stencil, we’ll give you a list of everything we need for making wood panels on the wall.

Tools and materials

We see an example of professional tools for creating carved wooden panels.

Required:

• Stencil. We have already talked about its manufacture.
• Elements for a frame or finished baguette.
• Electric jigsaw with small files.
• Pencil or marker.
• Drill and drill for it with a diameter of about 6 millimeters.
• PVA glue or hot glue and a gun for applying it.
• Paint brushes and roller.
• Varnishes are transparent and paints depending on the composition you choose.
• Sandpaper of various grinding.

Of course, this is not a complete list, since in many respects it will be supplemented depending on what materials you have chosen for manufacturing and what complexity your drawing will be. In any case, the process is creative, and many interesting thoughts and decisions come at the time of work, so just give you a guide for the manufacture of our chosen option and from our materials.

And we will use a natural wooden board as a substrate, which, if desired, can be replaced with plywood or fiberboard, which is much easier to work with. So, for the job.

Manufacture

We see the process of creating a wooden panel with a jigsaw

Our wooden panel on the wall will be made of boards, but because of its size, the width of one board we will not be enough, so we have to glue several segments together. With PVA glue, the process will look a little more complicated, since the glued elements will need to be pressed tightly against each other and held for several days, so the best option would be to use hot-melt glue, which hardens much faster and holds parts no less firmly.

So, our boards froze and now we have a canvas that needs to be given the necessary size. We pick up the jigsaw and cut off the excess parts. Now it's time to apply the selected drawing, through a pre-prepared stencil.

We apply it to the canvas and transfer the drawing with a pencil.We have obtained a composition, which now needs to be cut out and here the most crucial stage begins, when you can not make mistakes.

In any convenient part of the drawing, we drill a hole. We need it in order to lower the jigsaw blade there. And now, slowly, trying as much as possible to go along the drawn lines, we cut out our drawing.

Advice! Choose the smallest files for the jigsaw. They are easier to make curly cuts and they do not leave behind burrs and chips.

If in some places there are line breaks or complex turns that cannot be mastered by a jigsaw, then we drill another hole in another part of the blade and start sawing it from the other side. In principle, everything is ready, and if you do not know how to work with a jigsaw at all, then the video in this article, which shows detailed instructions, will help you figure it out, but in the meantime we will move on to the next stage.

Dressing

By adding a color wooden panel, you can easily add it to the interior and design of the room

Now that our drawing is cut out, it needs to be carefully sanded. First, we go through the places of the cut with an emery cloth with coarse grain and remove large bully. Then we clean the remaining irregularities with the smallest paper. The drawing is ready.

To give it a more natural look, the surface can be covered with a wood stain, and after it dries, scratch the top layer with a wire brush along the fiber growth. This will show the texture of the tree and more clearly express the picture.

Now it remains to cover all this with a layer of varnish and let it dry well. Then you can put our foam in a frame and hang it on the wall.

Option Two: Photo Printing on a Tree

Using photo printing on a tree, you can create an original panel to your taste

Thought to transfer the image to a wooden surface is possible only in a special studio? Nothing like this, you can do it at home. Moreover, unlike the first method, we don’t need an electric instrument or art skills at all.

Just choose any photo you like and print it on a laser printer, and we will tell you how to transfer it to a wooden surface.

What do we need for this

In the photo we see the preparation for transferring the photo or picture to a wooden surface

So:

• The basis for transferring photos. It can be any wooden surface. Choose what you like in texture and color. There are no restrictions.
• Acrylic gel. Sold at any hobby store. For a panel measuring 50 by 50 centimeters, just one tube is enough.
• Set of art brushes of different sizes and densities. Part of the brushes will be needed for possible staining, if necessary, part for applying a layer of varnish and gel.
• Rubber roller, or a special tool called a squeegee.
• Clear wood varnish or special colorless paraffin. The price of paraffin is slightly higher, although outwardly it is difficult to distinguish it from ordinary varnish.

And of course, our photo printed in real size. Everything is ready? Then you can start creating magic, and looking ahead, we note that this process is most similar to magic.

Transfer the picture to the tree

Photos on the tree look original and will become a worthy decoration of the interior

Note that we did not just mention that the photo should be printed on a laser printer. Only such images can be transferred to a tree. Inkjet shots will not work here.

So, we take our canvas and cover it with a thin layer of acrylic gel. Let it stand for a few minutes and attach the photo face down to the surface.

The picture will probably lie unevenly, and under it there will be bubbles that need to be dispersed as much as possible. To do this, we need either a rubber roller or squeegee, which is a small rubber spatula designed specifically for this kind of work.

Advice! If after all the manipulations there are still bubbles on the surface, there is a way to get rid of them. Just pierce the bubble with a needle and smooth this place.

When the surface is smoothed, it must be left for a day at room temperature and in no case should you touch it with your hands or try to look under the paper. Be patient, the main magic is yet to come.

After a day, you need to remove the paper. It will not be easy to do this, and you will have to make some efforts, but the result is worth it. In the process of peeling the paper, you will see how our ordinary wooden panel on the wall turns into a real work of art.

When all the paper is removed, you will see that our photo has completely transferred to the tree, and now it is necessary to protect it with a layer of varnish, and as an addition, you can age a little. To do this, take a sandpaper null, and with light movements wipe it with a picture. The image becomes like in an old photo, and it looks very impressive.

That's all, it remains only to put on a frame and hang our panel on the wall. Agree, nothing complicated, but what an impressive result.

And in conclusion

As you can see, wooden panels on the wall can be very diverse, and we have given only two options. In fact, there are many more and the whole thing is only in your imagination.

Do not be afraid to get down to business. Even a bad experience is also an experience, and, as you know, it is priceless. Try, experiment, and then your house will be decorated with truly exclusive items, about which you can proudly say that no one else in the world has such.