Provencal style shelf

Furniture and furnishings in the Provence style today are a fashion trend. Perhaps someone wants to decorate their home with an interesting detail in this style. In order to get such an interesting little thing, it is not at all necessary to go to a special store. Yes, and such piece items are expensive. The fashionable fascination with Provence and me did not pass, and I decided to make a shelf myself.
So, in order to get to work, you will need: a small piece of plywood 4, 6 or 8 mm thick, several wooden slats 1 cm thick, small nails (or carpentry glue), acrylic paints and varnish for decoration, and a manual jigsaw for cutting parts .

First you need to determine the size of the product. My shelf will have dimensions - 38 cm by 22 cm. Having made the appropriate marks on plywood and rails, I carefully drank the necessary details with a jigsaw. As a result, I got a set of four side parts, one part for the inner shelf and one main part made of plywood. Fastened parts with nails. It is quite possible to use glue or self-tapping screws. The basis of my product will be curly, therefore, on a plywood basis with the help of a compass, the corresponding marking is made. Then I cleaned the product with fine sandpaper. The wooden blank is ready.



Now you can proceed to the most creative and fascinating part of the process - to decorate. I decided to design it in a slightly unusual color scheme for this style - gray-white. Through trial and error, I determined that it is a light gray shade applied to a wooden base, when artificially aged gives an interesting effect. And in order to give my shelf an individuality, I applied it with a homemade stencil made of thick paper. You can give the product the appearance of an object that has seen the species by lightly processing some parts with fine emery paper. So I did.


This is the result. The final touches - coated with matte varnish in several layers and made fasteners (used the usual for paintings). Shelf in the style of Provence is ready. Getting to work, do not forget that imagination and courage work wonders. You just need to believe in yourself.