When people visit our new house or see pictures of it, one of the things I get asked
about the most is our giant word wall. It's truly one of my favorite things!
I thought I would share how we put it together for
anyone who is interested in making their own.
As we worked to build our new home over the past year,
I started gathering ideas for decorating. We knew we'd be buying lots of new furniture and I really wanted to change the look of our house so it was more modern farmhouse(ish) so I gathered tons of ideas. It was super fun shopping and looking at and dreaming of different ideas. One night while looking on Pinterest (I so love Pinterest- if you do too, you can follow me here!) I came across a picture that linked to Joanna Gaines Instagram of a wall in her home. I was immediately smitten
and knew that I had to have a wall like hers in our new house.
I immediately started thinking about how to make the wall and where to get the letters.
I shared the idea with my sweet husband who is super handy and can make
just about anything I dream up (I have the ideas, he makes them happen- we are a good team!) and he said it would be super easy. Hip hip hooray!
I found the letters on Ebay . There are tons of different options based on the size you'd like, but the set I purchased were 8 inch tall letters and included 176 numbers and letters.
The letters/numbers are hard plastic and super durable.
The set I purchased were $59.98 which was the best price I found in all of my searching.
(Search 8 inch Flexible Outdoor Portable Marquee Sign Letters)
If your space is smaller, you'll want smaller letters-
my space happens to be large so I had room for the big ones.
Once we had the letters I asked my husband to figure out the rest and of course he did.
On the first weekend in our new house- when there were tons of other things he needed to do- he finished this project for me because he knew how much I wanted it up.
How sweet is he?
He went to Lowe's (new house means a million trips to Lowe's)
and purchased five 1x2 boards.
He cut each board 60 inches long and stained them to match our beams.
He hung the boards 10 inches apart since the letters are 8 inches tall,
centered them on the wall, and nailed them up using a nail gun.
Originally he planned to cut a small channel in the boards
to hold the letters but we found that it wasn't necessary.
He said he would take them down and cut one if needed but I've never
had a single letter fall so it truly wasn't needed
because they sit on the board and lean on the wall.
I love love love how it turned out and thinking of new things to put on it is so fun!
I love that it can be used for scripture and quotes but also for holidays
and celebrating anything or anyone visiting.
A few last things....
Because I like things tidy I bought an accordion file to put my letters in
so it's easy and quick to find the letters I need. I bought mine on Amazon here.
I started an album of the different sayings I put on my wall on Facebook.
You can find it on my Facebook page HERE!
I also usually post pics of it on Instagram HERE.
