Easily Turn A Dollar Tree Organizing Essential Into The Cutest Hanging Porch Decor

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Decorating your porch is a great way to enhance the curb appeal of your home and make your place a bit more inviting for your guests. With just a few small aesthetic touches, you'll find it easier than ever to enjoy using this space during the warmer months of the year. You don't have to spend a fortune to get great looking decor items for your porch, either. For example, you can DIY a cute, country-style pallet sign with just a handful of inexpensive items from the Dollar Tree. For this project, all you need to do is glue together a couple of Crafter's Square Wooden Pallets with leftover paint sticks, stencil on a few words for the sign, and hang up the fixture with a short length of rope. To make the finished decor piece a bit more functional, you can screw on an Over the Door 6-Hook Hanger along the bottom as well.

To complete this project, you'll need wood glue, a pair of small screws, E6000 adhesive, and a bottle of antique wax paint. FolkArt Home Decor Antique Wax Paint, for example, should work perfectly here. If you're going to paint on the letters with a stencil, you'll also need some white or other bright-colored paint. If you're not going to use a stencil, you can print your own vinyl stickers or decals. Your new sign should look nice alongside all other sorts of tiny details that can add rustic charm to your porch on a budget.

Before you get started, you'll need to locate some wooden paint sticks that are approximately as thick as the planks of wood on the back of your pallets. You can use leftover wood scraps instead if you have them. Next, lay your pallets down flat so that their front boards run together. Then, cut a couple of small pieces from your paint sticks or wood scraps that you can use for linking together the pallets along their backsides. Glue them down, and then get a few additional larger pieces that fit along the bottom of the backsides of the pallets. Glue these down as well; you'll hang your hooks from these pieces later. Now you can cover everything with a light layer of your antique wax paint.

Once the paint has dried, flip over the pallets. Stencil on your sign's letters, or apply your decals if you're using those instead. Alternatively, you could print your house numbers on the fixture to turn it into an address sign. Next, use E6000 adhesive to glue on the ends of your rope on the backside near the top of the pallets, so that the sign has something to hang on. Lastly, attach your hooks to the back by screwing them onto the wood pieces that you glued down along the bottom earlier. You can hang a couple of small plants or a wreath from the hooks to turn your front porch into an outdoor oasis.