DIY An Adorable Miniature Fence Gate To Add Farmhouse Charm To Your Home Decor

Farmhouse and cottage-style décor is always a charming way to add interest to your home, especially if you love rustic style with a sense of pretty, but casual, design. While retail stores are full of fun country and farmhouse style accents like old school picket fences, wreaths, and other pieces, they can fetch a hefty price tag, especially if you're decorating your entire home farmhouse-style. YouTube's Heidi Sonboul's DIY, however, shows off a fun project to create an adorable white picket fence that is perfect for using as a part of your décor no matter the season. It uses only wooden paint sticks like these from Amazon, some jumbo craft sticks, and Tumbling Tower wooden game pieces from Dollar Tree, as well some other decorative accents to create a budget-friendly piece with a lot of impact.

The resulting wooden gate can be stood up on a table as a background to create height and layers in your décor or hung on a wall. It looks particularly charming when combined with other rustic art pieces as an assemblage to help decorate your home on a budget. Because the supplies are inexpensive, you can make several for your home, using them seasonally or all year long as a way to add additional interest behind elements like wreaths, sconces, swags, and other accents.

Lay out the paint stacks on a flat surface, placing them about 1 inch apart and creating the shape of a picket fence gate panel (higher in the middle and tapering downward on each side). Use large craft sticks and hot glue to bridge the vertical pieces, fastening everything together at the top and middle of the gate. To create the feet that will allow the gate to stand up, use wooden game pieces or blocks glued end to end, adding each set of two to both the front and back of the fence. Or, you can add hanging hardware to the back for a wall hanging décor piece. To finish the fence, add a coat of spray paint in your desired color. This DIYer uses white spray paint, dry brushed with brown and a crackle paint finish over the top, but you can opt for other matte or glossy colors. You can also stain it in a more natural shade of wood. As well, consider adding some hardware, like hinges and a handle, to make it look like a real gate.

To decorate your fence, you can enlist all manner of elements like artificial flowers and greenery woven through, floral picks, or decorative moss. Add the gate as a stunning background for wreaths, swags, or bundles of natural elements to decorate your home like an English cottage. Or use it as a textured background for other signage and ornaments. Add a chalkboard for a cute way to frame a note board, with space to add photos and mementos clipped to the bars of the fence. This would also make a pretty jewelry hanger for your space if you add tiny cup hooks to the fence for hanging accessories.