• Home
  • About
  • My Home
  • Project Gallery
    • Decorating
    • Painting & Antiquing Techniques
    • Arts & Crafts
    • Build It
    • Electrical
    • Plumbing
    • Gift Ideas
    • Sewing
    • Tool Tutorials
    • Home & Auto Maintenance
    • Landscaping & Gardening
    • Photography
    • Recipes
    • PHG TV
  • My Toolbox
  • Contributors

Pretty Handy Girl

A DIY Blog Empowering You to Complete Your Own Project. Build it, Fix it and Do it yourself. Home project tutorials.

  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Home
  • About
  • My Home
  • Project Gallery
    • Decorating
    • Painting & Antiquing Techniques
    • Arts & Crafts
    • Build It
    • Electrical
    • Plumbing
    • Gift Ideas
    • Sewing
    • Tool Tutorials
    • Home & Auto Maintenance
    • Landscaping & Gardening
    • Photography
    • Recipes
    • PHG TV
  • My Toolbox
  • Contributors
Home » arts and craft » DIY Painted Pool Sign

DIY Painted Pool Sign

May 27, 2015 Addicted 2 DIY 7 Comments

77shares
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

DIY-Painted-Pool-Sign

Hey everyone!  Katie again from Addicted 2 DIY.  It’s hard to believe, but it’s been two months now since we finished building our dream pool.  If you’ve ever wondered what you can learn (and save) by contracting your pool out yourself, I’ve got all of the handy details on my blog.  Now that we have our own pool to make fun family memories in, I thought a fun sign would be a great addition.  I designed this sign based off of one we had by our pool when I was a kid.  According to my mom, this one looks way nicer.  She wouldn’t lie to me, right?

To help you make your own sign, I’m also including the free SVG file I created for you to download.  Please use it for personal use only.

Here’s what you’ll need for your own sign:

  •  1×2 plywood project board (2’x4′)
  • 3 – 3/4″ x 3′ square poplar dowels
  • 1 1/2″ brad nails
  • brad nailer
  • wood glue
  • 220 grit sandpaper
  • orbital sander
  • 24″ clamps
  • wood filler
  • paint colors of your choice
  • paint roller and/or paintbrush
  • adhesive vinyl
  • transfer paper
  • electronic cutting machine (I have a Silhouette CAMEO)
  • Welcome to Our OOL SVG file

Start by cutting your plywood down to 12″ x 20″.  If you don’t have the ability to do this, you can always ask the helpful employees at the home improvement store.  Cut the square dowels on a 45 degree angle to frame the plywood.  The inside measurements should be 12″ and 20″.

supplies-for-wood-sign

Frame the plywood with the dowels using wood glue.

add-trim-to-sign

Clamp the edges…

build-wood-sign clamp-trim-to-plywood

…and nail them to the plywood with your brad nailer.

nail-trim-to-plywood

Since the plywood is only 1/2″ thick, you’ll have to be careful not to nail the trim too high.  I had one nail go astray, but I was able to get it out with needle-nose pliers.  It’s nothing a little wood filler can’t fix later on.

remove-nail-from-wood-trim

When your entire piece is assembled, sand it with 220 grit sandpaper to get rid of any rough spots.  Paint the entire sign, front and back, with your base color.  I love using sample size jars of paint for projects like this.

painting-wood-sign

Cut your message out on an electronic cutting machine.  Weed out the vinyl design and cover it with transfer tape.

vinyl-for-wood-sign

Peel the backing off of the vinyl and carefully center it over the plywood face.  Smooth it with a scraping tool (or credit card.) Carefully peel off the transfer paper.

put-vinyl-on-wood-signGrab your second paint color and stencil the design with a paint brush or roller.  You can mask off the frame of the sign with painter’s tape or paper to protect it from any paint mishaps.  I opted to go slow and carefully paint inside the frame.

paint-for-wood-sign

Once your design is completely stenciled, carefully peel the vinyl off of the face of the sign.

stencil-swimming-pool-sign

You can leave your sign as it, or distress it a bit.  Whatever you like!  I love distressing things, but I decided that I really liked a cleaner look for this sign.

sign-for-pool

swimming-pool-sign

I’m so happy with how it turned out!  I’m no graphic designer, so I spent several hours coming up with a design that was just right, but it was well worth it.  My kids think it’s hilarious!  Let’s just hope everyone that comes and visits us will follow the rules!  I’m thinking it will look great somewhere near our grotto/water slide.  Once we get that area landscaped, I’ll give it a more permanent location.  Now that this sign is done, I kind of want to make another one for the waterfall that says “Mt. Wannahockaloogie” from Finding Nemo.  We have a “Nemo” mosaic inside the grotto, so it would tie in perfectly.  I may be the only one that gets it, but that’s okay.

Katies-sign

~learn more about Katie~

 

Pin for later!

DIY Pool Sign | Pretty Handy Girl

77shares
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

You might also like:

arts and craft, Beach, clamps, Contributor, decor, Do It Yourself, Home Decor, stencil, Summer

Comments

  1. Meagan says

    March 7, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    Love this idea. Can be used pretty much anywhere in the house. And I love the saying as well for the pool. Thanks for sharing this great idea!

    Reply
  2. Jordan says

    June 2, 2015 at 9:09 am

    Very cute sign! I especially love the choice of color there. Lots of potential for cute beachy looks with this! Thanks so much for sharing!

    Reply
  3. Colleen Taylor says

    May 27, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    Love this, we have no P in our pool either & intend to keep it that way! Thanks for this chuckle today!

    Reply
    • Addicted 2 DIY says

      June 1, 2015 at 11:43 am

      Thanks Colleen!

      Reply
  4. Paige says

    May 27, 2015 at 7:30 am

    Loving this sign, super cute!

    Paige
    http://thehappyflammily.com

    Reply
    • Addicted 2 DIY says

      June 1, 2015 at 11:44 am

      Thank you, Paige!

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Hi, I'm Brittany aka Pretty Handy Girl. I like the smell of coffee and sawdust in the morning. I live to break stereotypes and empower you to take on your own DIY project.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Saving Etta - Follow the Adventure to Flip a Historic House

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Privacy Policy

Affiliate Link Disclosure:

Pretty Handy Girl is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Copyrighted Content Permission

All images and tutorials on this blog are copyrighted material. Please contact me if you would like to borrow any media (photos, video or audio files), tutorials, or ideas from this blog. 99% of the time I would be happy to allow you to use one photo with appropriate credit and link back to PrettyHandyGirl.com (preferably to the same post it was borrowed from.) I can be contacted via email: PrettyHandyGirl (at) gmail.com.

© 2021 · Pretty Handy Girl ·