Recycled Wood American Flag + Drill Giveaway

Today, I'm sharing how to make a recycled wood American Flag...

plus I'm giving away a brand new Cordless 20 Volt MAX Lithium Drill/Driver from Black+Decker.

I built this Recycled Wood American Flag from the roof of my kids' old playhouse (no worries...they were fully aware of my intentions!). It went together quickly and was a fun little project. I've got the full tutorial (including paint details) below.

This awesome new Black+Decker 20V MAX* lightweight, cordless drill made this project a breeze. 

BONUS: I'm giving one away to a reader at the end of the post!! 

As I mentioned above, this recycled wood American Flag was made from the roof of my kids' old playscape. We loved this sweet set, but a hail storm tore it up a couple of years ago, and we ended up dismantling it shortly after. We kept the two roof sections...I really wanted to make something with them. Two years later...I finally did! ;)

I pulled apart the roofing boards with the backwards setting on the Black+Decker drill. I love how lightweight this drill is. Made this job super fast. I didn't want the roofing-look overlap, which is why I took this apart to rebuild it flat.

Pieces taken apart and ready to go back together...just slightly differently.

I ended up only using six of the eight boards for the flag. 

I also recycled the 2-2x4s as well as all of the screws.

I cut the 2x4s since I used a couple of less boards.

I laid the boards back on the shorter 2x4s. I didn't use all of the same holes...I wanted the flag to look very weathered and barnwood-ish. Leaving a few holes empty helped with that. 

I used the same old screws and drilled the boards (this time flat) into the 2x4s at each end. Again, the work was lickety split with this new Black+Decker drill.

I started painting the piece all over with white chalk paint. I used vinyl stars and painted over them with the same white...to seal them since these boards were so bumpy.

Once the white was dried, I did a simple blue milk paint over the star area.

I did tape the off the blue section to make it easier. 

I did every other board with red milk paint. 

Then I sanded the entire piece to age it a bit. 

Then I used dark wax to deepen the aging.

I used natural-colored wax to pull the darker wax off in some areas to make the aging seem more natural. 

The waxes also seal the piece, so it doesn't wear too much outdoors. 

~GIVEAWAY OVER~

Happy Red, White, and Blue Season!

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