After 18 months of Living with Art projects, I have displayed or created art in a lot of unexpected places: My pantry doors, my laundry room light switch, even my bathroom trash can.  By this point, my husband and I both eyeball everything that doesn’t qualify as art with some degree of suspicion, and that brings me to our doorbell cover, which is to say the casing that covers the bells or the electronic chimes or the small family of singing mice chained to a tiny radiator – whatever you have in place to alert you to the presence of outlanders.

Doorbell Cover 1

Our doorbell casing is radiator-free, because we are virtuous that way.

 

Doorbell Cover 2

It’s still a very bare, visually unappealing thing, though, even if it isn’t cruel to singing rodents.

For this week’s project, I removed the unsightly doorbell casing, sanded it, applied several coats of gesso (as is my wont), and started in with a rust-colored base, which I eventually set off with magenta and blue.

Gesso Paint

Since I more or less freak out whenever the doorbell rings unexpectedly, I decided to include some text, and just for grins, I used these self-adhesive stencils I found on clearance at the grocery store on an emergency 2am yarn run.

Stencils

iknmlopqr is pretty much what I say every time I have to make an emergency 2am yarn run, but also when I’m home alone and a sales person rings the bell

Here is my finished casing, which may or may not reflect my feelings about being suddenly interrupted by a door-to-door solicitor.

Truth

At least my doorbell is now self-aware.

Finished - On the Wall

Finished - In the Light

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Ann D'Angelo is a dedicated drinker of diet Coke who has never spotted a thrift store she didn't want to visit or an item she didn't want to alter. Check out Ann's shop.

3 Comments

sarah · April 8, 2016 at 11:59 am

Ha! Loud and rude. Love it.

Ang West · April 8, 2016 at 3:23 pm

Beautiful rude girl

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