Do-it-Yourself Kennel - An Attractive, Yet Inexpensive Gift For the Christmas Yorkie

Christmas yorkies deserve the best and cold kennels just won't take action. Whether a pooch palace for sophisticated urbanities or a rural cottage idyll for country yorkies, that is a guide to creating the doghouse of pet dreams.

So, in case you prefer a simple lifestyle, and your own house falls somewhat short of luxurious - there is absolutely no reason why your yorkie's special areas ought to be anything significantly less than comfortable and beautifully designed this Christmas season.

Starting this December, your "Christmas yorkie" will want to live somewhere which has style. So invest effort and time in your friend's accommodation; it is the least you can surrender return for the unbounded love he will offer you.

Folk-art Kennel

The essence of folk style is its native quality, needless to say, so don't worry if your painting skills are on the primitive side!

Here, you will need: Kennel, yellow oil paint, linseed oil, turpentine, sponge or rag, ruler and pencil, jar, a range of paintbrushes, including a stencil brush, acrylic paints in: red, blue, green, and black, tracing paper, thin cardboard, craft knife, sandpaper, strip of tin for roof, metal cutters, protective gloves, clear varnish, � nails.

Mix some yellow oil paint with one part linseed oil and two parts turpentine. Rub it into the wood with a sponge or rag. Measure out panels on the sides of the kennel. To create the inverted curves on the corners, draw around a jar. Paint the borders red.

Enlarge the template of the urn and draw it onto cardboard, then cut it out. Place the stencil in the center of a panel, hold firmly and stencil in blue paint. Repeat on  more info .

Use a �-inch brush to paint leaf shapes, applying more pressures by the end of the stroke, thus achieving a curving line that tapers at one end. Paint roses and tulips in broad, thick strokes.

Allow to dry, and then define petal lines with a fine paintbrush.

Outline the panels in black paint, and when you like a slightly aged effect, use sandpaper to distress the paint finish. Then paint the within of the kennel blue.

To decorate the roof, cut a strip of tin along the kennel by 12 inches (wear protective gloves). Fold in half lengthwise then cut a zigzag edge across the long sides. Sand down and rub yellow oil paint into the metal, until no excess paint is on the surface.

Varnish to seal. When dry, nail to the roof.

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