Clark Place: painted door numbers

As a former pizza delivery person, I'm ashamed to admit

that I didn't have house numbers on my house since we moved in.

So I decided it was time to add some.

I decided the door was a good place to put some after seeing some of these:

Hugs and Punches

11 Magnolia Lane

Pretty, right?

Instead of using metal house numbers or cutting vinyl letters on a Cricut,

which can both be limiting, I decided to paint them on.

This was my door before

I found this tutorial for painted house numbers here.

I really liked the numbers she used so I dowloaded them for free then enlarged them

until they looked good on my door

(I think they were about 5 inches tall and the "No." was about half that.)

Then I cut those numbers out, traced them onto some contact paper,

and cut the numbers out on the contact paper

I stuck the stencil I had created on the door and then used a sponge

brush to paint the numbers on the door using a

Behr sample Indoor/Outdoor paint in the color "Broadway."

Using contact paper was a mistake because this is what happened

The contact paper didn't stick to the door well enough so the paint seeped underneath.

Luckily, I had some Goof Off laying around so I took a rag and, using only my index finger, wiped off the messy parts. This took quite some time and the paint didn't completely come off, which you may be able to see in the picture below. So I recommend using vinyl or something with a stronger adhesive as a stencil.