**Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Unique Wall Decoration**
In this article, we will walk you through the process of creating a unique wall decoration that combines art and technology.
**Step 1: Preparing the Big MDF Boards**
The first step is to prepare the big MDF boards. We started by cutting two identical squares from a solid wood sheet with a distance of 15 centimeters from each edge. The front side only had an outline for two small slits, which would later act as a backlight for the owl in between them. Next, we used spruce wood to create four smaller wood pieces for the bigger square. These got secured firmly with the help of round 5 wood screws, pole F.
**Ensuring Proper Screw Placement**
As always, make sure that your screws do not overshoot the board step. Afterwards, we flipped the sign around and did a 10 millimeter hole in each outer corner of the letters. This way, we had a starting point for the jigsaw and could also easily change the cutting direction with it.
**Cutting Out Letters**
If you want to build something similar, I can tell you that this is the most frustrating part just because it felt like an eternity to cut out all the different letters. But once this madness was complete, we ran over the edges with sandpaper to round them a bit.
**Adding Support for Back Sides**
We then did two lines on the front sides in the middle of long wood pieces of the back sides and Mark five evenly spaced spots onto it. This is where these long screws will fit through later and secure everything to the wall.
**Preparing Wallpaper**
Moving on to the wallpaper, we laid out the first trip and cut it to size. But the rest of the strips were not that easy to make though because the pattern of the wallpaper only repeats every 26.5 centimeters. Finding that exact pattern was not that easy. We used a decent amount of spray adhesive, which we applied to the MDF and afterwards slowly lowered the wallpaper onto it.
**Securing Wallpaper**
To finish the front side of the big MDF boards, we secured the overhang of the paper onto the backside with the adhesive and a lot of staples. We then repeated the exact same steps for the smaller boards.
**Adding Milky White Acrylic Pieces**
A day later, the glue was dry, and we continued by gluing small wallpaper strips into the edges of the ladders. This way, when we cut the wallpaper in this artistic way and glued the overhangs to the backsides, the complete surface of the letters inside will be covered in wallpaper.
**Adding Lighting**
Next, we lay down the milky white 2 millimeter fig acrylic pieces and determined where to cut them so that the intersection lines are not visible later on. With the help of the jigsaw, we cut the pieces to size, peeled off the protective film, and secure them to the boards with a lot of small wood screws.
**Connecting LED Strips**
For the other lighting, we used 5 meters of pretty common RGB LED strip, which we just glued onto the inside of longer wood laughs and connected the ends with a bit of wire. After peeling off the rest of the protective film, we then continued the sliding madness by gluing warm white LED strips outside the wooden square and also connected them with wire.
**Mounting Boards**
To mount the boards on the wall, we cut small rectangles into the wallpaper to set the pre-drilled holes free and finalised this board by applying foam tape onto the back. The second board was pretty much the same just with small equity pieces and additionally the power supplies for the LEDs.
**Securing Boards to Wall**
This required me to drill two big holes into the wood square to fit my wires through and I also needed to mount the power supplies with mounting clamps and connected the live and neutral wires together with terminals. Don't forget to add an AC power plug to the mix otherwise nothing will light up.
**Finalizing Project**
For the last step, we drilled holes in the wall, inserted the plastic anchors, and secured both boards very firmly with these bigger screws and by using a slightly smaller screw to secure the owl in its place. This project was complete!