Using Your Back Fence to Extend Your Porch

• 1). Decide what theme you want to create. Appropriate outdoor themes might include suns and sun dials, Bacchus and grapes for a grape arbor, or frogs or sea horses for areas around a swimming pool. Decor that takes its cue from your back porch also provides a good option.
  
  
• 2). Go to a store that specializes in outdoor wall art, and get ideas that fit your theme. Keep durability in mind.
  
  
• 3). Take pictures with your camera phone, or draw sketches of the items you like. Write down where you saw each piece, its price and its measurements.
  
  
• 4). Narrow down the pieces you'd like in your outdoor gallery once you get home. You'll do this by looking at your sketches or pictures taken in the store and reading the notes you made about them.
  
  
• 5). Draw a rough diagram of your outdoor gallery on drawing paper or in a computer design program, which will allow you to see how the elements fit together. Any ideas for stenciling should end up on this diagram as well.
  
  
• 6). Look into appropriate outdoor paints once you've decided on the piece you want in your outdoor gallery. Items such as plain terra cotta wall hangings respond very well to paint.
  
  
• 7). Buy your pieces, then paint them if needed. Let them dry for a few days.
  
  
• 8). Measure the area on your fence according to the diagram you've drawn. Using a piece of masking tape, mark where you'll install each piece of your outdoor gallery.
  
  
• 9). Paint your stencils onto your marked area, using your drawn diagram as a guide. Let dry.
  
  
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  Hang your wall art according to your diagram after your stencils have dried.