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Ombre Painted Wood Sign For Farmhouse Master Bathroom

In this post I show you how to make an ombre painted wood sign for farmhouse master bathroom. If you love the ombre look, this is definitely a unique DIY project for you!

The ombre trend took the world by storm in the 2000’s and is still rockin’… ombre hair, ombre nails, ombre painted walls. Just about everything can be painted ombre. I remember when I saw this ombre effect on this painted sign years ago, I knew I needed to make my own ombre painted wood sign!

If you don’t know what ombre is, it gradually changes from one color to another, typically from light to dark.

We revealed our farmhouse master bathroom makeover last week and I can’t wait to start showing you all of the fun DIYs!

When I was planning our farmhouse master bathroom, I knew I needed to make something for this small wall next to the door. It just looked like something was missing. I love how easy this ombre effect was to create on this wood sign.

Even if this is the first wood painted sign you’ve ever made, I promise that you can do it.

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Supplies needed to make an ombre painted wood sign: a plain wood sign, decorative metal lettering that reads

Supplies for Ombre Painted Wood Sign:

How to make an ombre painted wood sign step by step!

A circular wood sign sits on newspaper, painted a mint green.

Step 1. Paint sign with main paint color.

Start using a foam brush to paint the entire sign with your main paint color. To get the ombre effect, you will layer the lighter and darker colors on top of the base color.

The base color for the ombre wood sign, tested out on a torn piece of cardboard.
Using a paint brush to paint the ombre wood sign with the base color - a light mint green.

Step 2. Add in a lighter color.

To make the color lighter, just add a dab of white acrylic paint to your main color. Mix together the paint colors together on a piece of cardboard or paper plate.

I used a bristle paint brush like this for the lighter and darker layers of the ombre sign. You can continue adding more white paint as you get to the top of the ombre painted wood sign.

Mixing mint green acrylic paint with a drop of black acrylic paint to make a darker color for the ombre paint effect.
Creating an ombre paint effect on a circular wood sign by painting the lower half of the sign with a slightly darker paint color.

Step 3. Layer on a darker color.

Just like you made the lighter color by mixing in white acrylic paint, you make the darker color by adding in a dab of black paint. Remember a little goes a LONG way with black paint.

Continue adding layers of the darker color as you make your way to the bottom of the ombre painted wood sign.

Painting the edges of the ombre wood sign with black acrylic paint.

Step 4. Paint edge.

I decided to paint the edge of the wood sign with black paint to make it look a little more “finished”.

Step 5. Attach wire word.

Don’t you just love this wire word design with “You & Me”? I wasn’t too sure how I was going to attach it, but I knew I’d figure it out! I ended up using a fishing line so it was almost invisible looking.

An ombre painted wood sign with metal words hanging up on a white wall.

The “you & me” sentiment is perfect for a place like a master bathroom.

A closer look at the ombre wood sign with metal letters, twisted into saying
Part of our master bathroom - the ombre wood sign hangs on the white walls, next to a toilet and floating shelves decorated with farmhouse style decor.

Are you ready to bring the ombre effect into your home decor? Creating an ombre painted wood sign is easy by simply layering lighter and darker versions of your main paint color.

There are so many different color combinations and types of signs that you can make using the ombre paint technique.

What type of ombre painted wood sign would you make?

A ombre painted wood sign with metal letters hanging on a white wall, with text overlay that reads

Check out the full room reveal for our farmhouse master bathroom where this ombre painted wood sign was made for!

A collage of photos showing all the new farmhouse style decor in the master bathroom, with text overlay that says 'farmhouse bathroom


The video of our shiplap wall and floating shelves in our farmhouse master bathroom literally went VIRAL. It was even shared by BHG, Jordin Sparks and Scott Dudick.  It was so cool to see something that we did get noticed by SO many people. If you are not one of the 20,000,000 people that saw this on Hometalk’s Facebook page, here’s a little time lapse version of our farmhouse bathroom transformation!


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How to Make an Ombre Painted Wood Sign

How to Make an Ombre Painted Wood Sign

Yield: 1 Wood Sign
Active Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Estimated Cost: $11

Love the look of ombre decor? Learn how to make this stylish ombre painted wood sign that we created for our farmhouse style master bathroom.

Instructions

  1. Paint sign with main paint color.
  2. Add in lighter color.
  3. Layer on darker color.
  4. Paint edge.
  5. Attach wire wood.

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