I've been admiring pieces from @aleksandrazee on IG for a while and figured I could make one myself rather than pay her $2K for one (which I could never bring myself to do). I thought it came out nice, and thought I'd share some in progress photos as well as how I approached it.I cut strips of wood from a 1/4" plywood sheet and essentially nailed/glued the pieces onto another sheet of plywood. The overall piece is 6'X3'. I think if I did it again, I would go to the home depot, as they have redwood strips in the gardening section that are about the right size to begin with and have a little more of a rough and rustic feel to them, which is kind of nice for these pieces.Once you come up with the pattern/design (I just copied the basic design and chose my own color scheme to go with the colors in my house), draw 4 quadrants in your base sheet and nail 2 pieces of wood to fence off one quadrant. You can now use this as a secure wall to push the pieces in tight and you don't have to worry about to big of an area fitting/moving while you're working. Once you're done cutting and fitting the pieces you have there, you can move on to the next quadrants, one at a time. As long as your quadrant lines and fences were placed accurately, you don't have to worry about each quadrant having the right angles in relation to each other.Once you're done fitting, you should be relatively close to an even edge around the sides. You can trim it with a circular saw if you want, but if you're within 1/8" all the way along the side, you can do what I did and attach a frame piece with a small bevel to trim out the edges and make it look clean. You don't want to bevel too much because you want the points of many of the pieces to appear to match right up to the edge of the piece.Another thing that I would do differently next time is just glue in the pieces. I don't like the indentations the 18 gauge nailer leaves and the shine of the small nail that reflects if you're looking at it in the right light. This is what drive me nuts about @aleksandrazee pieces, they're all nailed in and you can see the marks and the nails. That's just high production, but I think you should have a better quality product if you're going to charge top $$ for it.All in - I counted about 18-20 hours of work and maybe $120 in materials. This includes everything like screwing around with stains and painting the boards, etc. I could probably do this in 10 now that I would have a clear plan and less screwing around with stains, etc. All the cutting done on a beginner's table saw.This is my first post on here, and I have more amateur wood working posts on IG if you search the hashtag #dwalldesigns . Let me know what you think, I love to get criticism and tips on how to do things better too!Final hung piece:https://www.instagram.com/p/BQs4inxhpqObjtVetDrPvlgQFTp_6c7q417gTQ0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkThis is in progress as I had set up the fence that I mentioned to secure the first quadrant. As you can see, I had just cut 4 of each small piece in advance so they would be identical in theory. via /r/DIY http://bit.ly/2AdGpFv
