DIY: painted house building blocks

Budding town planners will love designing and decorating these apartment-style DIY building blocks, providing hours of imaginative play. 

Art direction + Styling Vanessa Nouwens

Photography Wendy Fenwick

You will need:

🗹  A length of pine which is 5 x 5 cm square

🗹  Drop saw

🗹  Sandpaper

🗹  Ruler

🗹  Pencil

🗹  Resene testpot brush

🗹  Fine paint brush

🗹  Resene testpots

Step 1. Using a pencil measure your pine so your cubes are 7 x 7 cm

Step 2. Using a drop saw, cut the pine into cubes as measured. You will also need to cut the slanted roof off two of the pieces too using your saw.

Step 3. Sand off any rough edges if needed with sandpaper.

Step 4. Paint four of your cubes in one colour (we used Resene Quarter New Denim Blue and 3 cubes in Resene Triple Concrete).

Step 5. Using a fine paint brush paint your doors and window designs onto the painted blocks. We used Resene Alabaster and Resene Black.

Step 6. Stack blocks to make a tower and pop on a shelf or chest of drawers with other decorative elements, so they're always available for play.

Wall in Resene Rice Cake; table and pot plant in Resene New Denim Blue; wooden houses painted in
Resene Triple Concrete and Resene Quarter New Denim Blue with Resene Alabaster and black window and door paint details; wooden cars in Resene Triple Concrete and Quarter New Denim Blue. Plant and books stylist own.

Colours we used:

Resene New Denim Blue BUY THE TESTPOT HERE	Resene Quarter New Denim Blue BUY THE TESTPOT HERE
Resene Triple Concrete BUY THE TESTPOT HERE	Resene Rice Cake BUY THE TESTPOT HERE

Resene Alabaster BUY THE TESTPOT HERE

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