Amazing!  I've been wondering if there was a way to make my new garage door on my old house look more like the original one and I think you have given me the answer!  I never saw the original, but the remaining hardware suggests that it's not unlike your painted version. Mind if I use yours as an inspiration?

thanks,
and if you like i can post the original.
(the original is better haha, so i only did mine)
and it would be so cool if someone else uses the idea.
but only when you promise to post it here, lol.
i have to warn you it was more work then i expected it to be.
it took me a whole week.
the most work was the black shadow lines.
i put tape on the door to paint it easy(that cost me a day, it was hard to make the lines go on), but because the surface was not so smooth all the paint got under the tape.
so i had to do it over by hand.

so good luck when you gonna start.
you need to use a good primer and then it doesn`t matter if you use paint for the inside or the outside on top.
well...only if your garage is metal like mines.
when its wood i guess you can only use paint for the outside.

Thanks for being so generous!  I'd love to see the original.  I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to do it until next summer since the rain is about to start here in Oregon, USA and I've many other projects and work to do.

So there's a cabinet manufacturer who has a warehouse discount store that sells overruns, mis-orders, etc. as well as random cabinet doors and drawer fronts CHEAP in my city.  So I bought a handful of the doors for various projects that so far have all turned out to be chalk boards made with chalkboard paint applied to the center panel.  However, I bought some magnetic paint so these two are magnetic chalkboards!  Anyone there is one for each of my two nieces whose birthdays are today (11 years) and the end of October (9 years).  Their mom is redoing their bedrooms and these are designed to coordinate with their new things.

Before:


After, with shrink plastic magnets holding a paper birthday greeting and a chalk written message:


Up close of the bottom one, which has a opalescent topcoat that's difficult for me to photograph:


I'm not super thrilled with the magnetic paint - I'd say twice the manufacturer's suggested number of coats would be better and forget about trying to stir it at home - get it shaken at the store right before you use it if you can.

Thanks for looking!

UPDATE!  Turns out that the hardest thing about this project was making a box to ship it in. A friend had a HUGE box from a recliner they bought, so I cut that down - it was the kind with two layers of corrugation and kind of a pain in the patootie.  Anyway, as you can see my studio assistants were there to "help" me out - the older one as more of a supervisor (see background).

Welcome!  Those are very attractive towels!  I've often thought that some kind of embroidery could make towels really special, but never thought of something that good looking.

Wow!  Those are a great compromise for a fashion doll that isn't vapid or physically ridiculous!  Making the outfits must've been great fun, too!

Those are really cute!  I really like your fabric choices.

That's hilarious!  I love how there are "wafers" on it.

Amazing!  I've been wondering if there was a way to make my new garage door on my old house look more like the original one and I think you have given me the answer!  I never saw the original, but the remaining hardware suggests that it's not unlike your painted version. Mind if I use yours as an inspiration?

haha!  Awesome!  If I wasn't trying to get up the nerve to spend some money on some decent knives and planning on donating my existing set to this really cool local charity that helps set up new households for victims of domestic violence, then I'd do something like that to mine.

Fantastic!  I have the opposite problem.  I can't find a glamourouos/girly collar for a very large, but glamorous dog.  Big girls need glamor, too!

Opened flat they might make fun frames for something like a favorite quote from your favorite book?  Make them magnetic.