How To Apply Vinyl Lettering

From all of your amazing suggestions, we decided to go with a great Etsy company {here} to get our laundry room door decal. The guy was so amazing to work with, even customizing the decal for us, because that would be far too easy for us to actually like something normal, right?! The decal with shipping came to a whopping $13, which we thought was totally fair, esp. with it being customized.

Here is the process of getting it on the door:

• Measure and mark the center point of your door.

• Make sure that the decal is level before taping to the door. We used our trusty laser level that we used when painting the office stripes {here}:

• Start peeling the back of the decal up first. Make sure to be careful and not remove the front from the tape on the door:

• Once the back is completely off {remember, slow and steady wins the race} lay the decal down, and start using the scraper starting in one corner and going to the other, to take out any and all bubbles:

• Once all bubbles are smoothed out, carefully and slowly remove the front of the decal:

• At this point, you should be finished. Unless you have an insane perfectionist of a hubby like mine. If you do, then you will proceed to make sure it is level {which once its already on, theres not much you can do- so I saw no need it double checking...but then again, i'm not a perfectionist!}. Ours was a little frustrating because the decal was level, however the window is not. When this is the case you think the decal looks off, but unfortunately theres nothing you can do. Doesn't bother me, just the precious hubbs! Gotta love him tons and tons:)

Here is the end result. We love how it turned out. My dad of course thought he was hilarious by saying "Oh good honey, now you won't get lost in your own house and not know where the laundry room is". Touche dad, touche.

In case y'all notice that the front of the glass doesn't look 'frosted' anymore, thats because its not. When first going to clean the glass before applying the decal, we realized that any sort of liquid {glass cleaner, water} took off the frosting. So we decided to remove the frosting on this side of the glass and just apply another coat on the back. This way I can keep the front of the door squeaky clean, but not loose that frosting look. Hope you loves like it!

<3,

Adri

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