He assumed that meant they weren’t pretty enough on their own, so now he’s working on adding a little something to them.

I used my very best empty cat litter box to cut on.It was actually great because it caught any little pieces of styrofoam that came off.

The video suggested using a little saw or a utility knife for the cutting.I used a serrated kitchen knife just to see if it would work and it was great!.You can see this is the classic “real life”: shot.

I was playing around with this while Kennedy had a friend over and they were busy making a mess just outside of the camera shot.I liked that I could just do it right in my kitchen without needing to go outside or get a bunch of special tools out (besides that fancy cat litter box of course.).

If my cuts were ever a bit rough, I was able to smooth them out using a piece of scrap fabric layered over the rough part.

Then I just ironed gently on a fairly low setting.Chris picked up some 1×12 rough cut pine.

The roughness of it gives it extra farmhousey appeal!We cut it down into 5″ strips.

You can do any size you like, we just went with a size that would cover up our existing shutters.We made our shutters 3 boards wide and then put one board across the top and the bottom for a classic look.. Then we clamped them all together and secured it all with a few screws.. We cut a couple of little measury pieces to put up against the top and bottom cross pieces so we could make sure they were the same distance from the ends on both sides.