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| Shingles!! |
The first step is to stain the shingles. I have some leftover stain from finishing table legs that I will use to give them some color. Its a dark ebony color, Minwax wood finish. I spot checked the color by hand dipping 4 shingles for 2 different amounts of time. The first two were in for 15 minutes. The second two were in for a few hours. When they were dry overnight, I rubbed them down with a paper towel. This is how they turned out.
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| Stain test - the upper two were in stain for 15 minutes, the lower two were in for a few hours. |
They don't look all that different to me. My sister and boyfriend both thought the lighter ones looked nice so I decided I wouldn't bother steeping the shingles in stain for hours.
I took a glass bowl, dumped in two packages of shingles at a time and covered them (mostly) with the stain. Then I stirred them to make sure they were all getting a coat of stain. After 15 - 40 minutes (I want a bit of color variation so I wasn't too careful about steeping them for the same amount of time) I scooped out the saturated shingles and heaped them into a mound on my cardboard box. By the way, this was all done in a cardboard box to contain the mess. If I hadn't done this, my kitchen floor would look quite different now.
After all the shingles were stained and they had sat in a mound for about an hour, I laid them out in a single layer on more cardboard to dry. They look way more beautiful than I would ever have expected!! Seeing them side by side really gives an idea of what they will look like on the house.
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| These came out exactly like I was hoping they would!! |
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| After doing this I actually believe I have enough of them to cover the whole roof, I had worried. |
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