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Here's how to take a perfectly clean design, the chair, with its wonderful wood grain flow and really really screw it up with a tacky, cheap, and uninspired stencil. If the stencil came in a bold graphic or a graceful proven theme, e.g., asian scroll art or anything that complemented the wood of the chair then fine, but this stencil looks like something you'd pull out of Michael's Art Supplies. Sometimes it's better to leave something alone that already has redeeming qualities than reduce it to Wal-Mart, kitsch. Does anyone else agree?

I disagree, I like it.

As far as stencils go, its a good one, it has detail and instead of buying the stick on kind, this provides room for more creativity with color and placement.

Thing that makes me worried, is that someone out there will stencil this onto EVERYTHING....

scary!

I totally agree, click212.

Ditto. The fad for stencils/stickers/whatever is the pet rock of home design.

What makes it extra lame is that it is a tree.

Save the planet. Stick fake trees everywhere.

Yep.

I agree too click 212. The low quality of the draftsmanship on this stencil kills it for me. and the finished product oin the second picture just looks... ay ay ay.
I'm not that much of a fan of
" whimsical" stencils and paintings on furniture in general.

barf-o-riffic

I like the really, really big tree design. I used it as part of a mural in an office. Can't say I like it on that chair, though.

The stencil craze is turning out to be like the decal craze of the 1950s!

That goes for stickers as well (especially stickers!).

: )

I love stencils, but $38? Are they kidding?

Go online, find a tree you like. Print it out. Tape it to a manilla folder, take an x-acto and cut it out. (Or, go to the craft store and spend $1 on a plastic stencil sheet, tape your printout to it and cut).

There. I just saved you $37.

Second of all, that is a pretty ugly tree.

I like the idea. Very cute. I don't know about that on a chair but really nice.

Kitsch can mean hand-spoiled. So you don't have enough skill for Etsy--you, too, can be kr8TiVe. The chair doesn't need it, and the paint will just get f-ed up with all those studs on your jeans pockets.

You too can "customize" your space, just like everyone else is doing!!!

I don't have a problem with this idea, although it's not to my taste. The chair example looks like ass, though.

making a stencil is insanely easy especially with a computer, why would anyone pay 38 dollars to do such a cliche stencil when they could make some thing unique.

oh wait the same folks that all got the keep calm and carry on posters and the crap antlers.

I disagree with a few here. The tree is nice but I can't see it on furniture.