Decorative Wall Plaques

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Decorative Wall Plaques

Decorative wall plaques make great decorations for your home and garden. They can provide an elegant and intersting focal point as well as serve as a welcoming gesture to visitors. Choosing plaques for outdoor use involves taking the material they are made from into consideration.

Typically, wall plaques are made from bronze, wood, lucite, glass, ceramic, brass, aluminum, pewter, stainless steel, slate or alabastrite. For use outdoors you will want a durable, long-lasting, weather-resistant material such as ceramic, glass, bronze, wood, lucite, or alabastrite (resin).

Caring for Your Aluminum Plaques

Aluminum is a lightweight metal with a bright, silvery lustre. Strong, moveable and resistant to the elements, it makes an ideal material for outdoor enhancements.

Celebrate Life Stepping Stone/Plaque with Wrought Iron Easel Stand

The metal's affinity for oxygen makes it resistant to corrosion and attack by most chemicals. Most aluminum items are lacquered or otherwise coated, anodized, or painted.

Carruth 111 Garden Smile Plaque

Aluminum reacts with air to form its own thin oxide coating very quickly. This hard, dark gray coating protects the metal and is found on all bare aluminum surfaces. If rubbed on another material, this coating will leave a dark gray mark.

A commercial process, called "anodizing", thickens this coat and often colors it. Anodizing produces a very hard, darker finish that does not rub off.

Butterfly Garden Plaque

Your aluminum product will require little to no maintenance. To clean, simply wipe with a soft cloth (damp or dry) or featherbrush. Do not use any liquids containing detergents or cleaners.

Have You Considered Using Decorative Wall Plaques?

By Rama Krishna

Decorative Wall Plaques

Cast Stone 5.5" GARDEN GRANNY Woman Plaque SCULPTURE by GEORGE Carruth Studio # 176

No matter what the theme of the house décor, a decorative wall plaque always holds a special place. It is one of the most uniquely beautiful additions and can adorn the wall of your home or office.

Traditionally wall plaques were used outdoors or in the garden or patio. But now, they can be seen indoors as well. In fact, if you see old Egyptian paintings, wall plaques are a common sight indoors. You too can add an Egyptian touch to your home with a King Tut wall plaque or a Nefertiti maybe.

Most people are skeptical about the colors, but you can rest aside those woes as modern wall plaques use the most sophisticated technology to incorporate stunningly realistic colors in them. Egypt is not the only theme that can be used indoors.

University of Michigan Garden Stepping Stone or Plaque

You can choose from a wide array of themes that blends with that of your room décor.

Paintings

Jamie's Painting & Design Butterfly and Bee Garden Plaque

If you are an art lover and love paintings, then the selection becomes even wider. Popular paintings have been recreated as wall plaques using high cut throat technology. The painting is recreated on the best quality oak or rosewood.

A lot of paintings by the controversial painter Gustav Klimt have been recreated as wall plaques and are quite popular.

Other designs

Have you considered using stepping stones as wall plaques? Intrinsically carved stepping stones are commonly used as wall plaques and they bring a rustic touch and appeal to the wall. The daisy fairy is one of the commonest designs.

Materials

Wood is one of the most elegant looking materials for a wall plaque but it is not the only one. You can use almost anything like slate, rock,

POTTERY WALL PLAQUE WITH SAYING WISE WOMEN 4X6 INCH OVAL

steel and iron for wall plaques. The sky is the limit and you can choose from a wide range of finishes. If you like a textured finish, then so be it.

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