If you plan to use watered down paint, I recommend preparing your solution and testing it on
a spare piece of wood first.
Time to hit the garage and look for
a spare piece of wood.
Luckily,
another spare piece of wood came to the rescue on this one, we stained it and used a couple «L» brackets to add the shelf into place.
Not exact matches
Look in the back and you'll find that there is a
piece of hardboard — a composite
wood material — above the
spare wheel well, barely concealed by the removable trunk carpet.
Then, to turn the rectangle into an arch, he used a nail at either end and one in the middle to hold and bend a thin
piece of wood (we used a
spare piece of trim) creating a perfect arch shape to trace.