I could have just painted everything to try to make it blend in with the wall, and that would have been just fine, but I felt like trying something a little more fun..

The GE Iron Grip Adhesive offers up to 75% less clamp time than many other adhesives so it allows you to work much more quickly on projects like this.We left our project clamped for about 2 or 3 hours and then we had a nice, straight, flat panel!.

…or so I thought.Chris always likes to be extra sure so he added in a few shim in the back to hold the stainless steel extra straight..He was actually able to apply adhesive behind each of those shims and have them hold right onto the surface of the stainless steel, so that really helped give him peace of mind.

And here’s another picture of the clamping process.I always think these pictures make it look like our projects are so fancy and complicated, even though they never are!.

We created another side panel exactly the same way and then brought them together with the front panel so we had a full cover for our vent pipe.. You can see all those shims working their magic back there!

Don’t mind the water bottles and soccer gear in the background!But it’s actually so cute!.

I just picked up a package of these red color coding labels and stuck two together over a piece of white thread to create each “polka dot”.. I’m so glad I invested the 10 minutes one evening to actually try this idea out.It makes me so happy!.

I thought I was all done in the Staples store and I was ready to leave when I came across the yard sticks.Or rather, I guess in Canada technically they’d be metre sticks..