Hello and welcome to Company Interiors.
My name's Nick Clark, and in today's video, we are going to be making two moss frames.
Now, these are going to be landscaped frames, one going next to each other.
So we're going to be looking at these on a wall within a workspace and office
environment. Going to look amazing.
So they are going to be they are going to be parallel.
They're going to be contrasting.
So we want to make these two designs, one next to the other, which I'm going to show you
in this video.
We're going to put this into two parts and we're going to go step by step.
Normally, these are made in our workshops.
But today in my home office set up here, I'm going to be showing you how easy it is to do
it yourself. So if you want any of the products that we are using today, you can have a
look at the link in the description below this video and click on those and have a look
and see what we're using.
So what are we going to be using?
We're going to be using flat moss.
Probably only one small box is going to be required.
But I'm going to show you in live format how that's going to work out.
And then we've got two colors of button moss.
So Button Moss, Paul Moss, all sorts of different names for it.
But essentially, these are Scandinavian products.
The light green or lime green is a highlight color, which you're going to see in these
frames. And the forest green more or less matches the color of the flat moss.
Just so you can see from your designs.
We've got two cameras here that I can try and flip through from one to the other if the
guys can get this done on the editorial.
So, again, if you also want a sample of the mosses that we're using here today, you can
also click on the link.
If you cover the shipping, I'll get these out to you as well so you can even test before
you buy. So let's have a look at how we're going to do this and what tools we're going to
use. So we're going to have the adhesive.
So the adhesive that we use for this, we get these questions asked all the time.
So I tend to use a grip fill.
It's pretty much the same product as a no nails.
It literally just applies with a glue gun.
And you're going to see that in full motion as I get into this and I'm going to skip
through some of these things so we can speed it along, make the video as interesting as
possible, always like it, always subscribe if you like this sort of thing and click the
notification. But of course, if you want to get more of these videos, we're also going to
have the always handy hot glue gun.
Hot glue guns are also very useful just to make sure that we apply, we're going to have a
long handled pair of scissors for just cutting the moss into the frame.
We've got two fairly large frames here today.
These will be measuring 30 inches by 20 inches.
That's about 80 centimetres by 50 centimeters there or thereabouts.
We also do frames and we sell frames in different sizes that you can buy these premade or
of course, you can make them yourself.
So if you want some of the stuff, just click the link in the description.
So let's have a look at how we're going to make these.
So right before I start actually applying the adhesive, what I'm going to do is I'm going
to offer up some of the product so I can see in my mind's eye how that is looking here.
So on the other camera, you can see where we've got the two frames here running.
Let's just offer that up now.
Often we are asked how much moss in a box fills the space.
Now, the flat moss one box.
We will check that out, but that would cover approximately 80 square centimeters.
So that would be about two feet square.
The bun moss would cover about 40 to 50 square centimeters, just over a foot and a
half square.
So I'm going to be using the two colors of the bun moss.
So the highlight, which is the lime green, this is a very vibrant color.
You just brush that off slightly.
So I know that I'm going to be putting that in places like that.
You can see on the you can see on the face of the cameras how that is working.
Now, these do come all in different sizes.
So some are very, very large, some are slightly smaller.
So we have quite a lot of variety to play with.
So the ball moss is already that's coming together quite nicely.
Don't worry about don't worry too much about the square spaces.
I'll show you how that we're going to fill those up.
So that's looking good and I will do exactly the same on the other side.
So I'm just going to take some of the flat moss and I'm going to offer that up into my
design just so I can begin to see how that's coming together.
Now, you can see that these come in much larger sections.
So this does go quite rapidly.
And you really don't have to start getting too concerned about how neat it is or anything
like that and where we've got the gaps and where we've got the spaces.
We're just going to be putting some flat muscle behind just to cover that up.
Now, it needs to be said that if you buy the frames from us, these are the call box
frames. So this this covers about an inch, about thirty five centimeters deep.
That just means that the bung moss, which is about 30 to 40 centimeters an inch to an
inch and a half deep, sits into the frame and doesn't sit too proud.
So let's just carry on with our flat moss again.
Huge, great big sections looks absolutely amazing.
That clearly is just going to run straight through there with no spacing, no gaps
whatsoever. Just a big sheet of flat moss.
These mosses, these are preserved.
They require no water required, no light.
They have no odor.
They don't smell at all.
And they are totally preserved, require require no maintenance whatsoever.
So really, before you actually put these things together, I would literally just brush
the debris off. There is no soil.
Some of the qualities of moss that you buy, the lesser quality mosses, should I say you
can tell how bad they are because they still have soil on them.
These have no soil at all.
That totally preserved and stabilized will probably last five years, 10 years, that sort
of thing. If they get direct sunlight, that would deteriorate the color.
So let's crack on and carry on with our designs.
So one other thing to say is that I'm going to run a bead of that, he said just around the
inside of this frame, just to make sure that it's all sealed.
I'll do that on both frames.
Just so I know that backing section is going to stay in the frame and there won't be any
movement. This is just belt embraces, really.
Just want to make sure that this is going to last.
So there we are, two months frames, we have used one box of flat moss and we have
used one box of light green, but almost one box of dark green bull moss.
So finally, before the big reveal, we're just going to go through the fine bits.
So what I do once I have laid all the moss into all the open spaces and then back filling
into behind where the ball mosses are.
So in one of these frames, you start to see here that I'm tucking the moss in behind the
ball, most sections, then taking a small pair of scissors.
These are my bonzai scissors and I am literally just sort of doing a little bit of
trimming. And finally, I would just tend to fluff it up with my hands a little bit.
The flat moss that is the Bund moss is very delicate.
Then I would just go over with a vacuum just with a brush head on there and then just
literally very finely hover over the top just to take the rest of the debris away.
Now, I hope you've enjoyed these videos and I hope you subscribe to our channel,
obviously, and always click the notification bell because we're coming up with new ideas
all the time. Now, this particular design that we've done with these two frames for a
client, I've done these myself normally that had done in the workshop.
But it's that straightforward.
You can play with the different size of frames.
You can do circles, rectangle squares, all sorts of things.
And the principle is the same for most wool.
So if you want to apply this design straight onto a wool, you can do so.
Let's have a look at the finished design.
Hold these up for the camera to moss frames.
Three boxes of moss, two frames, you can look at those on the Internet, and that's
probably a thousand pounds.
Twelve hundred dollars, not bad for a couple of hours work.