Altar’d: Custom Hand Painted & Refinished Furniture and Vintage Home Décor. Ikea Particleboard Dresser This has to be the most commonly asked question we get..
How do I paint laminate furniture? Aka: Target, Ikea, and sadly even most Pottery Barn furniture is pressed particle board or laminate over particleboard. Another question is how to paint the shiny plastic-like tops on some of the vintage french provencial dressers. The good news: you CAN paint laminte, particleboard, and shiny formica-looking furniture & it will look as good as painted wood furniture. Let’s pretend you bought this dresser from Ikea, and now you want it some other color.. The first step is to remove the hardware, and go to The Home Depot for these things: {I’m totally visual, so I’ll add a picture of each thing you’ll need} 1. Ryobi Sander 2. Kilz Spray Primer 3. Purdy Cub Paintbrush These white foam roller sets are great for large areas, and you can buy a cheaper brush for the edges & trim work. Foam Rollers 4.
Behr Paint & Primer in One 6. Minwax Paste Finishing Wax Don’t be scared! DIY: Furniture Makeovers. I'm obsessed with making-over old, worn out furniture.
It's amazing how almost any old piece can be totally transformed with new paint, hardware and a little imagination! Here are three examples from Ladies Home Journal...click here to read the entire article. Out-dated side table with stone top transformed into a bright and cheerful accent piece! *First they removed the hardware and stone top, sanded the table all over, and applied a coat of primer. IKEA Hack. My New Slipcover.
Bookshelves. Make-up Magnet Board. We all know with craft blogs that original ideas are often hard to come by, we find ideas we love and make them our own but we didn't come up with the idea ourselves.
Magnetic chalkboard built using sheet metal — beingBrook. Hanging Jewelry Organizer. DIY: Reupholstered Side Chair. I’ve always had the desire to attempt the process of reupholstering a chair.
Quite a few of my blogger friends did and the results were amazing, but I was still reluctant – Could I really do it? After reading this post, for some reason, “it” clicked and I was on-board. My mission of finding a chair had started. I needed something new anyway for my desk since I’ve been using this chair which has no seat padding and gets uncomfortable after a while. It took some time, but one day when on a thrifting adventure with my mom, I spotted it and bells started to ring. Let me start off by saying, I have no upholstery skills, so this is something that absolutely ANYONE can do. It all started off here… I began by removing the fabric from the back of the chair.
The seat upholstery I left since it was in fine condition and the new fabric would cover right over. Once the fabric was stripped down, it was time to give this chair a paint makeover. Anyway, here is me painting the chair… Eek! Beauty, right? Hyphen Interiors: Painted Upholstery - The Process Revealed (Tutorial) *NOTE – There are other examples of painted upholstery (mostly from readers) on the Chairs page at the top of the blog.
In addition, there are other upholstery painting methods on that page, if you are interested. Vintage Door Knob Hooks. Mason Jar Outdoor Candle Lantern. Painting laminate furniture — beingBrook. Magnetic Chalkboards: the Do's & Don'ts. This is the story of a Plan B Project.
You know those types, right? You get a great idea, then somewhere in the process you realize that your plan's just not coming together, so you take a deep breath, pull out Plan B and try again. And occasionally, you meet a really tough challenge and you may even have to invent a Plan C. Every now and then these things happen when you're a Domestic Artist, right? And then we have blogs so we can tell our fellow Domestic Artists how to avoid the headaches of Plan A and go straight to Plan B. Such was the case for Lily's Magnetic Chalkboard. Plan A was to use my usual particle board that I always use for chalkboards and spray it with Krylon's Magnetic Spray Paint, then top it with Krylon's Chalkboard Spray Paint. Here's where I tell you what Krylon fails to mention on their can: the chalkboard paint cancels out the magnetization of the magnetic paint, so you cannot use these 2 together. So, that is the road that led me to Plan B on this chalkboard.
20 Inventive Ways to Upcycle Shipping Pallets by Ian Rebello. Repurposing, diy By Inthralld on Aug 19, 2012 Shipping pallets have become a bit more popular with the quest for sustainable elements and materials in one’s home.
With the popularity of Green Design and creative prototypes floating around out there, there are some great d.i.y. opportunities for things that can be found locally– like pallets. We’ve rounded up 20 great inventive uses of the bland old wooden pallet and put them together for you to gain some inspiration from. They range anywhere from merely stacking the unused pallets to make a base for a bed, sofa or coffee table to the pallet built barn or home. Pallet Coat Rack — beingBrook. Home Terrarium.