Home Made Chalk Paint {ASCP Knock-Off} - Everyone has heard about Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, right? No? (Go here.) It is rumored to be the best furniture paint money can buy. However! It’s ~$35-40 +S&H for a quart. Yes, I said QUART. Well, we all know I’m a thrifty girl, right? I googled it, and made my own :) *Squeal* I got the original recipe from LizMarieBlog.com. The mixture is: 1Cup of Flat Latex Paint 1Tbs of White, Non-Sanded Grout Yup. I read a lot of different ways people are making chalk paint using non-sanded grout, plaster of paris, and calcium carbonate. Here is what you will need: Solo cup (It’s not red. Quart of your favorite color in FLAT (~$12) White, Non-Sanded Grout (~$5) 220grit Sanding Block Economy/Rough Bristle Brushes Furniture Wax (AS-SW is recommended) Mix the paint (1 cup) and non-sanded grout (1 tbs) then… stir your brains out (I even thought about using a blender then decided that would be a bad idea) until it’s smooth.
You do not need to sand or prime before application. (Say what?? Here she is after 1 coat :) Jenny Steffens Hobick. DIY Upholstered Platform Bed with Curved Fabric Headboard | * View Along the Way * UPDATE: We’re going to be recreating this bed with full tutorials, measurements and cost breakdowns, so if you want more step-by-step tutorials, follow along right here. This is a story about a project spiraling out of control. All I really wanted was a different look for our bed. We have a simple rectangular upholstered headboard that I picked up a few years ago from a big-box store somewhere, and I decided I’d just pick up some fabric, throw it over that headboard and call it a day. Then I accidentally read too many DIY blogs, and decided that if I’m doing this project, we might as well make the headboard a more exciting shape than that stodgy rectangle, and upholster our own.
At this point, I was already out of my league. But then, I saw this blog where a guy actually upholstered his entire bed himself. The inspiration? So I called my handy contractor (who was sitting next to me on the couch) and put in a request. After he cut it, we noticed this fun coincidence. Not good. The end! Monthly Round-Ups. Diy tufted headboard. As I said last week, this isn’t my best project. I had high hopes, but it just didn’t turn out exactly like that picture in my head. But it’s okay~it’s good for you to see that not all diy projects turn out “look at this, it’s amazing and soooo easy!” :) And do you know how you pore and labor over something and that is ALL that is on your mind and it seems that every detail matters, but then once you get it up in the room, you realize it’s not as bad as you thought?
And I’m NOT re-doing it, at least not this year. We had this piece of pegboard downstairs from the previous owners and I was going to use it in the garage or down in the office, but I thought.. " Next, I counted and marked off where we wanted the buttons/tufts to be and circled them. We are in the process of switching the boys’ rooms around, so I had 2 twin foam toppers we were going to get rid of that I saved exactly for this: and then poked some thread through my marked holes to show where to tuft on the other side: How To Make A Diamond Tufted Upholstered Headboard. DIY Button Tufted Headboard. Following in the footsteps of some great bloggers, I made by very own button tufted headboard! If you're looking for a tutorial to follow, I highly recommend the ones over at Little Green Notebook and Brick City Love. My headboard took elements from both of those tutorials, and I must say that they were very helpful. Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd just share some photos of my process and a few notes on things I learned as I went along.
I'm not sure where the idea for this headboard first happened. I must have seen something similar and got it stuck in my head. For my California King mattress, I ended up making the headboard two feet tall and six feet wide. While other people have simply hung their headboards on the wall, I didn't really trust myself to be able to hang it securely enough to stand up to regular use. For my 6ft long headboard, I only purchased 2.5 yards of dark gray upholstery weight chenille fabric. Home Decorating Fabric. Concrete Exchange - Cheng Concrete Countertops - Design Gallery, Training, DIY Products, Contractors. 10 Sites to Play with Colors and Create Color Palettes. If you are a web designer, or want to be one or you simply like to match different colors to see how they look; play around with these online color palette generators. A color palette in its simplest definition is a range of colors that’s used to make a graphic or a colored work visually consistent.
Take the example of our own website which has been designed with a color combination that’s uniform across the site. An example of a specific palette is the web safe color palette (a set of 216 colors) that makes them appear the same across browsers and OS. ColoRotate ColoRotate helps to mix and match colors in 3D. COLOURlovers Call this a community for color lovers. Kuler One of our readers suggested the Adobe tool in our How to Search for the Perfect Color Scheme post. Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer is an online color tool that makes it real easy to design the color scheme of your website or blog. Colr Toucan The color palette editor is one of Aviary’s online tools. Color Palette FX. PROJECT GALLERY. Design Seeds®: For All Who Love Color. The Making Of Red Hot Rhetta.
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