How To Paint Concrete UPDATED!! (Plus My Secret Cleaning Tip!) Happy Monday my friends! You may or may not know that about a year and 1/2 ago I posted a really through tutorial for painting concrete/cement. Ivie’s floor was my first experience and its held up really well, so well in fact, that I decided to rip the carpet out of Dylan’s room and paint her floor too. So why another tutorial? Carpet Removal First up is carpet removal. Once your carpet and pad are out its time to remove the tack strips. Remove Adhesive Now you have the fun job of getting off all of the carpet glue. In my first post I talked about dousing it with Lacquer Thinner and letting it sit and then dousing it again and scraping it off with a plastic scraper. Fill Holes If you previously had carpet, then you are going to have lots of cute little holes along your baseboard that will need to be filled before you can paint. Sand Baby Sand The last prep step is to sand your heart out. Now comes the fun part. Paint Painting a floor is hands down the easiest thing on the planet. But.
DIY Floating Corner Shelves Hey there! Join us on Instagram and Pinterest to keep up with our most recent projects and sneak peeks! Hey friends! So excited about how this latest build turned out! I seriously now want a set of corner shelves in every room. I am in the middle of revamping my daughter’s room, and just finished up one big corner. This is a variation of our original DIY floating shelves, and so simple to build! I used my miter saw to cut the frames for my shelves first. to create 1.5″ pocket holes into each of my small pieces. Each short piece will have two pocket holes like below… Next, I used my Ryobi 18V drill to connect the small pieces to the longer wall cleats with 2.5″ pocket hole screws. Each cleat will have 3 small boards connected like this. Once I had all my braces built, I attached them to the wall. These are the Spax screws I used to attach the braces to the wall. I marked lines on the wall where I wanted my shelves to sit. I attached the first two braces and it looked a bit like this…