⭐️Absolute TOP 10 Best TRASH TO TREASURE DIY Decor Ideas On a Budget!

Welcome to Designed for Nines... I'm NataLee Callahan and if this is your first time meeting me, welcome to my channel for today's episode. I've rounded up some of my favorite upcycled DIY

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ations, we're talking

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that became

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s, secondhand finds that I've upgraded, or things I had around my house that I gave new life to. I hope you enjoy watching this as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you, so let's start DIYing and designing until the end. I'm going to show you how I grabbed some cans of tuna, a couple cookie sheets, and dog chains from the Dollar Tree and built this designer chandelier for a fraction of the cost of my project today.

I'm going to imitate a designer item. This time it's from Ballard Designs. I found a beautiful chandelier that cost five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and I really loved it, but I wanted to see if I can make it for much less. I think I'll use some really cool items. You might even question my sanity a little when I come out with some of the elements, but that's what you have to do: be creative, you have to think outside the box, but I promise you they're going to work. and it will be very fun. I'll show you three cool things I'm using.

The first is that I will use some cookie sheets from the Dollar Tree. I think they'll really work for part of our project and then I'm using three of these, a six foot dog tether, like a dog chain from the Dollar Tree again and finally, and this is a little strange, I'm using eight tuna cans as if they were empty tuna. cans so we've had a lot of tuna sandwiches recently okay so we'll start by building the frame of the chandelier first and I picked up three of these 36 inch long pieces of poplar an inch and a half by an inch and a half. lumber from Home Depot we're going to keep two of them at the original length and then we're going to take the third one and cut it directly in half.

Let's go ahead and mark it up and make that cut now. So a couple. Quick Safety Tips I usually have clear protective glasses for my saw. I couldn't find them, so we'll make do with my sunglasses, but that's just to keep sawdust out of my eyes between uses. I always unplug it because I have little people around and I just don't want them to accidentally, you know, turn it on... like that... and get hurt even if I'm just going to be away from it for just a second. I will be building the frame for the chandelier.

I didn't want anything to be exposed, like nails or anything on the end, so what we're going to do is insert dowels into the joint to keep everything nice and together. We're going to take one of the long ones and we were going to take a nail and put it in the center, tap it into place, make sure it's nice and level and then take some wire cutters that you cut into the head. the nail so it's a little bit sharp and then we're going to line it up on this table and then we take our hammer and we tap it into place and what that's going to do is make a mark where the initial hole should be and then We can just take this now and take it out. so you have a nice, straight starting point for each joint drill and then we do the same thing with this, so roughly this will work, we'll probably have to do this. sand a little bit around the joints, but that's okay before you glue this up and finish it, then you're just going to add a little bit of wood glue in the holes and if I can get some through, that's okay because it will help strengthen that joint for a much tighter joint. tight I recommend using a clamp so I let my frame dry overnight so I'm going to take the clamp off from time to time what we're going to do is sand the frame because we want to. a nice smooth surface with a sander makes it much faster, so I decided to move the party indoors because I didn't know how humidity and heat would work on stains.

I'm doing it in our guest bathroom because this is an area that I'm not getting used to right now and then I can also turn on the fans to circulate and all that I'm going to put on some gloves to protect my fancy manicure that I don't have yet no, just I'm doing this because it's going to get dirty and I don't want to get my hands dirty and then I have a discarded sock that its partner probably ate. My dryer, like so many socks, is just going to get my hand wet. the stain and I'm just using a gel stain because I thought it would work a little better and give us a nice thick coat and it goes on really dark, which is pretty good because that's what I wanted for the next step.

In the process the iron straps that were on the wooden frame are being created and you will need protective gloves for this step because you will be exposed to some sharp edges and it is very important to protect your hands so you don't get hurt. The cuts are not very expensive at all and are definitely worth it, so you will take your scissors and cut the edge of the cookie sheet leaving only the bottom, then you will take that part and cut two and a half. inch strips, then you're ready to spray paint, which we're just going to spray paint all the tuna cans, anything that's metal, we're going to use the leftover spray paint from my project from last week and spray everything with a nice iron that It looks black. so I let everything dry for several hours and hope it's dry enough to do my next step.

Let's start with the iron... the iron (laughs)... the simulated iron strap that was made out of biscuit. sheets and we have sprayed it on that exterior flashing that is black. I'm going to start on the inside so the rough side is right under the tuna can... (laughs) tuna can... Oh my God! So we're just going to fold it and lay it down and it should bend really nicely and then we'll put a little bit of pressure on it and lift it up and fold it all the way over and then what am I going to do?

I'm going to make a little mark here and then I'm going to grab my tin snips that I left on the side, so I'm going to grab them and I'm going to take this off to trim it to fit. To keep everything in place, I'm going to take my tuna can and I made a little hole in it... I put this on top, so I'm going to drill the pilot so it's ready and then I'm going to change my tip to a traditional tip. I'm just using drywall screws. I had them on hand. You could probably use whatever you want and then we're going to screw this into place.

Look at it, so it's there. It's good and it will help you. iron strap to stay in place good and we'll do it all the time so you can see here I have a little problem and I knew this was going to happen and what it is is right where this seam is meeting and I have some, you know, E6000 there, but it doesn't want to stay down because it wants to bend, so my solution for this and it's also something aesthetic, plus on the original there are some nails. heads and I'm just going to do it.

I took these thumbtacks and sprayed them the same color, so I press them down and that not only keeps them in place but also adds sort of an aesthetic to wherever I'm scratching. I'm planning to redo this iron work and touch it up next. I drill pilot holes in the round wood in a square shape for the hooks that will hold the chain holders, then place another thumbtack in the center for an extra

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ative touch. . So on the edges I'm up to 2 1/2" by 3/4, we're going to pre-drill screws for the hooks where we're going to attach our wires, so I'm getting ready to hang my lamp and I asked my husband to come out earlier and help me mark where we were going to need to place it because it was kind of a two person job because we had to center ourselves between the two lamps... as you can see and apparently he didn't want me to miss the place he marked, so I need to determine if there is a stud up there so I'm going to use a stud finder which would be ideal because it would obviously be the safest.

If not I have a pry that I can put into the drywall that would hold up to 50 pounds of weight which would which should be more than enough because my light fixture is nowhere near that so let's see if there's a stud my house let's see if there's a stud up there there's no stud so we'll use the crowbar so I wanted to show you Before hanging it I connected the wires to the hooks here and here and so on in all the corners. then I plugged it in right there too, so my project is done... it's up...

I'm really excited though as it turns out I feel like it's a really good dupe and a really good imitation of the Ballard design of my version. For about $60, there is a way to do it for about half the cost and that would include swapping out the candles for some from the Dollar Tree. This is the Dollar Tree version and this is my version now. The reason I chose these candles is because the one at Dollar Tree you would have to light manually every time you use it, you have to get up and turn it off.

My version you can actually turn it on with a remote and turn it off with a remote, so it's really cool that there's a little more robustness. I'm so glad I spent the extra money, but if you're looking for a slightly cheaper solution, upgrade to the Dollar Tree candles. I'm going to turn this old tire that would be on its way to the landfill into a working piece of furniture and we're actually going to turn this into an ottoman and I'm so excited to do it because do you know how many times we have a tire in our garage kicking around taking up space?

If you don't have a tire in your garage yet, you can just ask, someone will be happy to give you a free tire, so let's get started, let's get it right, so for the first part we need to put on a top and a bottom. on this tire so it has some stability and can hold something in the middle without sinking, so I bought this piece of wood at Home Depot for $4 and we should be able to take the top and bottom off. If you had a bigger tire, you might need a little bit bigger piece of wood, but you can use any piece of wood that you can get that's in leaf shape, and what we're going to have to do is make a circle. and So the easiest way to do it is to find the center, so basically we're going to use this entire piece of wood.

We need to be very careful when measuring because we really don't have much to spare. We need to find the center here and in theory we should be able to make a circle so I have a jigsaw here and we're going to cut out the circle that we just drew and honestly the

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practice would be a lot more. sturdier table than mine, but I've got it attached and we're going to be a little careful here and we're just going to cut the circle. It's a little humid outside, so I brought the party inside. We do this. in and out, that's how we roll here anyway, so we cut the top and bottom of the wood and now we have to adhere it.

I had some liquid nails left over, so what we're going to do is We're just going to squeeze out a little bit of these liquid nails, this will help everything stay in place. Let's put this right on top. It won't be perfect to cut with a jigsaw, so there will just be some waviness left and I thought. It was good, I'm going to screw it in just to have more measurement. Now I turned it over and we're going to do the same thing on the bottom so we have a place to screw in some feet. We'll wrap the rope around the entire tire and top and then add some feet to make an ottoman.

I got this rope, it's about 50 feet of rope, it's half an inch thick and I really liked it and it was really the

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. The price I was able to find and it also had the look I liked and I bought it at Michaels. It was normally $16.99 (US) and I used a 50% off coupon. You always have to use a 50% or 40% off coupon at Michaels. always has one so I bought this rope for half price which makes it $8.50 for 50 feet so what we're going to do is start right in the center and x marks the spot where we still have that from when we made our circle before.

I'm going to use a mixture of liquid nails and a little hot glue. Hot glue has a more immediate contact and liquid nails will be much more durable because I've actually seen some of these rope ottomans before and one of the problem with them is that the rope unravels and we're going to avoid that because I have a trick to show you what we're going to do is we can see it's looped like this and we're going to create a loop that you What we need to do is create a loop like this and then we're going to line it up like this and then we're going to loop it in the opposite direction. and we'll make about three or four loops and make sure they're a good fit and then when you get those three or four loops, what you're going to do is start and make like a tight coil and we've got where x marks the place, like this which I'm going to start by I'm using a little bit of hot glue and I'm going to be very generous there and then I'm also going to put a little bit of construction adhesive on because it's going to hold up better over time, make sure it's nice and centered and then we're all in.What you need to do is keep doing this in every way, you just need to make sure it fits nice and tight. together we don't want gaps, this will take a little time, so we are in this for the long haul, we have made good progress, It looks great and now I'm in a place where I need to make the transition from wood to tire, so the idea is to try to make this transition as smooth and unnoticeable as possible.

Well, what we're going to use for the feet of our ottoman, are actually just some finials that I bought at Home Depot for $3.98 each and I like them because they were a little bit thicker, they had a flat bottom and I thought that they would be the perfect height and everything worked and the price was right, so what are we going to do? What I do is we're going to dye them right now, so I'm just using the same Kona gel stain that I used for my outdoor tuna can chandelier and then I used that on my bench.

I've barely made a dent in it so I'm going to use it on this too and it's like a nice dark chocolate that will really contrast nicely with the rope oh yeah that looks so good. I love it. Patience will be a virtue in this project. It's time to put our feet together and I marked where I wanted them. I spaced them evenly and now we're going to pre-drill the feet and then we're just going to twist them into place and again. These are just fence finials, you could use real furniture feet but I found them quite expensive and they were smooth and perfect for what we were doing.

A couple of months ago I finally discovered a relatively decent thrift store in my area and bought this. brown poop... (gasp in the background) I just said that, but that's its color, it's the ugliest shade of a brown painted console table for like 20 bucks, so it was a really good deal, it was very sturdy , it was made out of real wood so I liked it and I liked the overall shape and idea, it's got some nice bones in here so I really think we can make this something

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ly amazing by adding some doors, maybe adding some furniture legs and some really cool hardware and it won't look anything like this when we're done so the first thing we're going to do is build a door and we're going to make it in a shaker style shape and this is just a piece of wood left over from my shelf built here at my craft room so I already had this on hand so let's take some of this poplar and it's two and a half inches wide by 36 inches and I've used it before to kind of dress up a door and we're going to create a kind of shaking door.

I always like to wear protective glasses when working with anything that might spit out sawdust. I also wear an apron because, well, why get any more dirty? you need it anyway. I'm going to use a circular saw that is cordless and this will work perfect for what we're doing, so the first thing we're going to do is mark out our measurements, which are 19 and 3/4 inches. and then we can use just one of our decorative pieces to connect the dots and make sure everything matches up so we have it marked and then all we have to do is there's this red release button here and if we press it down and pull the trigger at the same time and then it will start... like this... but first we have to align it with the blade and then we are going to hold it and it was that easy, okay, so we have Our door was reduced to the dimensions that we want, so that's the right size and now we're going to add some embellishments.

I bought this at Home Depot for a couple dollars and all we're going to do is just place it on top. from here make sure it's flush with the edge here on both sides and then we'll take our pencil, this little trick that I like to do and we'll just trace and then we'll know how long it is and then we'll keep this excess. because it will be the rail, so these are the styles and this will be the rail up and the other one down, so we're only going to need two of these per door, now it's time to use them. my miter saw and this will make the job very easy now get back to working with it safety glasses this is really easy to do all we have to do is line up the edge of our blade with our line and then pull the release again. the yellow one and then grab the trigger and push down and we've got this good so now we need to do the style or I mean the rail so we're going to make sure this is all lined up we're going to mark it so you can Look this fits very good there, so we can use it as a template for the next one.

Okay, you can see that we have a door that forms nicely, so now all we're going to do is grab some gorilla wood glue. and I'm going to glue it to this piece and then I'm going to take my nail gun that I'm going to show you how to use here and I'm just going to put a couple of finishing nails on it so it's very secure, so now I'm I'm going to show you how to use this nail gun. They make electric nail guns. Mine runs on an air compressor and the first thing we need to do is put in some small finishing nails.

These are small, they're pretty short, but they'll do it. they work perfectly for what we're doing so we just do it by putting them in here and this is like a finished nailer and then we're going to close it slowly and now we have to hook it to our hose and then we're going to pull this back and stick it and release it and then it will be comfortably seated so now we are ready to turn it on and the thing to remember about the tank pressure is that if it gets too high then you need to reduce the pressure.

It's not going in enough, the pressure needs to be increased, but I usually keep the dials right in the middle, so let's turn it on now and increase the pressure and when it stops making noise, then we'll know it's ready to use the air compressor. , so now it's time to assemble this door, so we're just going to turn it over, maybe remove this sticker, but then we're going to take our gorilla wood glue and press it down a little bit. This ends up and you might want to shake it a little bit to get the wood glue to spread a little bit and then we're going to make sure everything lines up, we're going to put in a couple of finishing nails, push it in. down if that acts as a release and then we pull the trigger and then I'll do it on this other side before I do a second one, there we go and then we'll just move forward and there we have a door.

Isn't it amazing? We have built this, we just need to build the second one and then meet me inside to get our doors ready and they are very cute but now I want to add some dimension by adding a top...on top...this I bought at Lowe's and I already cut it to size - our table is 48 inches and this one is 48 inches so it won't really add any dimension on the side but it's a little bit deeper than this will add some dimension this way so I like it let's glue it and nail it all the way to the top, but we need a little longer nail, so I'll show you how we're going to change it.

To get it out, we're just going to push it down, open it up, and then we're going to take our smallest finish now, which was perfect for what we were doing, and we're going to quickly swap it out for one that's a little bit longer, so we're just going to put it in. that there, close it and that's it, so we're going to put glue on it even though our nails are shorter than these two thicknesses, just to be safe, I'm going to line it up here with the sides. and that way you know that if something crazy happens, it's going to go to the right place, so now I'm just going to take some dry caulk and plug all the nail holes in our doors and on the top and make whatever patches you can If necessary then we are going to sand it and then we are going to paint everything except the base and you will see why in just a second I am using a leftover paint for my stripes on my walls here in the craft room, the color of the paint It's called Hale Navy just take your time painting do a good job and make sure there are no drips so I turned our console over and the reason is because I want to add decorative feet that I want to get rid of.

This ugly angled butt is like I don't know, I just didn't like the look of it so we're going to take it out and some of you might be wondering why I didn't do this at first and why. This is because I knew I was going to paint it in place and I wanted it to get off the floor so I could paint easier and not have to worry about it, so I have a hammer and I'll just try it, I don't know... ( laughter) I don't know how we're going to do this, but let's try! It's there pretty good!

Yeah! Look at that...maybe I can turn it into a blanket ladder or something I don't know! Now I'm going to take out the rest of the rusty nails, we don't want them there and we're going to put them... what are they called? straight top plate hardware and that's what our feet will screw into and we'll just do it on all four corners and then we'll have beautiful feet instead of an ugly triangular base. Now we're getting to the good stuff. Things we can hang on our doors now. Funny story. I don't know how many dozens of antique brass hinges I've removed from cabinets over the years.

Now when I need some of them, I can't find them anywhere, so what did I have to do. It's spray painting some silver and antique and aging them to look like all those brass hinges I've removed. I wonder where those are now, so we have our "fake" antique brass hinges... hilarious! and the reason I wanted to do that is because I have a really cool hardware knob, it's like a ring and it was left over from a desk, it didn't end up on it and I thought it would look really nice with this. blue than gold, so all we're going to do is take our drill and we're going to place our hinges and I'm going to make sure to keep the same distance on both of them, so then we're going to take a marker and we're going to mark where our hinges should go to make sure it's lined up the way we want and then we're going to mark so what I'm going to do is We're actually going to drill it out and then take it out again just to start and then we can do it with our hanging cabinet then we just drill a hole to our pretty knob.

I'm very happy with how this extreme transformation is done on this. As it turned out, this piece of furniture was something a lot of people might have overlooked, but I'm so glad I didn't. It will be a beautiful piece to store supplies in my craft room for the next few years, couple of months. I was at Home Depot recently and saw a bunch of these sitting there and thought, what is that? because I thought it was cool because it had like a slot in the center and they were like, oh, we. I only used it for packing, we throw them away when they're ready and I'm wondering if I can have them so I grabbed some.

Now it has something written on it and not everyone did it, but I think you're a good sanding and a little bit of stain, this would look great for something. I'm going to give it a good sanding and then we're going to stain it with my bottomless pit stain. I've had this for a year and it's probably still half full and I really like the color and it's just a gel stain that will never go away. I love this. So I have a piece of wood. Now I have a bunch of cutouts from my built-in bookshelf showing behind me.

Here, many times people just drop off their junk parts they don't need at Home Depot. Home Depot will sell them at a discount and make some extra money on them, but you'll pay for the entire sheet, so you could Well, keep them, look at this, it fits perfectly inside this. I need to trim it down so if you've been watching my channel for a while you know I'm a big advocate for women using power tools and of course. Now I have my safety glasses on. I wanted to show you how easy it will be to make this simple cut on our sliding compound miter saw...sorry I said that wrong...the compound sliding miter saw and the way to do that right now is stationary so if I go up and under I'm just going to cut, I don't think I'll cut all the way through, we'll end up with a little bit uncut, that would be nice because we could flip it over and cut the other side, but if we want it to be nice and smooth and seamless, I have this as an option , so there's this dial here, let's loosen it up and now it's going to slide. back and forth so that when I make the cut I can slide it forward from here and then slide it back as we cut and then it will be a seamless cut so I just wanted to show you how easy it would be now.

We're going to do it, so we're going to place this here, we're going to take our blade to place it and line it up to where the line hits the edge of the blade. I'm going to hold this down so it doesn't move on us and that's going to make it a little bit easier and then we're going to take out our sliding compound and we're going to pull the trigger and the handle which was really easy to do so I know I can do this too and now let's go. Let's try it to see if it fits on our little block here and I think it will be perfect.

I take my electric sander and give my base piece a good sanding. I was even able to do it. I remove the writing, then I take my gel stain and tint it all and give it a couple of hours to dry. I thought we could put in a really cute saying and the fun thing about this is that it can be completely reversible, sothat we can put a saying anywhere if we want, so today I'm just going to say one saying and then maybe in the future I'll come up with another saying that I want to make, so I went ahead and designed something in the Cricut design studio that says that there is no place like home.

I use the Times New Roman font for one and then the scripty font is called Rossi and then I decided to add a little heart to make it a little cute once we have our vinyl. I cut it down, weed it, which is my favorite part, then we apply our decal to my piece of wood that I painted with leftover paint from my shelf, then I do a quick distressing on the edges of everything to give it a rustic touch. I simply place the piece of wood on our base and voila, we can really put it anywhere in our house.

It's such a flexible piece of decor that it only costs ninety cents, which is basically half of the sheet vinyl we use. This is my favorite. Of all the projects, my next

treasure

is. I have this box of cutlery. I bought it out of goodwill. It was originally $5.99 and was 50% off, so it was three dollars. It's not very pretty, it's quite boring and I think many. people would just throw this away because it has staples poking out, it has this worn out purple felt but it's functional and it's made of wood so I thought we could do something with this so it's been in my house.

For a while now I've been waiting for the right opportunity to do something with it, let's paint it, put some stripes on it. I have this leftover fabric from a pillow I made for my master bedroom and I thought it was actually lined inside. alright, it's going to be mostly gray and white and then a little bit of black, so I just spray it with gray primer that I had on hand and I don't care if it stains the interior fabric or not. Since it's really ugly and they're going to cover it up anyway, so I take it inside where I find the center and I didn't have painter's tape, so I used washi tape and I had to fold it to make the width of the stripe I wanted.

I wanted to now I would recommend just using regular painter's tape if you have it because I ended up having to do a little bit of touch up paint or it leaked in the middle, but I go ahead and do stripes using the tape as a guide and then take some. white paint I had on hand and I painted the entire top of the box but we left the bottom half solid, once it's dry we can remove the tape and wear it down, then I take the vinyl decal which in French loosely means all the things beautiful ones I have.

Use it in a box to prevent bleeding. I decided to go ahead and use Mod Podge. I wouldn't recommend this because when I removed my decal it also ripped off some of my painted lettering which was kind of a bummer if I had left it on. alone, I think it would have come off much better, by the way, if you were cutting this on your Cricut I would suggest cutting it on the washi tape setting as the lettering is pretty good so to fix my modpodge mistake I just grabbed a marker and I stuffed it by hand, which ended up being good because I distressed my design anyway to give it an aged feel, so in the end it wasn't noticeable, so I lined the inside of the box with some leftover fabric using spray.

I glue and fold the edges down and use hot glue on the outside bottom. I glue it to the edge and then use a rotary cutter to cut it out. If you are making this project, you want to make sure your fabric is relatively thin. so that your box still closes. I love how it turned out. I can keep my jewelry and any meaningful keepsakes I like, including the original cost of the Box supplies and paint and everything. I would say this is less than five dollars, but I'll call it that and I think it was worth every penny, so for my next

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I have a few empty bottles.

Now my family really likes Indian food and this is like a simmer sauce that we use for dinner. I like the shape of them because they are a little square but they are round on the top and I thought sometimes that would be an interesting decoration so I've stuck with these. My original plan for these bottles was to spray paint them black. and then white chalk paint and then sanded them a little but I didn't end up having enough white chalk paint so after spray painting them black I ended up using bright white spray paint that I bought at Walmart for 97 cents and already had on hand , making the black spray paint really unnecessary for what I ended up doing in the end, once the spray paint was dry I brought them in and took some black chalk paint and decided to give it a sort of enamel look that I achieved.

This takes a sponge brush and places black randomly around the rim and bottom of the jar. Perfection isn't what we're going for here, we want it to look like it's chipped and iron-clad, then we make a pair. of chippy dots in random locations on the bottle trying to be a little bit different from each of the other four bottles and finally we'll go to the Cricut design studio and just write the word home, it'll be one letter per bottle and then of course we'll do it we weeded and put transfer tape on it and cut out each individual letter and applied a letter to each bottle for style.

I use some boxwood I already had on hand from Walmart in the jars, but you can style it anyway. You like not including the box with these jars, it includes paint and ends up around a dollar 50 for everything, not too bad. Now, if you're like me, you might be wondering if a cricket is really worth it and the answer for me is yes. I wish I had one years and years ago because I'm having so much fun with my Cricut machine out front. It is an investment, but in the long run you will save money if you like to decorate and if you can't. afford one now start saving for one because they are wonderful.

I love them. I really love it, so my next farmhouse trash will be a treasure. I'm going to use this sign to make a nice sign now that I bought it for a dollar. I know a lot of people probably have these types of signs on hand, they sell them a lot at Dollar Tree. I was going to use it as part of my DIY wreath stand that I made a couple of weeks ago in an episode and I decided I didn't want to waste time with it. I found something a little heavier. All we're going to do is turn this over and paint the outside with black chalk paint and then I'm going to paint the inside with white paint and Cricket is doing something really cool right now.

They've released a bunch of free designs for you to work with so just go into the Cricut design studio, click on the image section and filter for free stuff and I found this really cute sign that says "be kind" and I thought it would look really cute in my kitchen because I have a little honey jar that's like a beehive and it has little bees in it and I thought that would be a really cute vignette and it's really easy, all we have to do is click on the image, adjust the size and press "make it" and our project will be ready.

They have made it very easy for you, there are so many images for you to choose from. Now go check out their free stuff in the Cricut Design Studio. I know you won't be disappointed after we apply the vinyl decal to the inside of our frame. I decide to dress up the outside of the frame a little with a bit of black. and white polka dot scrapbook paper I already had on hand. I ended up folding it over the edge to see how wide I needed it to be and then used my paper cutter to cut it out, then I just took the scrapbook paper and altered it for the outside of the frame and then sanded it to give it some distressing to everything.

I think this is very nice, especially if we barely make more than a dollar. I have this kind of cute farmhouse looking soap pump that sits in my kitchen. it's cute but I thought we could make it a little cuter and personalize it a little bit by adding a label so in the free section of Cricut they have a ton of free label designs so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to put something more personalized in our soap dispenser and use it as a backdrop for a fun little saying: wash your hands, you disgusting animal.

Now I saw the humor in that, I hope you do too, so we're just going to put that on our label and This is a really simple project and it's really cute and a little bit of humor and to remind my kids especially to wash up hands because they are disgusting little animals, all I needed was a tag that only cost fifty cents, okay? is the piece we're going to work on and this is a three-drawer mom dresser from Ikea and like I said, we bought this house fully furnished so this was here, it just won't work with the decor in the direction I want. take the decor, let's do something with it, but what I like about it is the functionality, the size and all that is good, it's too modern, it's not something I would have chosen for myself if you had a piece of furniture that you had for a long time and you don't really like the way they look.

I hope this episode inspires you to change it up for something you do like, so let's take this from hip to hip. farmhouse style, if you will, we'll do it by adding some decorations and then we'll put some mirrors on it. There's something about mirrors that really makes a piece more glamorous, so what we're going to do is we're going to add some embellishments, we're going to add some paint, we're going to add some mirrors and some crystal knobs and it's not going to look anything like that when we're done and that to me is a good thing, so we'll start by adding some embellishments. and what I have here is a one and a half inch by 36 and a half inch thick piece of craft wood that I bought at Home Depot.

It was around 250 for this here and you can do it two ways. measure it, which is a good way to do it, but a lot of times what I like to do is just hold it and take a pin and mark the back, so now I'm going to take them outside to show you how to use them. a miter saw, okay, what do you think of glasses? Aren't they attractive? Wellness, sure, is attractive, you just don't want anything getting in your eyes and causing any damage. It's just not worth it, let's take our piece. We've marked it and we're going to place it here on our miter saw.

This is an electric Chicago. It was very affordable. It's like a perfect starter saw and it also has a couple of really awesome features, like a laser, so you can trace your mark. We work with a laser and we know it's in the right place, so it also has this handy clamp where you can just hold your piece of wood so it's in place and then in order to remove it, we release it by pulling inward. that button and then here you pull it in and then you pull it back and that starts it so let's do our cut like you're so sexy my husband thinks I'm hot with these glasses on so okay so for this In the next part, I'm going to use my favorite power tool and that's my finishing nailer that's hooked up to an air compressor, so to turn them off or put them on first, just pull out this little thing that's there and insert it and then release it.

I like this style to be right in the middle, so it's 150 here and 80 here and you'll know if you need more or less pressure by how far the nail goes in, and if it doesn't go. all the way into the wood you know you need to turn this dial right here and increase or decrease the pressure and then all you have to do is turn it on so I have this lying on its back it's just going to make it easier for us to work with so what we're going to do is we're going to turn it over and pick a side and I'm just going to put a little bit of gorilla wood glue on the back and this is just to add a little bit of security and then I we're going to flip it up here over the top or we're going to line it up and shake it a little bit to work out some of that glue and then we're going to take our favorite tool, the finishing nailer, and we're just going to put some nails in just in case, so I do that on one side, then the other, and then one in the middle, and that should be fine. and then we'll do this on everything and then if you have any wood glue, just wipe off the excess with a rag or your finger, like I have like a billion of these and they always come off. so we have our extra piece that we're going to use for the side slats and what we're going to do is we're just going to measure in the middle so you can see it's a little bit less than five inches just barely and so we're going to make that mark and then we're going to cut.

I don't want to forget the ends, they're a little boring too, so I'm going to add the same border except for a little bit more white, this one is like a 1 and a half and this one is like a 2 and a half, so it's a little bit wider, it's same process on the sides as the front, okay, so next we need to fill the nail holes, all the cracks and crevices and get it all nice and tight, so we just have some Bakkal and we'll clean it up there and then we will let it dry well so that everything is covered and looks good.

We have to let this dry and we work hard to make it a chocolate. break time I really like York mint burgers what's your little reward of choice so break up the chocolate so our putty dries and I'mready to sand this now. I'm going to speed up the process with my electric sander, but I'm going to finish it. I go out and do the finishing touches with a sanding sponge and the reason I'm going to use the sander is again to speed it up but also to give this surface a touch up that's actually going to be the only part of the original piece. that's actually going to put paint on it that's going to help the paint adhere to the piece a little bit better, so we're going to say okay, so I've got all the important things, so now I'm going to jump in here. and I do some final touch ups with my sanding sponge but without that power sander this would have been a much longer process so I highly recommend a power sander so one coat of primer and two coats of paint and that's all over the place who do not receive a mirror.

I'll take you on a little excursion. Because I decided to leave glass cutting to the professionals, I contacted Glass Statewide in Kissimmee, Florida and they are cutting them for me. They have been very helpful and fantastic to work with and are giving me a lot for you to I will not ask for more. I avoid a trip to the emergency room, so I'm almost there. I'm back and I have my mirrors and we can make this look so glamorous, but before we permanently attach our mirror to the drawer, I want to do a dry fit to have minimal or pre-drilling where the knobs would go, so that I just want to pre-drill them into the wood and it fits like a glove, so what we're going to do is we're going to take a marker and then we're going to mark where the knobs go, we're going to take our drill and we're going to pre-drill those holes, so now that we have the holes pierced, we will simply apply some of these liquid nails. and I'll just make it in an S shape and then I'll put the mirror in place it should go in without any problem and then I'll just move it back and forth slightly there should be a little bit of wiggle room and then just make sure your holes everyone is lined up, we decided to take the party upstairs, to the bedroom where it will really be.

I'm planning on doing a complete bedroom renovation over the next month, so stay tuned for that, so I'm going to just squeeze out a bunch of adhesive that the state recommended glass gave me, since it goes on top, it should make it a quarter of an inch thick. I did an eighth of an inch everywhere else, so that's what looks perfect, so now to hold it. in place while it dries and you should do this on all the pieces just use blue tape because it will keep it in place without ruining the paint okay there's a reason oh this is going in mom's room and not the a child's room, and it's because it makes fingerprints and we've handled the mirrors a lot, so now it's time to clean them and make everything shiny, so now it's time to add some jewelry.

These glass knobs I bought on Amazon. I stopped buying knobs and hardware on this a long time ago at big box stores it was much more affordable and cheaper to buy it online either eBay or Amazon so I'll link to these below but they ended up costing like 83 cents and a knob in big box stores. In stores it was going to be $4 per knob so it's a huge savings and something I highly recommend a little side note because we added the mirror we needed a slightly longer screw so I went out and bought one at a quarter inch, they come with an inch so I save them for another time, I may need them later.

You want to make sure you attach them tight enough that they are secure and not so tight that the glass breaks. So be careful, I'm on my way to goodwill. I'm 45 minutes away from going to this goodwill because I just haven't had the best luck wandering in my area. I hope to find a bank today because we are calling. from a ceramic barn bench and I'm going to show you how to make a cover, wish me luck. I've been struggling to find a good thrift store here, if not I have a good backup and we'll use it on the Facebook marketplace. to see what I can find, I think I might have hit the mother lode because it says goodwill outlet and I hope that means heavily discounted stuff.

I hope all my locks dreams are about to come true, they certainly were. the most different kind of goodwill I've ever been in, it was all in this giant container. I guess that's why they call it an outlet. I have another idea so I'm going to try it, a fun simplification, no dice, so here we go. I'm going to try Habitat for Humanity ReStore, okay, no luck at Habitat ReStore, so I think it's time to look on Facebook. I should have done it to begin with, but I'm really trying to find some good thrift stores and I just got it.

We're back from our thrifting adventures and I still haven't found a good thrift store, so if you know of any good thrift stores for furniture and home decor items in the greater Orlando area, hit up a girl and let me know. love to drift, but in the end we made it and We found this on Facebook marketplace and I learned from that experience that if you find something that works, go find it. In my case, I was just hoping to find some savings along the way, which I didn't, but I finished. with a good bench and this floral fabric is so pretty when I was looking for a piece I really wanted something that had more or less the same dimensions as the original and this is it is a little bit narrower not much but other than that the width and height and that's all good for what we're looking for what we're going to do is a cover making a cover especially on a bench like this this is straight sewing you can handle it I promise and I'll show you how to do it the first thing we're going to do is this have a tuft with just a couple of buttons and we're going to remove them on our inspiration piece, it came out smooth and I'm also going to go ahead and try to remove this. piping because I don't want it to be a bulk on our covers and now this part is completely optional you don't have to do this this is just my personal preference I think there may be some indentations from where the buttons were I'm just going to add a layer of batting that I already had on it and that was left over from a dining room chair makeover.

If you haven't seen that episode, I'll put the link in this description box below, be careful later. I totally transform my dining room chairs, that's another one if you're interested in reupholstering or sub-founding. I wanted to show you the fabric I got to match this one. I weighed Joanne's and found this one that is honestly pretty perfect. It's a very good combination, this is from Nate Berkus. It was regularly $19.99 per yard and of course they have cells in their home decor fabric most of the time and this is 50% off so it was $9.99 per yard which is really good for home. decorative fabric that can really cost you a lot of money so let's turn this around and see if we did a good job this is the moment of truth and I think we did so what we're going to do is you're going to want to measure the part top and I already know we have about 48 inches and I think it's about 18 inches, not 16, so I'm going to trim it to be a little bit bigger because you want to allow for the type. like a seam allowance, so I'm going to cut it to 49 by 17, which is not a ten, but I don't want it to be too big, so I want it placed on top, we want to measure the top. to the floor, so after you have all the measurements, I suggest adding about 3/4 inch to each side for seam allowances, and since we're basically cutting out a bunch of rectangles, all you really need to do is add a inch and a half to the ground. all your dimensions when you cut the fabric, since there are no curved pieces, it's pretty simple, but whenever I make a cover, I usually add about an extra 3/4 inch for all the seam allowances, since this is a fabric striped, I try to center everything. of my stripes in the middle so they balance out and aren't off center and then when you're doing ahem, I do a lot for about an inch for the hem at the bottom and 3/4 for the seam allowance at the top, this It's really simple, you don't have to make any weird cuts and then we'll make some ends to put underneath, for the corner, so you don't see this floral fabric peeking out because that wouldn't be very pretty for those of you. who are just starting to sew or have never sewn before, this is actually a pretty easy project and I think you can do it.

I have a video, it's one of my few videos on IG TV where I show you how to thread a machine. how to thread a bobbin and also how to do a straight stitch and then I'll put the link in the description box below so if you've never done it before you can check out that video to get some basics. sewing skills we are going to start by making a finished edge on all of the side pieces leaving four and a half inches unstitched at the top where they will join together. Now the correct way to do it is to finish all the edges. of a six AG or a serger.

I don't do it a lot and I think it's okay, the problem is that when you go to wash it is when you really have problems, so I will tell you that you should probably do your Finish the edges with the zigzag, but I'm probably not going to judge, don't judge because our piece has stripes and doesn't it look so beautiful with my other stripes? Anyway, it doesn't contrast at all because it's a stripe. I want to be very careful. on how I make the piping so that's what we're going to do now is work on the piping and make sure everything lines up so I cut my fabric to an inch and a half and then I'm going to attach my piping. inside and we'll sew a seam, but before we do that I want to make sure that all of our stripes are lined up and when we go around to the back they'll all be lined up, so we'll cut this on the edges to match.

To continue with the stripes, we're also going to make sure that the stripes line up with the side pieces as well, so we want all of the piping to line up with each of our pieces, so to do that we just need to take a little bit more of time than normal. I usually say that the trim doesn't matter much, but when you make stripes like this, it does. This will take a little more time, but it will be worth it in the end. It will make our imitation even more convincing because I was very concerned about making sure the stripes matched.

I'm making my piping a little different so I wanted to tell you and show you what I'm doing. First of all, I really like using 5/32 pipes. I buy them in bulk on Amazon because it's the cheapest that way. It ends up being like, I don't know, 25 cents a yard, so it's ridiculously cheap and let's go. I ended up needing maybe three yards max, so it ends up being like 75 cents for our project, super cheap, so what I did was I went ahead and lined up all the stripes and you can see and then I've already sewn the seams in the corners and right when I do the piping I'll do it as I go and that way I know my stripes will match up a lot of times. make a bunch of pipes and just go to town because it doesn't really matter because there's a busy pattern or something because of the stripes.

I'm going to do it as I go and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my piping and we're going to put it inside, right in the center, right there, and we're going to wrap our fabric around it and make sure it's tucked back in tight and then, As we go along, I'll just sew it to the fabric and we'll sew it into place and then we'll know our stripes will match. This is not normally how I do it, but I think for this situation it is the best option. I leave the first few inches of my trim. no sewing all the way to the end and you'll see why also when I do the binding I use my zipper foot and you would pretty much use this for the rest of the project.

This helps you get right next to the binding without pushing it out of the way when you get to the corner leave the needle in the fabric lift the presser foot and turn the fabric and then replace the presser foot and so on again when you get to the end what are you going to do Make sure Make sure the trim is cut to where the corner is, but leave about an inch of extra fabric that we will then fold back and wrap around the starter piece. This time I did this in the corner, but I usually don't do that.

I like to do it. on the straight edge because it makes it a little bit easier, but doing this process gives it a much more finished feel instead of crossing them and cutting them, it just looks better this way, it's a lot of fun. I had exactly the right amount of thread on my spool. to finish this off, it literally ran out while we were finishing the piping, this is the hardest part so now it's going to be smooth sailing from here and we're going to get the skirt on right, so now we're going to sew each corner of the skirt. together and after that we're going to put the corner flaps on to hide anything from the corners, so the way I attach the top to the sides is I always start at the corners.

I always put pins in my mouth. I know it's not like that. Most likely, but this is how I do it, don't do this inhouse if my mom is watching I'm sorry I know you taught me better so I find the corner and match it to the seam and put a pin there and then move to In our case in the center we have perfect places to put pins . We're just going to place them on each corner of the stripes to make sure that all the stripes are lined up so we're going to go ahead and pin this all in place and then we're going to sew and then the last thing we all need to do is just hem it and we'll be done finished and we'll see what a good imitation I did, so I want to show you a booboo.

That happened, it will surely happen. I've been sewing for 30 years, over 30 years, even with all that experience under my belt, things happen when you work with many different layers of fabric, so I'm going to show you that. there's a boo-boo right here in the corner and then there's one thing I want to modify and I want to get a little bit closer to the original and that's just to squeeze it in the corner so it's slightly closer to the original. I will notice that in the corners it retracts and is a little tight. I almost think it looks like a bug, you know, like it's retracting like a little bit tighter than it should, but for the sake of trickery, let's mimic it and go for that look too, okay, so you can see right here that I frowned and everything we will do. is we're just going to take this apart and redo this little section here, we don't need to redo everything, we're just going to open up the seam here, smooth that out and fix that mistake and here to get it.

To pull, we'll just pull this seam a little tighter so it looks a little like the original instead of doing a traditional hem. I decide to use peel-and-stick tape so the seams don't show. This seems to match the original. The best thing is that my hem ended up measuring an inch and a quarter and it's as easy as peeling and sticking the tape to the fabric and pressing it, so the price advertised on the website was nine hundred and fifty dollars, but I wanted to see the price real once you included shipping, so I went through the checkout process and found out that when you add shipping and taxes and all that, you already have one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and you're going to have to wait six weeks to get it as far as to imitations.

I feel like this is as close as you can get. I ended up spending about forty-eight dollars, which is less than five percent of the original cost, so about ninety percent. Five percent savings, that's pretty good. I don't know if I could bear to spend all that extra money if you enjoyed this episode. Here's another one that I think all my DIY Niners will like too. Thanks so much for looking. see you next time bye