RESTORATION HARDWARE DIY DUPES ROOM DECOR | HIGH END HACKS | DOLLAR TREE DUPES

Hello everyone, I'm Rosemary and I'm back with another

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-end

decor

dollar

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copy, this time featuring the exclusive elegance of

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hardware

. This is actually the fifth video in the series and in the previous videos I made copies of anthropological ceramics in

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s. barn west elm and magnolia and I'll link a playlist here and in the description, but for now let's jump into this video with

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accessories, etched concrete vase that retails for 95 for this project. I'm going to use one of the big dollar

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cylinders. vases as well as some dollar tree putty and I'm going to cut the putty pretty low on the nozzle because I want to be able to get it out pretty quickly.

I also need a container of water, a spreader for the putty and then just a comb that I cut in half so I'm just going to take the base that I cleaned and prepared for this project and then like I mentioned I'm going to spread that putty and then I'm going to take my spreader . and spread it all over to get a nice even layer all over the vase and then to get rid of those ridges I'm just going to dip my fingers in a little bit of water and spread it right over the top of the putty and it'll give me a nice, even, smooth finish, and I also do that around the top of the vase.

I then took the largest piece of my comb and just went straight into the putty with the comb pulling it around and through the putty. Now it would be nice if I had some paper towels there. I went to get some later, but make sure you have some paper towels on hand to clean the comb so there's no putty buildup and you can get those nice clean ridges now. Every row that I do I have a designated start and stop point so that all sort of free space is at the back of the vase and then once I created all my little ridges I came back with some sand where I got this from. the dollar trees from another project, so they're in a regular little plastic bag and I'm just spraying it all over to create a nice textured finish and then to make sure the vase stays upright, I won't have any problems.

I went back and made sure everything was clean on the bottom, once the putty was dry it was time to paint and my first choice for paint was to use Waverly in the steel color and then I went ahead and added about a tablespoon of water to Thin the paint a little. I just wanted to make sure the paint was nice and thin so it goes in all the lines of the base and here you can see how that thinned paint allows you to do that. I just used the sponge brush to get it into those little crevices with the tip and then I started squishing it into the cracks and making sure to fill in all those little grooves that I was in the process of making or I was getting the paint ready for the top coat and I hit I realized that the base coat wasn't really the right color so I stopped doing this and switched to creating a new base coat and then here is my new color choice.

Now, however, the color wavers. mineral with a drop of black chalk paint I also added back a tablespoon of water and I'll save you from watching me paint again and I'll just show you through the magic television here you see the new colorful vase and now let's get back to where we are. I skipped over and went back to

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ative paint, so I'm going to use the Waverly Ivory paint for that. I also added a drop of Waverly mineral paint to dull it a bit. I do not want that. stark contrast between the two different pink colors and to apply this layer I'm going to use a makeup sponge and all I'm going to do is gently go over the ridges made by the putty and just gently apply the paint there and I'll do that around the vase and then here you can see the finished project next to the original and as you can see the duped dollar is a little smaller but you can always do the same technique on a larger vase to get something much more comparable to the piece of

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from restoration, now I think the color still needs a little tweaking, so you might want to work on that too.

Next up is the Weathered Stone Flared Pedestal Bowl that retails for $225 for this next project. I'm going to use a selection of bowls from the dollar tree, including the serving bowl from the party section and these two plastic bowls, the larger one comes in a set that's two for a dollar and the smaller one is in a set three and four dollars. I'll also use I'll be using a little bit more putty and I'll just add a little bit of putty to the bottom of the small bowl and then I'll take the larger bowl and put the two back to back and then I'll add a little bit of putty back to the inside of that bowl more. large and then just place the large serving bowl right in, making sure it's straight and easy and then once the putty was in place and all the pieces secured together, I took a little more putty and this time I wanted to use it. as a filler between the bowls and then to smooth out the putty and get a nice sleek finish I just dip my fingers in some water again and then smooth out the putty and then repeat the process for the space between the middle and bottom bowl.

Once that round of putty was in place, I went back and covered the entire piece with a coat of mod podge and then once that was dry, I painted with a mix of Waverly chalk paint in the mineral color and a little bit of putty. dollar tree and I will mix them in a one to one ratio and I will paint three coats of this mixture over the piece and then this is what the piece looks like after I have painted it with three coats of mineral putty paint and then for the decorative paint I'm going to use a mixture of white chalk paint and caulk in a one to one ratio again and also want to tone it down again with some mineral paint to apply the decorative paint.

I'm going to use a makeup wedge and at first I'm going to use the back square part and then I'm going to dip it into the paint to remove any excess and then I'm going to start tossing it onto the surface of the bowls. I'm going to do this harder. in some places and then lighter and in others to continue with the pattern of the original, I will use the front edge of the wedge to get into the small cracks and crevices between the bowls, in addition to the makeup sponge, I also used one from the chip. dollar tree brushes and found that it actually mimicked the pattern and details of the original better, but I still liked the makeup sponge to get the right texture on the piece for darker accents.

I'm going to use some dark brown craft. paint and just add that to my original base mix to create a dark accent paint and then I'll again use a makeup sponge and gently go over the edges of the bowl as well as the body of the bowl where the texture is. It kind of peeks out, I'm just gently brushing the top of those spikes into the texture and then here you can see the finished project next to the original, now the proportions of the duped dollar are off and it's not as wide compared to the height. like the original and is not as large overall as the original, but at 11 inches tall and 9 inches wide it is still a pretty sizable statement piece and is a fraction of the cost of the next piece.

I tried my hand at the restoration hardware paper mache bowl. With a retail price of $195 for this project, I am again going to use the large plastic dollar tree serving bowl. I'm also going to use some of this dollar tree toilet paper and it's a 2 ply that breaks down really easily and I'm just going to separate it into squares. Then I'm also going to remove some of the edges from those squares, so I'll just put them together and then roughly remove the edges and create a little stack there. so I have a bunch ready to use and I will glue the pieces of toilet paper to the container with some diluted school glue.

Now this one is too thin, but I'll show you that in a second, but I also wanted to show you that for the base of the little bottom of the bowl I'm going to use the lid from this nut jar and I'm going to set it aside for now and then I'll go back to the bowl. and just start applying the glue right to the side of the bowl and then just apply the little pieces of toilet paper right on top of it and just fold them over the edge of the bowl and continue going down the entire bowl now.

The reason I say the glue is too thin is because I needed it to be thin so it would break down the fibers of the paper, but it's too thin and it was tearing the paper, so I had to go back and add a little more glue and the consistency you see is the best consistency for this method of making paper mache. Now I know there are all kinds of paper mache methods where you put the glue and mix it with a mixer and actually use the bowl just as a mold. and all that good stuff, yeah, this is a fabulous tax, we're going to make it as easy as possible, just go ahead and use the dollar tree bowl and it'll stay there and just go ahead and glue the pieces together. right into the bowl and then to make it easier to do this project and not have to hold the bowl, I just took the nut container that I'm using the lid from and placed the bowl on top of that and then that.

I just created a nice little work stand so I can keep the bowl on top and then I can use both hands and apply the papers much easier and then once I finished the first layer I came back with a second layer and everything All I had to do was just put them directly in the bowl. I didn't have to add any more glue because the glue from the first layer was still wet and coming out the sides, so I only needed to add that second layer. and just press it down into the glue and the first layer of paper and then after applying all the pieces of glue I came back with a second layer of the glue mixture but if the paper starts to tear and you have problems with that just let that layer dry completely before going back and adding the second layer of glue and then this is what the bowl looks like after the second layer of paper was applied and the glue dried and I also did the inside of the bowl.

Now the original also has this surrounding strip as well as a wider border to get the wider border. I simply painted the glue mixture right on the inside top of the container and then took a square of toilet paper and stuck it there also painted lengthwise. the edge itself and I started folding the piece of toilet paper like some kind of accordion and then I just turned it around and glued the top outside of the container and then I just shaped it into place for the strip. I took a piece of toilet paper. I let it fold and I just rolled it up and then I just shaped it and then I took a little bit of the glue mixture and I applied it there in the space where it would go on the bowl and then I just glued the rolled piece together.

From the toilet paper for the base, I simply took the lid of the nut container that I had covered with toilet paper and then glued it with a little e6000 directly to the base. Next, I will paint the entire piece with a little hazelnut. chalk paint, but since I'm running out of hazelnut, I remembered I had this fog tint paint sample from Lowe's that I bought for 25 dollars, very similar in color to hazelnut, so I went ahead and used it for the decorative paint , I took some white chalk paint that I toned down again with a little bit of this hazelnut color and I don't want that stark contrast, so this helps me tone it down a little bit and softens the white so that contrast isn't so sharp, like this that I go ahead and apply the lighter color to the surface of the bowl and I'm just hitting the spots where the paper mache lifts up and just giving it that layer while still allowing the base layer to shine through and, like the other piece, too it's heavier in some spots, the decorative layer and later in others, so I'm just going through and adding it slightly on top of the paper mache, but also heavier. in some places and then in others for the darker accent tones, I'm going to use what I had left over from the last project as well as some of this brown craft paint and start with the brown craft paint.

I'm going to use a makeup sponge again. I'm going to remove the best part of the paint because I don't want to apply too much. I want to make sure you know that I can control how much paint goes on the surface. and I'm going to pretty much follow the original to see where the dark shading is and where are these little accents and little indentations and scratches on the original piece and they're coming pretty much along the base and also the little stripe along the part top and some scattered dots in the middle as well, so on top of that, there's also a nice kind of reddish shading and to get that effect, I removed most of that brown paint from the sponge and then just used a practically dry sponge to apply and just very lightly shade the surface and rub it to mute it.

I don't want any heavy colors, just very muted, very soft tones and then I ended up refining the accent paint along the edges and the base and firstI started with that really dark color. I'm just smudging it using this kind of crooked brush that I had and again doing that kind of I swept it over the edges and along the base, then the next one I did was mineral once the paint was dry, so every time I the paint needs to dry and then this time I went back to my dollar tree chip brush and I'm loading this up. pretty good, I just want to make sure I'm getting some off, but I also want it fully loaded if that makes any sense, so I don't want just some of the bristles to have paint on them, I want a full load. but not an extraordinary amount and then I just do this jump at once and just move the brush, then I'll reload it and do the same thing.

Now I also do this with that lighter brown color and unfortunately that didn't make it into the film, but I do three pieces or three different types of paint for these edges and it's the dark tone and then that mineral and then also that chocolate brown color that shown before and I'm applying them with the same method where I load the brush and jump and move on and then here you can see the finished project next to the original and As you can see, they're pretty similar in size and actually the dollar duped it looks more paper mache than the original.

The original looks like stone or concrete or something, but either way, you can certainly get that look for a lot less for the latter project. I'm going to try selling the Tare panel of restoration hardware for a whopping $315 for the short and $365 for the tall to start. I'm going to use this dollar tree shipping box. Now you can use any cardboard you want. I was at Dollar Tree and saw these and couldn't believe how much they were in size ratio needed for this project so I went ahead and grabbed one of these and now I'm going to cut it out. on all four pieces or all four sides into pieces and then for the smaller ones, I'm going to cut them a little bit shorter.

I'm going to measure 12 inches and then mark there and then just cut them to get to this point. stage, I had two 14-by-10-inch pieces and two 12-by-8-inch pieces. My next step was to tape the two pieces together or tape the two same size pieces together, so I'm just going to use a little bit of tape. And just go ahead and glue them together on three sides leaving the bottom open and then I'll repeat that for the larger cardboard pieces, once the tape is complete I'll follow up with some mod podge and paint the back and front of both pieces once the mod podge was dry it was time to apply putty to the surface.

I'm only going to putty on one side, but it takes two tubes of dollar tree putty for the small one and three tubes. for the larger one, once I had a good amount of caulk on the surface I simply took my spreader again and spread the caulk all over the front of the panel and then once I had a nice even layer of caulk applied I went back again . with a little water on my fingertips and simply smoothed the surface to create the first design on the panel. I'm going to go back to the comb from the first DIY in this video and just go ahead and create a little feathering effect on top. and the bottom of the panel, now this is the small panel that I'm working on first and I'm using this comb again to create a little bit of a fade at the top and bottom, then I'm going to come back with this wedge and like a little piece of wood and go ahead and create the lines that go across the shorter panel and I do it just by eye and just looking at it and then using that wedge to create the pattern in the putty to give the relief lines a little bit of texture.

I'm going to go back with the thin side of the wedge and just add a little bit of design there on top of the lines and then for the larger panel I'm going to again do that feather design with the comb. but this time I'm going to do it on the sides of the panel and you'll notice how I did it here and then also on the first one where I just pressed it in, but then you'll see here I discovered a better way to do it where I'm actually pulling the comb and creating a design better.

I went back and fixed the first one too, but this is a much better way to get that fade effect on the sides. of the panels to create the design on this panel I took a toothpick and cut every other end and then simply used it to pull down through the putty and create the design. The larger panel also has horizontal lines and I just use again the I chose to create those. I noticed that the smaller panel also had some vertical lines and I went back with the back of the comb and simply created those on that panel as well to create the support.

I'm going to use one of these cat scratching boards. the dollar tree and I'm going to measure 7 inches and draw a line there and then I'm just going to use this paint stick here to cut with my knife at the end. I will have a seven inch piece and an eight and a half inch piece. inches, then I took some masking tape and taped it around all the edges of the posts. I'm going to use two of the large BBQ skewers from Dollar Tree and measure them with my tape measure. 17 inches. I'm going to mark and cut there, I'm also going to cut those pointy edges because they're sharp and then I broke the putty again so I just put it there on top of the cat scratcher and used my spreader to spread it along the top and push it into all those little cracks that are in the dash that I also made around the sides of the dash and I also want to point out that it is important to use the Dollar Tree brand putty that I had run out of and I used some putty that I had in my garage now I don't know which one is the difference, but the other one, the one from Home Depot, was very flexible and therefore did not create a good hold for the poles, however, the Dollar Tree brand dried up. hard as a rock and created a great base, another thing you want to do is make sure the holes are very small, don't make a hole too big and also put a lot of caulk inside the hole and then let everything dry overnight and it will create a great base for your project and then once the putty was dry on my panels it was time to paint so I wanted to create a base coat in a sort of terracotta color so I grabbed truffle and chalk paints of Waverly pumpkin and I simply mixed them together to create that darker orange tone and then proceeded to paint both panels with a base coat of this color of paint.

I used the brush to make sure I got into all the little crevices in between. the lines and since the putty was set on my brackets, I took them out from the back to give them a coat of black spray paint for the decorative painting of my panels. I'm going to take some white chalk paint and then also some hazel colored chalk paint and mix the two together it's about a three quarters to one quarter ratio. I then took that paint and added about the same amount of putty to it to add some texture to my top coat.

I started with the smallest panel first again, following the layout of the original. now the original has this kind of shading lighter in the top left corner and then again in the right corner and then a little bit lighter in the middle but or less in the middle and even when you look at it there is It won't look white like this or a light light color on top, there will be shadows in the middle and we'll get to that in a minute, but first I'm going to do this layer and then we'll see. How I shade on top of this next, I'm going to start on the larger panel again following the original design and I'm also going to shade on top of this, but I need to apply this layer of lighter color paint first and then once. that lighter paint was dry, I went back with the darker shading and I'm using that dark paint again from the second project, actually now that I've been using it as a decorative paint and I'm just going to do this first piece. on those horizontal lines and then I added some other dark accents in the different areas again, just following the original piece, then I switched to the makeup sponge and I'm using the darker shade that I was using. in this piece, as well as the kind of chocolate bar brown color that I was using on the paper mache bowl and that's when I went in and used the sponge to do a very dry brush, sort of blurring effect using both. of those paint colors and just shading and shading following the design of the original piece and just using those colors to mix and shading and shading to create this kind of wood effect and now going back to the smaller piece again just using that brown color very little chocolate on the sponge.

I'm using the square end of the sponge and repainting that lighter color paint, just shading and shading very similar to what the original piece has. I'm also using that darker color paint to mimic the stains again. where those darker tones show up in the original piece and again, using very little paint, I can go back and add more if I need to, but I just want to get that shading and just blush and dab that paint very lightly at first. and just slowly getting into that whole effect and making sure not to put too much weight anywhere because you want to keep that dimension of the multiple colors and then once the paint was dry I was able to place my panel on the stand and here it is after I had it painted with black spray paint and all you need to do is just slide the posts right into your panel pocket and it will hold it up beautifully except for the fact that that bracket was too wobbly so I wanted to add some reinforcements and what What I did was grab these little building blocks, uh, they're from the dollar tree, get them in the teaching section, so I put two of these together, they come as little pieces.

They're colorful, they have a couple of black ones, but there's only one pair in a package and what I'm going to do is take two of the pieces and put them together. First I added some e6000 in there to create an extra strong bond and then I also did some e6000 in the hole and then around the outside of the hole and then placed the little pair of building blocks inside the hole, then I'll add some putty and then I'll replace my stick inside of that and then Once the glue and putty are ready, I'll go ahead and touch them up with some black paint and then here you can see the finished project next to the original and now, of course, our dollar fooled will have that little extra piece down there. at the bottom and is about a third smaller than the original, but gives that great restoration hardware feel, especially if you have tastes on a budget, I hope you enjoyed this latest edition of my

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-end decor. series if you enjoyed the video remember to give a big thumbs up and let me know in the comments which one was your favorite and don't forget to come back next week to see which high end retailer I'll pick next if you want.

I would like to see the other videos in the series. I will provide links here and in the description. Thank you very much for watching and we'll see you next time.