10 Cheap Dupes of High-End Antique Home Decor/Get the Look for Less

Are you surprised by the prices at

antique

malls today? Well a few weeks ago I visited an amazing

antique

mall in Fort Worth, Texas that I shared with you in last week's video, unfortunately I couldn't afford their

high

prices but I came

home

with a lot of inspiration so in Today's video I will duplicate 10 of the old and vintage items I saw there. If I had bought them, I would have spent over five hundred dollars, but I was actually able to swindle them for

less

than five dollars each. a couple of them were completely free. I can't wait to show them to you, so let's get started.

The first thing I wanted to try to duplicate was this $45 can of syrup. I found a nearly empty can of liquid sandpaper in my garage and gave it a couple coats of a moss green satin spray paint. When the spray paint was dry, I rubbed some antique wax over the can to give it a more polished

look

. aged. I found several old syrup labels online and printed one that I liked even more than the inspiration one. can to adhere the label I applied Mod Podge to the side of the can and to the back of the label, carefully smoothing out any wrinkles.

I wanted to use my can as an interesting vase, so I picked out some faux flowers from my stash that I thought coordinated. Well, with my vintage tag I added some Spanish moss to hold them firmly in place instead of hot gluing them in case I ever want to change them. Thank you. I'm sure those of you who know me guessed that I would try to trick this one. vintage strawberry print I found the image online and resized it in Canva so that it fit perfectly within the selected frame. I found a vintage frame at the thrift store for only a dollar, it will help make my new print

look

like a real antique.

I think mine looks older than the one in the foreign lard can at the antique store. I immediately remembered the metal can in my garage that I bought at a garage sale for only three dollars while I was at the antique mall. I took three nearby boxes separately. I took images of the label and then stitched them together in Canva to create a large, realistic label because it was larger than letter size. I went to my husband's work and printed it out on an 11 by 17 piece of paper once I cut it out. I applied Mod Podge to the can and the back of the label and then adhered it to the can.

I'm out of time, but I plan to stencil the words 50 pounds net weight on top of the foreign label. I loved this vintage sieve with the green wood. mango and decided to see if I could make one for free using an empty chicken broth can and a spindle from an old magazine rack. I cut the shaft to the desired size and then drilled a small hole in each end of the shaft which I marked on the can to show where the holes would go in the handle and drilled holes in those locations, then put two long screws into the holes on each end of the axis.

I was going to use two pieces I had cut from the shaft to join together. I moved it closer to the can, but those pieces ended up breaking, so I used a couple of wooden beads and then painted the wooden handle with a couple of coats of moss green chalk paint to make my can look rusty and old. I brushed it with some toilet bowl cleaner. and I let it sit for a day or two. I filled the can with some styrofoam and then added some fake plants and fruits that I got from a secondhand Arrangement 299.

Since I added some fake apples, printed out an old Apple label and decoupled it for a small piece of wood and added it to my fake sieve when I saw these twenty dollar owl pillows, I knew it would be a pretty easy trap. I would only need some iron on transfers for light colored fabrics, these print on eight and a half by 11 sheets and I wanted a larger size so I printed two separate images, one with the top half of The Owl and the other with the lower half of the owl so that the seam between the two pieces was

less

noticeable.

I didn't cut the pieces. Instead, in a straight line, I followed the pattern of owl feathers. I lined up the two pieces of transfer paper on the leg of an old pant, making sure the transfers overlapped by about an eighth of an inch, and then followed the transfer instructions that go over the two transfers with a hot iron for about three minutes, I let it cool for about 30 seconds and then removed the paper. I cut around the owl shape and then sewed and stuffed my owl pillow for the next project I decided to combine. a pretty gold frame with a pressed botanical.

I decided to use a stem of goldenrod which most people in the Midwest consider a weed. I cut my stem to size and plucked a few leaves, then placed it between two pieces of parchment paper. I made sure there was no water in my iron and turned off the steam setting. Then I started pressing the plant between the parchment paper. I would hold it down for 15 seconds, pick it up and move it to a different spot for another 15 seconds. I just kept repeating this process until the plant was completely dry. I already had a gold frame in my stash that I wanted to use, so I cut a piece of black cardstock to fit inside that frame and then applied spray adhesive to the back of my dried flower. and I pressed it against the cardboard.

I looked up the Latin name Goldenrod and printed that name on an old piece of paper I had. I used a glue stick to adhere the strip of paper to the cardstock. The frame was a fairly shiny gold. which I wanted to tone down so I applied some old wax to wipe off the excess and I love how it turned out. I was very surprised that someone tried to sell this deconstructed watch for $85. I have a similar clock that I bought at Unfortunately Goodwill for five dollars, when I started to take my clock apart I found a

cheap

mechanism that runs on batteries inside, not the nice clock parts like the clock at the Antique Mall.

Once After I removed the watch face, I gave the watch a couple of coats of black latex. I painted when the second coat of paint was dry. I used some sandpaper to roughen the edges of the clock. I removed the glass from the clock face and then carefully removed the clock hands and the battery operated mechanism on the back. I saved these clock parts for another project, then I printed an image of an antique clock face in a size that would fit my existing clock face and then used some black chalk paint to paint the plastic edge of the watch face and the plastic ring it holds.

With the glass in place, I cut out the new clock face and used a glue stick to adhere it over the existing clock face. I could have put the battery operated clock parts back in, but I didn't really care if this clock worked or not, instead I found a couple. random metal pieces that I hot glued to the clock face to give it a more realistic look. What do you think looks like a real antique? This little stool caught my eye because I have an old English fox hunting theme in my living room. For this project I decided to reuse an old cutting board and some wooden axles from my garage.

I first cut the axles to create legs, then marked the location of the legs on the cutting board and drilled holes throughout the board and then Countersunk the holes into the top of the board. I drilled holes in the center of each leg and attached them to the board with wood glue and a long screw drilled through the top of the board and leg, then filled the screw hole. Using some wood putty that I sanded lightly once dry, I painted the tabletop with a couple coats of black latex paint and distressed the edges when the paint was dry, but decided to leave the legs in their natural wooden state.

I found a fox. hunting image that I uploaded to Cricut design space so I could print and cut it out on my Cricut machine, but you can cut out the design with a good pair of scissors if you use a cutting machine. I would recommend printing on cardstock, but if you're just using scissors. I would print on regular copy paper to adhere the cutouts to the stool. I applied Mod Podge to the back of the image and the stool. I then wiped off the excess Mod Podge. I let the Mod Podge dry completely. and then I sealed the top of the stool with several thin coats of polycrylic letting each coat of polycrylic dry before applying the next coat thanks this

decor

ative jar with a fox hunting theme also caught my attention I found a white jar for three dollars at Goodwill which I thought would work for this project I first sprayed it with sensor primer and when the primer was dry I gave it two light coats of moss green spray paint and then I applied some gold metallic paint as an accent in some spots I printed an image that I thought it went well with the green paint and in a size that fit on the side of my jar.

I printed the image on regular copy paper and then applied Mod Podge to the back of the image and the side. jar by carefully smoothing out the wrinkles because my jar has angled sides, the edges of my image were not straight so unfortunately I had to use an X-Acto knife to cut them straight and then carefully removed the excess paper and scraped off some of the green . paint, so to touch it up I sprayed some green spray paint on the lid and applied it to the jar. When my touch up paint was dry I applied the metallic gold paint over the top and side edges of the image and when the metallic paint was dry I went over the image with another coat of Mod Podge and finally when the Mod Podge was dry, I applied a little antique wax over the entire jar to give it a more aged look.

Thank you. I thought this vintage pear tray was really pretty to fool you. I used a two dollar tray from Goodwill that I painted with black latex paint when the black paint was dry. I drew a simple design around the inside edges using a gold paint pen. I originally printed the pair of images on a water slide. decal, but I felt like the decals looked like

cheap

stickers on the black paint, so I cleaned them up and printed the pictures of the pair on regular copy paper. I cut them out with scissors and put them in the tray with Mod Podge when the Mod Podge was dry.

I applied several thin coats of polycrylic over the surface of the foreign surface making today's video and I hope you enjoyed it too. I think my favorite project was the flower slash weed that I pressed and it was totally free. I would love to know which one was the duplicate. your favorite thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you next week bye for now if you enjoyed these

high

priced duplicates here's another video that I think you'll like thank you