DIY Summer season season School: IKEA Hack
Good morning! I’m excited to announce a model new assortment I’ll probably be a part of over the summer season: DIY Summer season season School. I’ve teamed up with an excellent group of bloggers that may convey you pleasant DIY “hacks” over the following few months, and as we communicate we’re sharing our first enterprise!
Every two weeks we’ll take care of a model new enterprise using a particular merchandise, following the beneath schedule, and each of those weeks we’ll have a link-up social gathering with the an identical theme for all of our readers:
June 4: IKEA hack
June 18th: Thrifted
July ninth: Wildcard (use one thing you want!)
July twenty third: Craft retailer
August sixth: System Retailer
August twentieth: Current in nature
Our drawback this week was to take an merchandise from IKEA and morph it into one factor we could use in our private properties. Sadly, the closest IKEAs are in numerous states and there is little or no they ship on their website, so I decided to lastly write up the tutorial for an IKEA hack I did a few years once more. That’s on no account extraordinarily distinctive nonetheless I nonetheless love this enterprise to at the moment, and should’t think about merely how cheap it was.
First up, I purchased the IKEA Leisure (which is powerful wood) for a whopping $35. Then, for in all probability essentially the most half, I adopted the steps outlined in this weblog put up by Lindsay Stephenson. Proper right here is how the nightstand appeared after I first launched it residence. Not exactly a winner however, is it?
As quickly as all the objects have been far from the sector, I was left with this:
I opted to stain the sides and the very best objects first, using a small sample can of Minwax Picket Finish in Jacobean I had lying spherical and utilized it with a foam brush.
Yesterday I freshened up the vignette on the nightstand and now I just like the piece far more!
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