Still not doing it yet.
But here is something else awesome that I made from cardboard (among other things) and I want to show it off.
Have a look at my DIY: Bulletin Board, or "cork board alternative" as I like to call it. So chic, I know.
Remember how I mentioned (a few times) that I made an upholstered headboard from cardboard and promised that I would post a tutorial for it and totally never did?
Still not doing it yet. But here is something else awesome that I made from cardboard (among other things) and I want to show it off. Have a look at my DIY: Bulletin Board, or "cork board alternative" as I like to call it. So chic, I know.
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If you've read my other posts then you know that I recently upgraded my mattress set.
Now lucky for me I got one of those (odd) fancy-smancy new mattress sets that don't need to be flipped (like I said, odd) and have one plush side for you to sleep on and one flat side that is made to sit on the box spring and not slide around on it. Kind of cool (still odd), but I know from previous experience that sometimes mattresses slip and slide on the box spring or bed frame, especially when they don't have that cool bottom surface. What to do?
Painting not your forte? Don't want to paint over your last DIY canvas, yet tired of looking at it?
Well then I have something that ought to do the trick! *drumroll please* Cover an old canvas painting -- or a blank one -- with fabric! It may just be even easier than it sounds, too.
Do you like my focus in the title? Why is it there, you ask? Because the only things I really did to 'makeover' my bedroom was change the wall art above the bed, change the bed, and move some trinkets around.
But the end result? Fantastic. Or at least a little more grown-up and puffy, which I like better. Tutorials on some of the things that I did to get from the Before to the After are still to come, but read below for details! Update: you can see how I made the Fabric-Covered Canvas hanging on the wall here, and the Tailored Bed Skirt tutorial here.
I have made upholstered seats and re-upholstered existing seats, but something about these out-dated glass side tables made me want to have a go at making an upholstered bench from a metal table frame alone.
And guess what? It was super easy!
I absolutely love the look of planked wood. Maybe I was born in the wrong era, but if I (had the money to even think about if I) were to go house-hunting and saw wood paneling in a room, I wouldn't run and scream. I would probably jump up and down giggling.
No, I am not entirely crazy. I don't like the 70s wooden paneling look. I like painted wood paneling. I love the texture that it brings to a wall and the character that it brings to a room. But I digress. This is not about wood paneling in a room. This. This is about something more. Something GREATER! It's about wood plank headboards and the inspiration that they provide.
I really freakin' love these things. And I plan to make my own! By the end of this week I will have upgraded from a Double bed hand-me-down, originally donated for free by a church not-for-profit organization, to a Queen-sized real big girl bed. Yay!
Making this investment was nerve-wracking for me, but as I just said: it was an investment. I stand by that. I got it for sale at half price and even then it ran for just over $500 before taxes. Add in shipping, split box spring, pillow top, a bed frame, and taxes and I hit just under $800 total for what I consider to be at least a 10-15 year investment. So with this new fantastic bed, I decided that I will need to scrap my $30 cardboard upholstered headboard (yeah, you read that right and I will post about it later, after this new bed madness) and get a new big girl headboard to match my new big girl bed. *cue little girl squeal* My inspiration came from several different sources, including various DIY tutorials and tips. Many of these are so fantastic and my taste and I want, want, want them. But not all of them. In the end, I came up with my own idea as to how I will go about DIYing this (although it is very, very similar to the others as they are all similar to each other).
This is just a little post to show the difference that a few textures and colours can make in a space.
I currently live in a basement apartment and although it is blessed with large windows and good sun exposure, it is still a basement apartment. Dim. Dark. Dank. Slowly but surely, I am aiming to fix this. This is the before:
Not bad, but still dim. (You can also see Version 1 of my spray-painted lamps sitting in the corner!)
Now here is my glorified angled after shot: |
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