upcycle, repurpose and reinvent your space
So, I definitely don’t consider myself an expert on furniture transformations, although I’m not afraid to give anything a try. But I helped a friend of mine give her cute little bike cart an aged look recently and I noticed one big hesitation she had through the entire thing that I kept saying “this is the trick to an authentic looking aged paint technique”.
And I thought, if this was news to her it might be news to you, too.
First, her cute little bike cart. [Read more…]
Ok, so maybe you see a bed frame or headboard/footboard set you absolutely love but they are not the right size for your bed?
Or maybe you think you’ll try your hand at making a bed frame and decided to make the measurements 2 inches bigger than your mattress on all sides for some silly reason.
Here are a whole list of things I did while making the bed frame that I highly recommend you do not. 🙂
Either way, here’s a super simple way to fake a bigger bed than you actually have. [Read more…]