Top 10 Best FARMHOUSE DIY Decor Ideas On a Budget

Top 10 Best FARMHOUSE DIY Decor Ideas On a Budget - On this episode of designs the nines I'm going to show you my top 10 farmhouse DIYs that will blow your mind so let's get started did you notice my new pretty a friend. I've been wearing an apron lately to just kind of keep my clothes a little bit cleaner when we're using power tools and working with sawdust.

 Top 10 Best FARMHOUSE DIY Decor Ideas On a Budget

I know that the idea of working with power tools is a little intimidating for some and I don't want you to feel like that so I really like this apron because it says powerful and that is exactly what I'm trying to help you feel is to feel like you are powerful and also it's kind of a little fun play on power tools because I do like to use power tools.

I know that that can be intimidating for some and I don't want you to feel like that I want you to feel powerful when you're using power tools and confident for today's project we are going to be working with some of the first power tools that, I ever worked with and that is a drill and a jigsaw and then I also have an electric staple gun that has like a brad nailing option.

We're going to use that a little bit later and all of these are really good power tools to start out on if you're trying to gain a little confidence alright so for my first farmhouse DIY, we are going to be making an awesome gothic art window similar in style to the ones that you would see Joanna Gaines used in her designs.

They're really fun they can be really really expensive and I have designed this free printable that you can get and I'll put the link in the description box below and we're going to be using this as a template and obviously, it's a little bit easier, I believe it's 24 inches by 36 so it's a good size alright enough at the intro let's get going on our project so.

I figured we could do this one of two ways so funny okay they stopped honking their horn now this is gonna make a funny segment to hear that you really want somebody's attention, oh goodness hopefully they're done okay oh my goodness, okay maybe they're done this time so, I figured that we could approach this one of two ways, the first way was to do the technique, where we take the graphite paper.

We trace this onto the board which is a really good option you could definitely do that but I just thought it might be a little tricky with the size of this I think, I have a better option and that is, I am going to take some spray glue and we are going to put some spray glue on our template and actually stick our template down to the board while we jigsaw it so we'll just peel it off afterward.

 Top 10 Best FARMHOUSE DIY Decor Ideas On a Budget

Then do a light sanding and we're gonna put paint on it so I think that it's gonna be okay oh and by the way I'm using MDF, you could use any kind of plywood that you want for this project it's scrap wood that, I had it around so it was free to me, I always have scraps leftover for my project so this is a really good way to use up scrap wood there's a breeze today this is gonna hold this in place really good so.

I'm just gonna take some spray glue and just spray it onto the wood, we're just gonna let this get tacky by letting it sit for 30 seconds kind of get rid of some of these bubbles, it's stuck down pretty good and I'm hoping that it will work out great and at least this way with the breeze that.

We've got going on this won't be flying all over the place, so we're gonna start out by switching this bit to a drill bit so, we can drill a pilot hole for our saw, blade to fit through all right so to do that all we're going, to do is loosen this up and we can pull that out then we're going to want to make sure the hole is fully.

 Top 10 Best FARMHOUSE DIY Decor Ideas On a Budget

Open you can stick that right into the hole right and then I kind of hold it in place and then, I pull the trigger and kind of hold, it tight and that will help it kind of tighten and then you just make sure it's good and tight and then there, you go and we're ready to drill some pilot holes, now we're going to start cutting so.

You want to make sure that you have protection for your eyes and so I always have my nice little safety glasses, now you may want to wear a face mask, I am in open air there's a breeze, I think I'll be okay and to be honest with you I'm kind of tired wearing face masks everywhere.

But I would recommend wearing, one I'm living a little dangerously, now we get to use our jigsaw, all you have to do is pull on the trigger yeah, we're powerful all we're going to do is take our blade stick it in one of these holes and start petting just keep cutting and keep cutting until.

we have all of the whitespace gone, okay so we've got one whole panel here nice and clean you can give a jigsaw starting around $30 or so, I've been using a $30 one for several years and it's been okay having said that I recently upgraded to this one that.

I think I got on sell for around $50 and there was a tremendous difference in ease of use and quality of cut so, I would recommend spending at least that on a jigsaw you can even go as high as $200 but this $50 one really did a great job, so you just start cutting in the jigsaw hole and then work your way over to the line.

Then Kallang that line when you get to the top of one of the points, stop and then I lifted out my jigsaw and flip the blade around and went back in the opposite direction and took it to the next corner, I kept repeating this process over and over, until all of the whitespace was gone with interruptions.

and filming it took me about an hour and a half to cut this all out so this is definitely a good afternoon project here it is isn't that just so awesome our template held up really, really well so all we need to do is kind of just remove this this can actually be the back.

If we need to but I think we'll be able to get it all off there's a couple like little spots that are a little bit of a high point so I've got my electric sander makes the job go faster I love my power tools so we're just going to go ahead and sand down some of the rough spot [Music] apparently I'm not the only one doing construction right now so I hope you don't mind the noise in the background so that's okay because I'm making noise for my neighbors but we are done sanding and we've smoothed down some of those rough spots I'm really happy with this I think it looks fantastic now I want to show you what's going to take it over the edge to make it look more authentic and just more finished looking a so I picked up this PVC flat I think it's trellis molding and this whole 8-foot section was $4 what's awesome about this is it bends and so we are going to just nail some of this to the edge to finish it off on a normal window you would have some of this and then I also had this left over from my shelf build and so I'm going to be putting this because it's a little bit thicker and a little bit more sturdy on the bottom but you could use this all the way around so that's just up to you but this way I can get away with just using one of these and then I can use this on the bottom it's a little thicker a little sturdier it looks a little bit more like a window sales what we're gonna do is we're gonna very carefully and scientifically just make this touch the bottom and then we are just gonna go little by little to get our mark and we're gonna just pinch that making it flat till we figure out where we want this and then we're gonna take a pin and Mark it now if you don't have a miter saw that's okay you can definitely get away with cutting this with your jigsaw I'm just gonna use my miter saw I'm not going to do a tutorial on that because I've done on other episodes but I'm gonna pull it out because it's going to give me a nice clean cut and that's what I'm looking for [Applause] I've got an electric staple gun what's nice about this is it also shoots Brad nails and it takes all the hard work out of it for you these are little tiny Brad nails and they're going to be perfect for what we're doing you slide those in there on the side and click it into place like that all we're going to do is drive those nails in and then we'll do the same thing to the other side and then we'll put on the bottom piece Oh My heck I love this and this little detail right here is making all the difference now I'm going to just take it inside and paint it [Music] to give it a little aged I just take a little sandpaper and scuff up the edges when it's all said and done I only spent the four dollars on the trellis trim because I had everything else on hand but if you were to recreate this look for yourself you could definitely get the job done for under $20 maybe even less if you were able to find some free scrap wood I couldn't be more thrilled with my end result the next DIY that I have for you is we are going to be doing some wood candlesticks now Joanna always goes out and has these wonderful artisans make her these things from scratch and I'm sure that that is not cheap so we're gonna fake the look Shh I won't tell if you don't have and we are gonna use wood spindles we're gonna just cut these in different varying sizes and lengths and then we will go from there and we'll just kind of see how it takes shape so for my first leg I'm going to cut it off right there right at the edge of that and then I'm going to cut it at about 18 inches so that will be right in there it doesn't need to be exact we're just kind of going for estimate so I'm just going to put a mark right there so that looks pretty good now we're gonna take another one we're gonna turn these into like some some shorter ones for this first one we will cut it off right there [Applause] so we'll turn this one into to make em work it doesn't need to be exact and now for this third one I am going to do maybe the same length as that but it's much shorter obviously but we'll keep like this part the same for a little bit of consistency okay so we've got these set of three different sizes I picked these up a Hobby Lobby there regularly $2.99 for a set of four and I make sure I get everything on 50% off sell or use a coupon so we're gonna attach those to a base just so they're a little bit more sturdy but I picked up this little bag of it's called a wooden base I don't know exactly what it is but I got it at Michael's for super cheap I didn't know what it was and I'm like I don't know what that is but I have to have it look at this if we take this wooden base and set this on top of each one of these upside down like that it really looks like the top of a candlestick I already had these on hand but if you wanted a functioning candlestick I would recommend picking up some wood candle cups they have these at Michael's for such a great deal that that's the hole on the bottom but I want a countersink it I have a countersink bit around here somewhere but in a pinch you can just use a bigger drill bit and just put it right on top of that hole it's not as pretty of a countersink but I don't get the job done there we go that's a better one if you put it on reverse that's what it looks like that might be a good idea and get it poking out at the other side and I start it by hand a little bit [Music] hey that should be on there good I just glue my decorative wood base upside down on top of my candle sticks using gorilla wood glue and allow them fully to dry then I wanted to make them not look like pressure treated lumber and give him an aged look so I took some antiquing glaze and I kind of dry brushed it on and then I took a wet paper towel and kind of wiped it down a little bit to wipe off some and smooth out some of the rough edges I repeated this exact same process with white chalk paint over the top [Music] the finished result totally looked aged and have this really cool patina on them and if I ever decide to use them as an actual candlestick I might switch out those tops with the candle cups but all in all I spent a total of six dollars on all three candlesticks and that's not too bad considering the Magnolia ones are over $20 a piece so if I'm going to be doing a knock off of a Magnolia home cake stand and I'm actually going to make two of them so we can do a tiered effect and I'm gonna make it two different ways and you'll see why in a minute because I wanted to give you two options I thought it might be fun to see if I could recreate those same look on a tight budget for those of you who may not be able to splurge on a Magnolia home decor piece so I popped on over to their website and I found these really adorable cakes and I decided to knock off this one because I really liked the scalloped edge I like them the middle versus the wood and I thought it would be a really fun project to see if I could get the look for less and I think that we can so we're going to do this two ways if you look at the edge detailing on the original piece it's actually made I believe from plywood because you can actually see kind of the layering effect on the edge of the cake stand by me doing it this way the larger one I think it's going to actually end up being a little bit more authentic to the original if you have some plywood laying around this will be the less expensive option so I had some scrap wood left over from building my bench and this is one of the pieces and I'm actually gonna use up pretty much every last drop of my plywood over the course of the next couple of tutorials I'm actually going to cut two and you'll see why as I measured and found some bowls in my house so look around you might find the right thing and that will help you get a perfect circle so we're gonna go out and cut this out with our jigsaw but I'm going to work slowly and then if we have any rough spots I'm gonna just sand those down that is for somebody who has a jigsaw maybe has some plywood sitting around get their hands on something for those of you who don't and are a little intimidated by using a jigsaw I have not forgotten you and we're going to use a pre-cut round so each of them has their kind of pros and cons and I'll go over that as we go now let's go cut out our circle our circle turned out pretty good there are a couple of like rough spots so now I'm going to take my electric sander and sand it all down nice and smooth and then also do a good standing on the top so I've got my two circles cut out and sanded down this one is my top one and so I was a little bit more particular with this one it looks pretty darn good in my opinion and then I cut out a second circle this is about a half inch smaller than this one we are going to be gluing this to the top one and then we are going to be doing that scalloped edge detail I thought that that would make the scalloped edge detail so much easier to apply on this one and so that's why we have two circles this is the underside of the top piece and we're going to put both rough sides together we're going to attach this to the top so first of all we're going to put on our trusty e6000 and this is really good we're gonna use this again so keep it close by and then just for some immediate stick we're gonna put on some hot glue then we are going to flip this over and we are going to just make sure that it is centered this is a candlestick that I got at Michaels we're gonna find Center on this trace it so we know where it goes and then we're gonna do the same thing with the e6000 I thought about using nails and stuff but I think we're gonna be okay with this [Music] some hot glue for immediate stick flip it over and squeeze it down and put it right where it's supposed to be all right that actually surprised how good that sticks so now we have a cake stand which I'm actually pretty excited about it looks a really good we need like really adorable kind of metal scalloped edging so this is my very affordable and hopefully it's gonna work out I have a good feeling about it I picked up some tongue depressors you can get these at the dollar tree you can get them pretty much at any craft store we are going to make the scalloped edge out of popsicle sticks I'm actually really quite excited about this so I've decided to apply these first and then paint them after and we are going to measure one inch and make a mark and what's cool about these tongue depressors is you can take a cheap pair of scissors and just cut them instead of having to use a saw you can use a saw and so then you can see there will be our scallop and that will look really cute I'm going to do a whole bunch a total of 48 but I'm going to cut 24 of these so we've got a pile of tongue depressors cut out for scalloped edge I'm gonna use a little bit of e6000 and a little bit of hot glue to a watch them we're going to make sure we do this smooth aside out and just a little bit at the top and then a little dab of hot glue for some instant stick right underneath that lip and hold it down and then we're going to just go all the way around alright so I finished applying my scalloped edge and overall I'm really happy with it I'm going to set it aside for a second and let it set up a little bit longer but then I'm going to take some spackling and I'm just going to kind of fill in the gaps a little bit and then we'll sand it down and paint the scalloped edge but I don't want to mess with it while it's still kind of freshly drawing so I'm going to set that aside and we are going to do the smaller version we are going to start out with this 8 inch round that I picked up from Michaels I got it 50% off it was $3 same with these candlesticks that I'm using they were 50% off being $3 apiece and so similarly to this one we are going to find the center and then attach to this but then we are going to do the scalloped edge on this one I'm worried that because this is on an angle that they will kind of cave inward like that so we we're going to have to do something to keep them upright again it's going to be just the same process as before of hot glue and a 6,000 yep I think what I'm going to have to do I am gonna have to definitely do something here to keep it the way we want it I was afraid of this so yeah we're gonna have to do this all the way around just because otherwise our scalloped edge will cave in [Music] I am covered head-to-toe in glue so the hard part is done and we've got our scalloped edge on you could leave it alone leave it just like this and paint it up and stain it and call it a day I want mine to be a little bit more smooth so I'm gonna actually take some joint compound since we're painting it if we were staining it you'd want to use wood filler but I'm just gonna use some of this spackling and then we're gonna let this dry you don't have to do this step I just I'm doing it because I want it to be as close to the original as possible well let it set till it's completely dry and then I'm going to sand it down I am so thrilled with how these are turning out so far they are so cute but I do have to tell you I think the easier way to do this believe it or not is to cut the two rounds because trying to brace this so that it wouldn't cave in on an angle it was very tedious work so having the other circle behind it I just think that that's the better way to go and it's also the cheaper one but we learn as we go and if you don't again if you don't have the jigs on you've got time it's gonna have a very similar end result so I think that that will be good now it's time to give the scalloped edge that metallic bronze finish that was on the inspirational and I'm gonna be using craft smart onyx in the premium metallic acrylic paint and this was like a dollar 79 not on sale I'm just going to brush this on and again if you wanted to tape this all off and use spray paint you could but I'm just going to go ahead and paint the scalloped edge just being very careful our scalloped edges dried and honestly I think if I were to redo this I would probably go ahead and use a spray paint I think it would go a little bit faster and also give like a little bit smoother of I finish but I'm okay with this and we're gonna go with it anyways unless I change my mind well see so for right now though we need to amp up the farmhouse rustic on this wooden cake stand because it by Magnolia home what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this same Kona color gel stain that I've used for the past several tutorials I still have a ton of it laughs so we're going to do this very dry so I'm going to get some on my brush and then I'm going to wipe a lot of it off because if you compare it to their cakes and they just gone in and kind of just dry brushed very subtly and so that's all we're going to do here is keep it really subtle so I'm done giving the rustic vibe to the tear trays I've done antiquing them I'm really happy with how they turned out I'm gonna let it set a second before we put our polyurethane on so I want to protect the finish and so I'm going to be using this premium spray enamel this is not gonna be food safe but I don't feel bad because the original wasn't food safe either just put something down underneath it just some sort of separation between your food and this and we can use this for decor display we can use it for cupcakes and cakes [Music] my Magnolia home cupcake stands and cake stand is done and overall I'm very happy with it I'm going to be using this all the time I think I've got the finish of it pretty close to that of the original so actually the bigger one we came in a little bit less expensive I'm gonna call this one $5 and this one is more like $8 verses 28 and 40 respectively on their size Oh so we we did really good on budget I might actually make the little bit bigger version so I could do the three-tier tray so I've got a really fun printable that I'm gonna share with you in just a second but I've got a few options of how to set this up in the first place so I kind of need to explain so the first option is option number one go find a 2 by 6 cutoff you can hit up like a construction site a lot of times there are cut off pieces that they throw in the dumpster I'd always suggest just asking before you take it but if it's in the dumpster you can almost assume that they're getting rid of it you're gonna just keep it the regular width that it is and then cut it down to somewhere between 8 and 1/2 and 9 inches basically the width of a piece of paper may be a little bit more and you'll get to see that in a second and then all you're gonna do is just paint the whole thing out front and back white I'm gonna be using my white chalk paint now I'm gonna go cut this down on my miter saw and that's a tutorial for another episode I do lots of tutorials on how to use a miter saw so you'll have to check out some of those but if you don't have a miter saw you could definitely get away with just using a miter box that are pretty inexpensive to get I'll put a link for one on Amazon below and that will work for the other option that I'm going to show you here which is this was one of my fun favorite finds and I actually featured this on another trash to treasure episode and all it is is it's kind of a packing material I found this on an aisle in Home Depot and it was going to be discarded so I asked really nicely if I could just have a few of these and take them home go in and say it's packing material kind of explain it you can see that there's like a little groove in it right if you ask really nicely I think they probably say okay cuz I think they just tossed these now this is a piece of scrap wood I have a lot of scrap still from my DIY shelf build for this shelf behind me and it's really awesome because this is like 3/4 inches wide and it fits inside this little slot so perfectly so I'm going to cut this down to fit our printable but then we're going to just paint this top portion in a white chalk paint and get it prepared and then we are going to take the bottom portion and we are going to paint this out in black chalk paint ok so now here's our awesome printable isn't this so cute I love it you can print this out on your own computer but for some reason I get such a more saturated image and a more beautiful image by running down to staple so I printed this out at Staples it costs me about 59 cents on their self-service color printer and my husband's being silly over here and trying to distract me anyways I know these methods don't work for you you can't be shrink this down just a little bit print it out and put it in a 5 by 7 frame and call it a day and that would look cute too now I've got a few different methods of how to go about this and you're just gonna need to pick the method that's gonna work best for you so I just decided to put them both on the same eight-and-a-half by 11 printable to kind of simplify it so you can see that this top one reads normally and all you're going to do with this top portion is cut it off and then you're just going to put some Mod Podge on the front of the block and place your paper on top of that using a rubber scraper or even a credit card to smooth it out this is a little technique that I learned from a good friend Lisa Birmingham over on her channel then after that is try you're going to put on a second layer of Mod Podge over the top of the paper and your paper will bubble up but do not worry because once it dries these bubbles should disappear once it's fully dry then you're going to want to sand off the edges to give it that rustic feel and at the time make it look like it's painted on the wood and not just a Mod Podge piece of paper this really helps to disguise that fact the bottom one you'll notice is a reverse image it's all backwards it's going to be kind of similar to the pottery burn pumpkin patch sign that I did several months ago I'll put the link for that in the description box as well because it's kind of a really cool project you are going to take some liquitex and do a moderate layer of this medium you can pick this up at michaels or i'll provide a link in the description box below I've had this on hand and used it for several projects and it really doesn't take very much at all then you're going to carefully want to place your reversed printable facedown on the liquitex without wiggling it too much so you're gonna want to get it all nice and lined up before dropping it facedown then you're gonna want to smooth it out with your hands making sure that there is very good contact then you're just gonna let this completely dry for a few hours once you're sure that it is dry get a soft washcloth and a bowl of water and you will carefully and gently remove the paper by getting it wet this part can be a little messy so I would recommend putting a plastic bag or something underneath to protect your table [Music] once you've got the paper removed the image should be on there in the proper direction and once this fully dries then you can scuff up those edges as well as the black painted base and give it that antique look that we are going for then you should be able to just take the sign portion and place it right into that ledge Center base all right so we have our two versions of the little lemonade sign and both of them come in well under one dollar to have the print printed out at Staples was fifty nine cents in color you could do it at home if you wanted and all of my wood was scrap wood and then I use paint supplies that I already had on hand now this one is the image transfer technique and it definitely has like more of a rustic vibe to it and then this one is our mod podge version which is actually really good I think if you're careful about mod podge ink you can get a really good look I like both versions for different reasons so I'm just curious which version would you do would you do the image transfer technique or the mod podge version and also which base would you do would you do just like the thick block of wood or do you like this ledge sitting one as well so let me know in the comments section I am on my way to the store to pick up a few things for our DIY I've seen a couple of episodes out there kind of a similar idea but they're using items from like the Dollar Tree like stacking rolling pins on their sides and I applaud the ingenuity I think it's great and awesome but I just picture my kids just destroying that within like the first 30 seconds so today we're gonna be building one that will hold up to kids and stand the test of time hopefully that's the idea all right so it's a whole 57 degrees oh so I'm here in Florida I know you there's a lot of you probably going Oh cry me a river but that's actually kind of cold for Florida but we are starting out in the garden center I'm hoping to find a pot or something that we could use as the base of the lamp so we're gonna see what we can find maybe it's inside I hope it's inside that's warmer at the bottom of lamp posts there's usually like a nice decorative thing at the bottom so I'm thinking about getting a pot and just cutting a hole and sliding it on as a little decorative element so I think this will be perfect I'm here in the outdoor decking area and they've got several options here they've got a big spindle that I'm considering and then they also have some little spindles here that I might consider those are a little cheaper and I'm just really debating with the lantern that I have since it's a little bit smaller I might do this two spindles together or I might do the big bulky one all right so we're back from our field trip and I've got my hot glasses on and that's because we're gonna be cutting here on my saw I ended up deciding on going with the big one it was only like 1350 and it was just so much more substantial and more sturdy and I just thought it would work better overall and 1350 is a great price if you got this in the indoor one it would be about fifty to eighty dollars of course this is an outdoor one so the the finish is much rougher so we may want to sand it down a little bit depends on if you're okay with the rustic look or not I decided I want to screw a piece of wood into the top part and for that to be flat so we're just going to go ahead and flip this up onto my miter saw and take the fail part off so make sure you wear safety glasses and take extra precautions we can cut this off it's not a big deal we've got this so let's lay this up and here we go [Music] that was such a perfect cut that I can definitely use this somewhere else for something so I'm going to hang on to that but this is a nice flat flush cut and it's going to be perfect so now what we're going to do with this post is I have some end cut offs from a dowel that I used for another project so I have these for free but you can go to any craft store or even Walmart and pick up Adele this is a 5/8 inch dowel and it's going to be less than a buck so they're really really inexpensive and what I'm going to do is I'm going to drill a hole into the sides of my post and we will just use some gorilla wood glue and glue these into the sides and that is going to be perfect for hanging stockings or touching a wreath or other decor so these are going to be very functional as well as decorative we want our dowels to be on the same spot on either side so I'm just going to measure down three inches and then we're gonna find Center which on this is 1 and 3/4 inch now I've got a wood boring drill bit you can see here and this just drills out really nicely for a dowel so that's what we're going to be using and I'm gonna protect my eyes because I think a lot of dust might be flying and then we are going to drill super easy you can handle this I promise you and then we're just gonna do it on the other side and there you have your hole for your dough and now it's a good time to give the whole thing a good just sand down [Music] all right so it's not perfect but it's a lot less rough I just ran my electric sander over it if you really wanted to do a good job then you would want to take like a hand sanding sponge but this is good enough for me I'm not being super picky on it okay so before we put our dowels in we are going to build a base for it just so it's more sturdy I mean this is pretty sturdy but you can easily knock that over and the way we're gonna solve that is we're gonna attach this to the bottom and this is just a piece of scrap wood left over from my bench that I built and in the past I told you how to get some free scraps ask a friend check construction site dumpsters and then also you can find free scrap wood on Facebook so you don't need to spend any money on this part so this is just for my scrap pile and then I picked up this you'll remember from our shopping trip and what we're gonna do is I'm going to just kind of cut a rough circle it's not gonna be a perfect circle because it's out of scraps and that's what's going to fit but what we're going to do is we're going to set that on top of it and then we'll cut a hole for this post to set into this is not going to be offering any kind of stability it's just more purely decorative [Music] this is shaping out great I'm so excited about this I'm gonna put in four screws just for good measure I couldn't get this to squeeze out so all we're gonna do is we're gonna cheat the system here a little bit and we're just gonna dunk it in the glue and shove that in hopefully it will go in be nice and snug though like that's the idea we'll just clean up any wood glue that's dripping so now it's almost time to paint it but before we do so I was looking at this and I felt like these edges were a little unfinished so I went searching around my house and we'll see what I got in my pocket alright so here's what I came up with because I didn't want to spend any money on finials I went rummaging through some old games and I came up with a couple of chess pieces and I think this is like a mini I don't know checker or something so what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to use this mini checker piece and that will finish that up and then we'll put the little chess piece on the end and that will kind of serve as a little finial and I think it's gonna work out just great and I didn't have to spend any money on it so feel free to do that when you need it like a little something extra go rummaging around your house you'd be surprised what you come up with so what we're going to do is I'm gonna use some e6000 it's my go-to adhesive it's a very strong stuff and then we're also going to put on a little bit of this hot glue as well just because it will give us some instant stick [Music] just a quick reminder that we still have that secret project coming up at the end of this episode so make sure you hold on for that when I originally planned this project I had a lantern that I was going to use and it was this one and it's really cute right after I got the larger base I put this on top and it looked like a tiny little head on a big body it's a really cute Lantern and I think it would have worked really well if I'd have gone with a skinnier spindle but since I went with a bigger one I decided I needed a bigger Lantern so I went over to Michael's and got this right here and that looks much better right so much better so I've pre-drilled a hole we are going to line everything up I think this turned out fantastic and we did it for under 40 bucks even with getting the new lantern it was still under $40 which is a still for something this big that we can use year-round [Music] well I hope you're enjoying this episode so far I wanted to take a quick break and tell you a little bit about antiques channel company they make the most amazing smelling candles you'll ever smell and they're made right here in the United States they have such an amazing selection of candles and this month they sent me warm caramel crumble and I wish to risk ratchet snap TV because this smells so good if you want like the yummiest smelling bakery inspired candle of this one is it they also have a Christmas set that has four different sentiment sugar cookie frankincense and myrrh gingerbread and cranberry and they all smell so good so if you're interested in learning more about antique candle company and their offerings I'll put a link in the description box below so let's get back to those DIYs okay so for my project I am creating a welcome sign form just left of my entry door and it's gonna say welcome to our home and you've probably seen these on Pinterest I've seen them in craft stores and things like that and what we're going to do is we are going to paint it on a piece of wood this is a totally free project for me because I had all of this stuff on hand but if you were to recreate this like you could probably get the job done for less than ten dollars so it's really affordable project and it is just a two by twelve piece of lumber he doesn't have to be two inches deep you could do a one-inch board as well but this is just what I had so the reason why I stained it was because I'm plan on distressing it a little bit around the edges and I wanted it to have kind of like a dark finish showing through so now what we're gonna do is I have some oops paints that I picked up from Home Depot I believe and it was discounted and I've just had it around and we're gonna just paint it right on and so we'll just paint this all white so I'm probably just going to do one coat because it can be a little weathered in distress so there's no need to get a really good two coats on there now we're going to move on to another portion of that and we will be with spelling out welcome to our home and home will be in really big block letters like you saw and the O is gonna be a wreath I actually had this leftover from my Easter table project because I had kind of gone back and forth whether I wanted to use the small size or the big size I ended up going with the big size so this is leftover from that I just never returned it and so I had it on hand now after Christmas and after a lot of holidays I always go to the stores and check out the clearance bins for greenery for florals and things that I can use in future projects so I picked these branches up for 90% off making them forty-nine cents per branch and what we're gonna do is we are gonna cut these apart and then I have a whole pile of them all ready to go and we are just going to glue them on and then we're going to kind of go in the same motion so all of the greenery kind of goes around and stick it in so what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to take and lay out your sign the way you want it I can see where the wreath plays into it and we'll we'll set the wreath aside for now we're going to take some of this graphite paper put it underneath we'll just start with the welcome and then we're gonna take a pin or you could take another pencil and you're gonna trace this the idea is that it will transfer onto the wood underneath pick out whatever font speaks to you I just kind of liked it had a little sass to it alright so let me show you what we got here so as you can see this method works all really really well all right because I'm already going to be painting the letters flat to make it a little easier on myself I've decided to trace all the outside edges with a black sharpie and I just feel like this will make things a little smoother and easier to paint now it's time to paint taking the time to use the sharpie will make this part really a lot easier so my sign is totally dry I'm happy with how it turned out and this part always makes me a little nervous so I've got it all painted nice and now we're gonna make it look old it and rough it up with some sandpaper let me know if you're the same way in the comments with me let me know if you like distress stuff so we're gonna do is I've got a little piece of sandpaper here you want to go with the grain of the wood and then just kind of lightly spandex and we don't want to we don't want to make it like too overly distressed but enough that it has a little bit of love alright I survived the sanding and I'm actually happy that I did it it looks really a lot better just so now I want to add a few finishing touches I'm going to actually take some of this twine and wrap it around the top and then we're gonna take a nail and hammer it in to hold the wreath on so now it's time to place our welcome home sign it was so much fun to make this I'll put in the description box below the link to the printable that I used to trace this with if you have a vinyl cutter that will make your job a little bit easier but for those of us who don't just print it out and trace it and you can have a sign that looks like this too so our Joanna Gaines inspired DIY if she is really known for her bakery sign it's in her bakery near the silos she has it up there on their brick wall but she's also used them in her fixer-upper show and that's the one that we're going to do today just because I felt like it would be a really easy project for anybody to do I had this piece of scrap wood it's measures 12 by 36 and I had this on hand free free to me because it was leftover from some else you could go into home-improvement store and a lot of people will leave their cut-offs that they don't want for their projects and you can find a thin little piece of wood like this prior to painting we're going to take our 3/4 inch square dowel and measure them for a frame I just do a blunt edge cut and you can get away with making this cut by just using a Dollar Tree hacksaw for this simple cut then we're just going to paint the main piece and a white chalk paint and the frame I decided to do in a black chalk paint for a higher contrast look I attach my frame by using an electric staple gun with Brad nails from the backside so you don't see any nail holes now we're ready to make our stencil we are gonna be making a stencil out of removable vinyl I bought this huge roll of cricket vinyl it's white because it doesn't really matter because we're just using it as a stencil and when you buy it in bulk it's a better deal that way I've had a lot of people tell me that they are intimidated by these Cricut machines but really they are not that difficult to use once you go in and start playing with it you'll feel a little bit more comfortable and before you know it you will be a pro at it we're gonna go into Cricut design studio and type out the word bakery now I used the font Arial black then you can split all the letters and then we can put one underneath one another and then there's this really cool thing if you highlight all of them you can kick click align so it aligns them top to bottom and then you can also align it from left to right so everything is nice and aligned due to the size of our stencil we need to split up bakery in half to create two stencils you do this by creating a rectangle and placing it behind the bak and then you duplicate it and place another one behind the ER why making sure to align the two rectangles then you're going to want to make sure each rectangle is attached to the Associated letters then you're going to want to highlight both stencils and adjust to the appropriate size and then we hit make it cut out your removable vinyl to the size you need and place it onto a standard mat smoothing it out then as before we load our mat into the machine by hitting the arrow buttons and then we hit the C button for a cut or a Cricut then once it's done cutting we unload it from our machine and we take our hook and we weed out what we don't want then we take our transfer tape and smoothly apply it over the top and then we can peel back our stencil and it's ready to go then we're going to lay our stencil down onto our finished board making sure it's smooth and then we peel back our transfer tape leaving our removable vinyl on the wood piece and then we're going to go ahead and paint the white chalk paint over the edge of the stencil let that dry and then what we're going to do is go back on top with our black chalk paint and fill in the stencil now when that is fully dry then you can just peel back your stencil and reveal your bakery sign which i think is a really cool thing if you want to do it with a vinyl you could do either way just whatever your preference is I just wanted to show you the option of doing a stencil now in keeping with Joanna Gaines Flair I roughed up the sign with a little sandpaper now I haven't decided exactly where I'm gonna hang this yet but we'll probably go somewhere in my kitchen obviously well I decided to do a black frame on mine I think it's a pretty close replica and I only spent less than five dollars for my version probably the only change I would make is to make the letters a bit wider if I were to redo this so you may want to keep that in mind for your project alright so for my next trash to treasure I have some empty bottles now my family really likes Indian food and this is like a simmer sauce that we use for dinner I like the shape of them because they're kind of square but they are round up top and I thought that that would make for some interesting decor sometimes so I've been hanging on to these my original plan for these bottles was to spray-paint them black and then white chalk paint and then sand them down a little bit but I didn't end up having enough white chalk paint so after I spray painted them black I ended up just using some white gloss spray paint that I picked up at Walmart for 97 cents and already had on hand making the black spray paint really unnecessary for what I ended up doing in the end once the spray paint was dry I brought them in and took some black chalk paint and decided to give it kind of an enamelware look I achieved this by taking a sponge brush and just randomly placing black around at the rim and the bottom of the jar perfection is not what we're going for here we want it to look like it's been chipped and down to the iron then we do a couple of chippy spots in random locations on the bottle trying to be a little different from each of the other four bottles and then finally we are gonna go into Cricut design studio and we're just gonna write the word home it will be one letter per jar and then of course we weed it and put transfer tape on it and cut out each individual letter and apply one letter to each bottle [Music] to style it I use some boxwood that I already had on hand from Walmart in the jars but you could style it however you like not including the box with these jars came in including paint and final around a dollar 50 for all for not too bad for my project today I am going to be knocking off a designer item this time it's from Ballard Designs I found a beautiful chandelier that was five hundred and twenty nine dollars and I really loved it but I wanted to see if I can do it for a lot less I'm gonna be hearing some really interesting items I think you might even actually question my sanity a little bit when I pull out some of the items but that's what you got to do is you got to get creative you got to think outside of the box but I promise you that they're gonna work and it's gonna be a lot of fun I'm going to show you three interesting things that I'm using the first is I'm going to be using some cookie sheets from the Dollar Tree I think they're going to really work for a part of our project and then I'm using three of these a six foot dog it's high out cable so like a dog chain from the Dollar Tree again and then finally and this is a little bit odd I am using eight tuna cans like empty tuna cans so we've had a lot of tuna sandwiches recent weeks okay so we're going to start by building the frame of the chandelier first and I picked up three of these 36 inch long one and a half by one and a half inch poplar pieces of lumber from Home Depot we are going to keep two of them the original link and then we are going to take the third one and cut it directly in half we're going to just go ahead and mark that and make that cut so a couple quick safety tips normally I have some clear protective eyewear for my saw I couldn't find them so we're gonna make do with my sunglasses but that's just to prevent any sawdust from getting in your eyes in between each use I always unplug it because I have little people around and I just don't want them accidentally you know turning it on like that and hurting themselves even if I'm going to only be away from it for just a second I'm gonna be building the frame for the chandelier I didn't want anything exposed like in the way of nails or anything on the end so what we're going to do is we are going to insert the dowels inside the joint to keep it all nice and put together we're going to take the one of the long ones and we were going to take a nail and put it in about the center tap it into place make sure it's nice and level and then you take some wire Clippers you clip off the head of the nail so then it's kind of sharp and then we're going to line it up on this table and then we take our hammer and tap it into place and what that's going to do is make a mark where your starting hole should be and then we can just take this now and pull it out so now you've got a starting point for each joint drill nice and straight and then we do the same thing to this so roughly this is going to work we're probably going to need to do a little sanding around the joints but that's okay before we glue this together and finalize it then you're just gonna add some what glue in the holes and if I can little bit gets through that's okay because then it will help strengthen that joint for a much tighter joint I highly recommend using a clamp so I've let my frame dry overnight so I'm gonna take off the clamp now and then what we're going to do is we're going to sand the frame because we want a nice smooth surface using a sander makes it so much faster [Music] so I decided to move the party inside because I didn't know how the humidity and heat would work with the stain I'm doing it in our guest bathroom because this is an area that is not getting used right now and then I can also turn on the fans for circulation and all of that I'm gonna put on some gloves to protect my fancy manicure that I still don't have no I'm just doing this because it's gonna get messy and I don't want to have a stain all over my hands and then I've got a cast off sock that it's partner probably got eaten by it my dryer like so many socks do just kind of dump my hand in the stain and I'm just using a gel stain because I thought it would work a little bit better and give us a nice thick coat and that is going on very dark which is kind of good because that's kind of what I wanted the next step in the process is creating the iron strapping that was on the wood frame and you're gonna need protective gloves for this step because you're gonna be exposed to some sharp edges and it's really important to protect your hands so you don't get cuts they're not very expensive at all I'm definitely worth it then you're gonna take your tin snips and cut off the lip of the cookie sheet leaving just the bottom part then you're gonna take that part and cut two and a half inch strips then you are ready to spray paint which we will just spray paint all of the tuna cans anything that's gonna be metal we're going to use the left over spray paint for my project last week and spray everything a nice flat iron looking black so I've let everything dry for several hours and hopefully it is all dry enough to do my next step we're gonna start with the iron the iron and the pretend iron strapping that was made from cookie sheets and we've sprayed it in that outdoor flashing that black is I'm going to start on the inside so the rough side is right underneath the tuna can tuna can oh my goodness and so we're gonna just fold it around and get it on there and it should just bend really nicely and then we're gonna put a little pressure and pull it up and bend it all the way around and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a little mark here and then I'm gonna grab my tin snips that I left in the side so I'm gonna go grab those and I'm gonna take this off so we are gonna trim it to fit to kind of keep everything in place I'm going to take my tuna can and I've kind of punched a little hole in this set this on top so I'm gonna drill pilot so that is set then I'm gonna switch my tip to a traditional tip I'm just using drywall screws I had them on hand you could probably use whatever you want and then we are gonna do this right into place look at that so that is on there good that will help take iron strap to stay in place good and we'll do that all the way along so you can see right here have a little bit of an issue and I did know that this was going to happen and what it is is it's just where this seam is meeting up and I've got some you know II 6,000 on there but it doesn't want to stay down because it wants to bend out so my solution for this and it's also kind of an aesthetic thing as well on the original there's some nail heads and I just am going to I took these thumbtacks and I sprayed them the same color so I press those in and not only does that hold it into place but it adds kind of an aesthetic as well so and anywhere that I'm scratching on this iron work I'm planning on going back in and touching it up [Music] next I drill pilot holes into the wooden round in a square shape for the hooks that will hold the chain supports then I place another thumbtack in the center for an added decorative touch two and a half by three quarters we're gonna pre-drill the screws for the hooks where we're gonna attach our tables alright so I'm getting ready to hang my light fixture and I had my husband come out earlier and help me mark where we were gonna need to put it because it was kind of a two-person job because we had to kind of Center in between the two light fixtures you can see and apparently she did not want me to miss where he marked so I need to determine whether or not there's a stud up there so I'm going to use a stud finder that would be most ideal because obviously that would be the most secure if not I do have a toggle that I can put into the drywall which would support up to 50 pounds worth of weight which should be more than plenty because my light fixture is nowhere near that so let's go see if there's a stud there's a stud in my house see if there's a stud up there no stud alright so we're gonna be using the toggle so I wanted to show you before I hung it that I attached the cables to the hooks right here and over here and so on all corners and then I connected it right there as well [Music] - my project is done it's Han I am so thrilled so it turned out I feel like it's a really good dupe and a really good knockoff of the faller design my version came in at around $60 there is a way to do it for about half the cost and that would include switching out the candles for some from the Dollar Tree this is a Dollar Tree version and this is my version now the reason I went with these candles is because the Dollar Tree one you would have to manually turn on each and every time you use it you have to get up and and switch that out my version you actually can turn on with a remote and off with a remote so it's really cool there are a little bit beefier I'm really glad I spent the extra money but if you're looking for a little bit more budget-friendly solution switch out for the Dollar Tree candles today's do I went over to Pottery Barn and on the Mother's Day list there was a monogrammed lazy susan tray that was kind of a like a wine barrel top really fun not only would that be really fun to have but that would make a really good Duke I knew from the get-go the monogram would be probably the biggest hurdle to overcome I knew that no matter what I did I would probably have to make the monogram darker and then the original and that was okay because I could still get definitely the essence of it but I realized like it what a challenge that would be and I did a lot of homework for you guys to say he's some some trouble so I have this little sample piece of wood just to show you give you an idea of all the little different ways I wanted to give you guys but the easiest method with the best result that was like something really user-friendly that you could do without a lot of headache and hassle this is actually my first attempt my first idea was wood burning they're gonna need to practice a little bit better to get a really awesome result so I'm not keep working on that one and maybe even give a nicer wood burner I tried so many different methods but the method that I came up with and the method that I'm going to recommend to you is awesome I'm so excited I really think that it's going to have a great result so what it entails oh I'm gonna link the funniest tutorial it was hilarious that I watched on this technique it was like this guy I don't even remember what isn't so the first thing you need to do is design your monogram I went to camp ax and created it I think it's Times New Roman font it's like the identical font that in Pottery Barn uses and I got it about the size that I want then what you need to do is reverse the image so when it prints out it prints out reversed of what you need the trick here is you need to get shipping labels or some kind of Avery paper labels I'll put all of the supplies that I use in the description below so you know where to get it you pull off all of the stickers and all of that so all you're left with is the wax paper itself there's people who do the wax paper technique from me I found it it was too flimsy and when I fed it through the printer it just kind of ate it up so that did not work for me and I would not recommend that the next step is if you have a laser printer at home you can do this at home I went to Staples and I gave them my paper are so nice my local staples here were so nice and so helpful and you get an image that looks like that so I'm going to cut mine down smaller I want it to run kind of with the green and I'm taking into consideration that there are handles on the side okay so this looks to be pretty centered and what I'm going to do real quick is I'm going to just kind of hold this down and make a couple just very subtle pencil marks that I'm going to go back in an erase later you probably can't see that on camera but I can kind of see where the pencil markings are and that will just give me an idea of where to place that the medium that I'm going to be using now the medium I'm going to be using is liquitex matte gel medium you've seen me use Mod Podge and some of my other tutorials I'm a big fan of Mod Podge Mod Podge has an image transfer product I did not like it at least for this application it would make the paper stick really bad and I just I just wasn't it found the best result I've gotten I did a lot of research on it was this liquitex product I got mine off of Amazon such a good product I love it and that's what we're going to be using I got kind of a I think it's like a one-inch craft brush you want it to be in good condition you don't want it to be beat-up so we're gonna take our medium we're gonna be kind of generous with it at first we're gonna get it into the area that we've marked here and I actually kind of go both directions just so it gets really worked into the wood this is too much we can't leave it like this so now we're going to go with the grain of the wood and kind of remove some of this so we're left with a nice smooth base for early monogram I set that aside and then we're gonna take our monogram and you don't want to wiggle this around too much you want to kind of set it down and then once it's down rub it in not too hard but with enough pressure that it sticks and then ask this dries we're gonna want to come and check back to make sure there's no wrinkling or anything and if so kind of smooth out out we're gonna let that sit for about two hours so set the tray aside while the image transfer dries and sets up and I think I forgot to mention where I got the tray I got the tray at Hobby Lobby it was 40% off for $24 it was beautiful it was big it was sturdy the color of the wood was beautiful and I knew that that would be a really good match for our project so the original was actually a lazy susan and I won't get to that part later I know that that's a tree but we are making it into a lazy susan now I needed to solve the problem of the middle edge bending so I went into my local Home Depot I brought my picture with me I kind of went searching for some kind of metal strapping I thought I would find something there that would work and I was right I found several things that I thought would work there was a section of just metal strapping that was very similar but then when I showed it to a certain Home Depot worker he's like I know the pricing for that and he's like our pallets come attached in galvanized steel that was very similar to that he's like I cut that off every day and I'll just give you some for free I was like sweet so this is free you can buy some metal strapping if you'd like or go into your local Home Depot kind of tell them what this is tell me thinking it off with the pellets and see if they'll give it to you for free now the only problem is when he told me about I didn't realize that it was gonna have all these kinks in it so what I have decided to do because there's just no way to flatten those keeps out so what I am doing is there a little bit longer sections that are maybe like six to eight inches and I am just going to take some tin snips and cut very carefully and try to do it as straight as possible with my senses and I'm just gonna cut these little sections out and we'll just side by side all the way around the tray and I think it will look just fine and it will definitely serve our needs so we're going to need about eight of these middle pieces to go around my tray because I'm leaving the handles exposed if you wanted to cover those up then you would need about ten so we can leave them as is they're kind of cool the way they are but to be true to duping it as close as possible I didn't do a little glaze over the top of mine and all I've done is taken some leftover black pants that I had for my friend or you could use craft paint or whatever you have on hand and I watered it down because I'm just gonna do a light glaze over it you don't need that much but we're really gonna just wipe it on just the one side that's going to be exposed and then take a paper towel and dab it off you can leave a little bit of the paint to kind of just give it an aged patina but it's just as simple as that okay so our metal is dried and so is our monogram so I am ready to pull this back and rebuild the monogram and cross your fingers and hope that everything went well and that it looks now everybody hold your breath right now [Music] all right the moment of truth hopefully we made crafts daddy proof I'm gonna pull it up very slowly I've got this upside down I'm gonna rotate this so weaken so far so good very slowly I think we did it I haven't DIY wood polish that I'm doing over on my IG TV channel that works with this that I'm going to be using on this and I'll put that over the entire thing so it should smooth it out and have a nice even finish on the entire tray so my original plan was to screw these metal edge banding on but the metal is too thick it's too dense and it's just not gonna work so new plan we're gonna line it up in the middle and I am gonna just glue it down with some e6000 and take some little clamps that I got from the dollar store to kind of hold it in place and it will be fine I am so excited and stoked about how this is going so far it's been 24 hours our edge banding has dried with the e6000 and even though we didn't end up using the first technique I thought that's the way DIY goes is you have to think outside the box you have to be able to problem-solve we have a few of those seams butted up against each other and honestly it's probably fine to leave it like that but I thought it would look a little bit more finished if we took a thumbtack which I just had in my house some thumbtacks and put a little bit of that water down black just to also give it kind of that aged patina and we're just gonna push them in in between the seams honestly if you wanted to stop the project right here and call it good you could just have a serving tray but we aren't doing the lazy susan version over a pottery Barn's so we're gonna turn ours into a lazy susan how I'm going to do that is I ordered a lazy susan of Amazon we are going to attach this to the bottom and we're just gonna screw it on I've got some so this part was like six bucks six or eight bucks I don't remember and I've got four half-inch screws and we're just gonna attach this with okay we did it okay so we know how a lazy susan these edges are kind of sharp and we don't want it to scratch up our wood surfaces if we were ever to put it on a wood table or something else that could scratch so I just cut out a black piece of felt and we're going to just hot glue that down and then you've got protection for our wood table [Music] I think this is a pretty good - I don't know what do you think let me know in the comments if you think this is a good do so for my last DIY I'm so excited about it last month we did the Declaration of Independence with the translucent flag okay I can't wait to reveal this to you before I show this to you I have another kind of exciting announcement so hang with me okay gonna good I'm gonna quit delaying here it is I am so excited about it isn't this so cute I just had so much fun designing this printable for you sweet lemon firm fresh squeezed so cute I really think that this is striking and packs a punch and I'm putting the link for this free printable in the description box below click on it and follow the instructions it's not too hard then I take this to Staples I love staples they are always good to me they're plus I just like their quality of print there what you do is you email this digital copy to staples at print me calm and you can print this out at Walmart you can go to a Costco and print it out there Costco I think is the cheapest is I think that's $6.99 it's a little bit more at Staples but I really like the color saturation and the paper that they put it on it's kind of like a regular paper but a little bit heavier weight and I love the kind of that matte sheen on this so that's this printable but I find being asked to open the you know an se shop for a while and I designed a whole set to match this now the lemon one is going to be free like I mentioned but I've designed blueberry I've designed an orange and strawberry which so cute here we go strawberry I love that isn't that cute and then of course a peach that's very summery as well and a raspberry so there's a whole set of these these ones we're actually just put in a dollar tree frame so and look how cute they look I've also designed these with different stripe colors to be flexible for people's decor I really like this kind of mint green blue color that's on there but I've also done it in a grey and a green and another so that's all on my Etsy shop so check that out if you're interested in having like the whole set and I'll put a link for it in the description box below or you can just stick with them one spring one that I'm offering you this is always a good DIY because it's so easy to put together because all we do is we to take out our frame back and we put it in our frame and we call it a day and so easy depending on where you have this printed out it will run you about seven to twelve dollars if you do in the 8 by 10 size you could easily get this done for a little over a dollar fifty making this a very affordable summer DIY but for me personally I like this for a year-round well I hope you enjoyed this episode if so here's another one that I think alike as well and until next time to all of my DIY niners bye

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