My latest DIY project
I fell in love with this mirror I found on Pinterest and my DIY brain took over. I didn't need a mirror so I made a headboard instead. I made it out of MDF, plastic bowls, water putty, and molding. The middle piece is made of two Dogone doors that I repurposed from the previous DIY headboard.
This was my inspiration photo.
And this is my headboard.
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last yearlast modified: last yearThe most time consuming part of the project was altering the bowls. I purchased 48 of these bowls from Target, They were a little smaller than I would have liked but they were the right shape and at .50/bowl they were the right price. Then I took about a foot of the foam tubing that you put around window ac units and coiled it around and taped it to the bottom of each bowl. Then I spackled the bottom to make a sphere shape. The foam was just to fill space. After that was dry I sanded and painted each bowl with 3 different colors of paint and tested each one against the Dogone doors to make sure it would pass. LOL
I laid my molding out on the MDF, and slathered water putty on top so that it would have a texture similar to wood. Then I painted it with those same 3 colors, attached the bowls with adhesive caulk, and that was it. It was a very easy project.
I made it in 5 pieces.
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Eta
I reread this again. The brown circles on top are circles of paint that I have not yet brushed out
_____________________________________Are you talking about these 5 bowls?
I didn't want the bowls to be flat on the bottom. I wanted them to be sphere shaped. So,I used this, and shaped it into a coil and taped it to the bottom of the bowl with painters tape, which is the blue you see underneath, to help form a sphere. Then I used this and frosted it like you would a cake to make the spere. What you see in the photo is what the bowls look like after it has hardened and has been sanded. Next, I began the painting process. The first step in my process was to use burnt sienna paint, which you see on top of the bowl. After that, I added black to the bottom and dark purple to the middle. Then I sort of blended them all together on the top. I repeated the process for all 48 bowls.Some of the bowls in the photo have dark paint at the bottom. They were likely my experiment bowls when I was trying to figure out what technique I was going to use. before I settled on this one.
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last yearI posted there also years ago. When HGTV was around I posted a little sofa that I painted for my kid's room. That was my first painted furniture project.
Here is the chair I am thinking of painting cobalt blue.
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last yearShrimp cocktail container chandelier with shower curtain rings ala Magnaverde. This is amazing creativity!
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