Borrowed room with 4 small hacks
Materials:
for a wardrobe: Elga wardrobe, wallpaper, matt Mod Podge
for Billy bedside storage: Billy library doors Olsbo, wallpaper, Liksidig, JANSJÖ
For Ribba hanger: Ribba picture ledge Grundtal bar, GRUNDTAL brackets
For lampshade: Fansta lampshade, wallpaper, glue PVA
description: There are really four small projects in my bedroom borrowed, none of them particularly difficult and all spotted elsewhere (hence the "borrowed" the title!).
First, and probably most dramatic is the Elga metamorphosis. Our master bedroom is very small and we needed storage space for clothing as well as we could squeeze in - the Elga was the best fit. However, we could not agree on the color and finish - I wanted as much light as possible into the room so was tilted a white carcass and 3 mirror doors. Husband on the other hand had no interest in seeing reflected constantly and none of us liked the ANEBODA doors. So in the end the Engan doors with black frame and door mirror was our only compromise possible. As I suspected, it overshadowed our small room but as we were not few have. 2 baby, I did not feel to do anything about it for a while. Then, during the navigation Ikeahackers one day, I came across this post and was inspired!
I find the wallpaper Homebase was a color style and perfect match for our walls and room ... and it just happened to be in their range of value at just under £ 5 a roll.
I cleaned Engan doors thoroughly to get rid of dust and grease. Then, using a Stanley knife, I cut 7 sections of wallpaper to meet the 6 panel cardboard 2 doors Engan over a trial period (leaving them slightly smaller than all sections of wallpaper when wet) . Then I Mod Podge-ed the back of the wallpaper with a sponge applicator and let stand for several minutes, then did a test applying the paper to the underside of one of the shelves of the cabinet. Good job I did as I made a complete mess of it! First time I've done anything with wallpaper and I could not smooth out bubbles. If you plan to do a look on the Internet for advice I do not think I'm quite an expert yet! For what it's worth, I used a dry paint roller equipped mini applicator sponge like my smoothing tool and it worked for me. I also found that the smaller bubbles disappeared by the time the paper was dried and fortunately, all six panels are now completely without bubbles.
Next big projects in the plan Borrowed House were a lampshade, a Billy gently vamped-up as a bedside table and library / Grundtal Ribba storage solution for half-worn clothes.
next job in our Borrowed room replaced the bedside units Engan low and dark that we had bought to match our wardrobe Elga with white shelves Billy, very few actual piracy here. These are the 40 wide, 202 high Billys.
I left the reverse - first for aesthetic effect to show our color through paint the shelves and secondly because the only point in this part of the power part is behind Billy My side of the bed This way, I can access whenever I need to. Leaving the reverse undermines stability much so we have attached to the wall with the supplied brackets and, if we find that it is still not strong enough in a week or two, we'll add in parenthesis below the fixed shelf environment too.
I put Olsbo solid half-doors on the bottom and a mini-Olsbo glass door on top, inside which I recorded the same screen as the Elga decoupaged to create a theme and hide content.
We found the shelf 'bedside table is too high and difficult to reach the bed, as our son's iPhone charger are too short to properly reach from the feed point so that I screwed in a towel holder Liksidig at the bedside of each Billy (thanks to this post for inspiration). I jumped a drop cable next to each to keep the charger cables when not in use and now I have my iPad and phone next to me, he and his Kindle phone.
Perfect.
last shot was to replace our old touch table lamps with clamping lamps JANSJÖ we were worried that the touch lamps were a fire hazard that the plateau above them is very hot. The JANSJÖ lights are great as they are beautiful bright spots for reading, but may be inclined differently to create mood lighting. Getting rid of top-table lights means there is more usable space now too.
The Borrowed Chamber of history continues with a clothes storage and image 2-in-1 combination cunning rail. Our room was not quite big enough to be a chair or a towel horse, the two classic solutions clothing issue in limbo between cabinet and laundry-basket. Everybody has this problem, so I am amazed how some decent solutions there, especially for those with little space to spare. Again, the Internet came to my rescue and this provided the perfect solution.
The only area in our room is one meter wide between the insert in the fireplace and the window. I cut the ends off a Ribba longer with a hacksaw (slow but no power-tools in this house!) - Ensuring keep the pre-drilled holes centered. Then husband screwed into a 80cm rail Grundtal to the underside of Ribba, drilled holes in the wall, screw the Ribba the wall hung a few hooks on GRUNDTAL rail and that's all!
lot cleaner and it takes a surprising amount of clothing.
The last, least and hacked the smallest project in the Borrowed House.
I got a little rest after decoupage wallpaper-ing our Elga wardrobe and felt, quite frankly, a little decoupage-happy and generally happy with myself. I was eyeing opportunities around the house when I came across this.
The crude Fansta lampshade in our room was the perfect candidate for a makeover and correspond to my beautiful new wardrobe - the Fansta longer available, but Jara looks pretty similar. I used watered down PVA (I would run on Mod Podge) but I do not recommend it, I found a clumsy mess and paper work just would not sit right. Stretching paper wet was impossible to assess and work inside something with rounded sides is a pain. It looks good, but does not withstand scrutiny really! If ever I do I will again be using something like Pritt stick or just tap on one side of the paper in the shade and then curve around the inside and tape down the other side.
Regarding the measure and cut wallpaper, I just cut a rectangle of the roll which was a bit bigger than the shadow from top to bottom, then slowly rolled the shadow of one side of the paper to the other and drew a pencil line above and below as I drove. No pictures of what I am afraid I was too involved to remember to take all! Then I cut along the pencil lines and wrapped around the outside of the shadows, trimming and try inside the shadow that I went to the perfectly fit the inside. If it helps, left the flat final paper is banana-shaped.
A couple of annoying things:
1 - you want the pattern to face courses, but the wallpaper has been rolled how "bad" it takes a little flattening and against lamination and many constant patience to be conducted within the shade without folds.
2 - as previously mentioned paper stretches when wet so that the actual measurements are almost impossible to get right. My shadow has finished some small air bubbles and the paper does not take place on the edges all around is good in daylight, but the pattern is visible through the shadows when lit, it is not as a professional finish that I want.
But it's so pretty!
~ ioana
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Julius Yap "I'm Jules, the engine behind IKEAHackers and one that keeps this site running. My mission is to capture all wonderful, inspiring, clever hacks and ideas for our beloved IKEA products "
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