Handy-woman K here and I'm about to try my luck at a few around the home projects. Problem is, my family (mostly my dad) has been laughing his ass off at my ideas.
- I am going to repaint our old stereo stand so that it matches all of our newer and darker living room furniture. I have bought the paint and materials and will be starting today. If it goes well, I may even do our bedroom dressers.
- I am going to build a padded/upholstered headboard for our bed. They are bloody expensive to buy and they would appear to be very easy to build. Problem is, how to make legs. All of the instructions I can find on the web are for mounting it to the wall. We aren't 100% we can mount it to the wall because we think we have concrete walls and we don't know if we have the tools necessary to make this possible.
- I want to take our current dresser mirror to a glass cutter so that it is a rectangle instead of the weird old fashion curvy thing it is now and then re-frame the now rectangle, clean-lined mirror. This project, I'll admit, is the one that seems the most difficult. I can get the glass cut but I don't know how to frame it. I suppose I could get the glass cut to fit in one of those cheap big Ikea frames... Maybe I need to think this one out... I want to keep everything relatively cheap as otherwise why not just buy new.... I just really want to see if these home decorating shows are right and that you can do amazing things with what you already have if you are a bit handy, creative and savvy.
- Paint Neil's old and ugly metal desk.
I think all of these things will look soooooo much better if and when I get to them. But up first, the stereo stand -- this project will determine whether I am handy or not.
Here is the before picture... it is being painted dark brown to match the rest of our living room furniture.
yay! I do stuff like this all of the time. Some with success, some not. If I may give you some advice.....that stereo stand needs to be sanded. When I was first informed about the merits of sanding I scoffed at the idea. I thought it was WAY too much work. Until I learned the hard way. Sanding actually works. Re. the headboard. If you go to a Home Depot or something they may have 'legs' you could attach. I'm thinking the legs in a stair rail or something? You would be surprised what you can find if you look around.My major concern for you is tools. I completely believe that you can get the mirror cut down and re-frame it, but my understanding of framing something is that it involves some type of special saw. I only know this because when we put a baseboard type frame around our basement window we had to borrow a large saw. I'm so excited for you! Renovating is fun!
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