DIY IKEA HACKS - Minimal Home Decor + Furniture Hacks for 2020

Hey guys, what is up? Welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox. I am really, really excited for today's video. I just got finished making the thumbnail and I was like, today's Ikea hacks is such a good video. If you guys have not been following my channel or you're brand new to my channel, whatever it might be, hello, I'm Drew. I post brand new home decor and DIY content every single week, so you can click that subscribe button below, turn on the bell icon so you get notified when I upload new videos, but I have like a reoccurring video I do on my channel, which is Ikea hacks. I love shopping at Ikea, but I find a lot of their pieces to be very, very simple, very basic, and sometimes I want my pieces to be a little bit more elevated, a little bit more personalized and fun. Oh my gosh, I also completely forgot to mention, guys, I got my eyebrows microbladed. Can you see, can you tell, like, can you see these hair strokes? These are all fake. Sorry, I have literal spray paint on my fingers. These are all fake hair, real hair, fake hair. My eyebrows before, I'm gonna put in, like, the TikTok video right here that I filmed of the process. You can follow me on TikTok at lonefoxhome. Sorry for jumping off, like, track really quickly, but if you were curious why my eyebrows maybe look different, are more arched, are more just, like, filled in slash look dark, that's because they're in the healing process right now, but I am obsessed with them. Like, I have filled in my eyebrows every day of my life since high school because I have, I had such bad eyebrows before. I'll insert a before and after as well so you guys can take a look at it, but I cannot believe that I can now wake up and just, like, have a good eyebrow. Like, that is crazy to me. Okay, enough rambling. I just wanted to let you guys know, in case you were curious, let's get into today's video. I wanted to kick this video off with a bang, so we are starting with a larger scale project. I'm using two of these ICBE VOLTR little wall mounts and also this TORSLEV, I hope I pronounced that right, rug, and the other supplies I'm going to be using are a hot glue gun, wooden dowel, black spray paint, and some painter's tape. So I'm taking this rug, and I believe this is a three foot by five foot rug, and I'm going to be taking the top portion and I'm actually going to be folding it over on itself and then hot gluing down just the edge. We're basically creating, like, a little pocket hole, that way we can stick the wooden dowel through. So just use a strong bond glue, hot glue worked great, and then I'm using some paper towel and painter's tape to create a diagonal stripe across this rug, and this is going to be on the bottom section of the rug. Basically, I am masking off the top portion, and we're going to be spraying this with some black spray paint. I actually had to reposition it one time, uh, just to get it in the correct position that I wanted it in, and then once you have that, I brought it outside, and I used this two times Rust-Oleum black spray paint that I used in my thrift flip video, and I'm just going to be spraying the entire bottom portion of this rug. Now, since this is going to be a wall hanging, I don't really mind that it's going to be, like, Of course, you wouldn't want to probably use this on your actual floor, but since it's a wall hanging, I figured it would just be totally fine to spray the bottom portion of this, and the great thing is that you can totally spray this with any color you like and really have, like, a coordinating wall tapestry, and I absolutely love the way this looks when it is hung up, so I gave it a good coating. I had to go over it multiple times just because it was kind of splotchy, and then this is I was worried, but look at this. Uh, so that is what the bottom half of the rug looks like, and all you have to do to finish this off is just slip the dowel through the top portion, and then you're going to mount the two wall brackets, and I just love how this is hung as opposed to a traditional tapestry, and this ended up costing about $36, which I think is great because it's pretty large scale. I told you guys that this video is filled with a ton of projects I love, and this one is probably one of my favorite decor items I've actually created, so just go back if you want to look at those supplies because we're going to jump right in. I'm starting off with these Lindron Day objects, which I've used these before on my channel, and they are just, like, round circular decor pieces, and I'm also using some air dry clay, and what I'm going to be doing with this clay is basically just molding it around the actual hoop portion of this, like, decorative object, and I'm going to be creating it into sort of a new, more organic, kind of steel-looking object, a very CB2 restoration hardware vibe. I absolutely love pieces like this, but they typically cost anywhere from, like, $50 to $150 for just, like, one decorative object, but they're actually made of real metal. Of course, we're not doing that today, so I'm using a little bit of water, and I'm just rubbing what I have already done. This literally looks sexual. I'm very sorry about that, but, you know, you just got to do what you got to do, so I'm taking the water and just smoothing out the clay because, basically, we're just wanting to break down, like, the top layer of clay and make it just very, very smooth and clean, and you can really kind of, like, mold it and mend it to the shape you want, and I'm actually repeating the process on the larger one. Now, these circles at Ikea were actually on sale when I got them. I don't know why. I don't know if they're going out of stock, so definitely check your Ikea. The larger one, I made a little bit more organic with thicker clay sections, and the right side, as you can see, that's smoothed, and the left side is not, so that's kind of, like, showing you why I like to smooth them out, and then once they are dry, I went in with some of this Obsidian Stone Texture Spray Paint and gave it a quick little spray just to give it a little bit more texture than it already had, and I sprayed the base as well because I knew I wanted to lastly go in and give a full coat of this Matte Farmhouse Black Spray Paint to match my decor in my home, and I gave a two coats of this total, and it just turned out absolutely incredible. I really, really love the outcome of You know I had to create a super affordable project as well, so these are the overall, I think they're pot holders made of cork, and I'm also going to be using some assorted paints, macrame rope, and scissors, so the supplies are super minimal, and these are the three items that you get, and I was like, these are really great shapes to actually create a wall hanging with, so I grabbed a couple of paints in, like, a peach color, a more pinky peach color, and then a tan color, and I'm going to be basically painting all three of these circles, so I'm doing two full coats, and when I tell you guys this was so satisfying to paint, something about how smooth this cork was and how it, like, soaked in the paint was just so nice, I loved it, so I ended up painting the medium-sized one, like, a tan color, the largest one was more of a darker, like, salmon-y pink, and then the smallest one here is, like, a more lighter, kind of, like, coral-y, salmon-y pink, I wanted to do three shades that were very similar, but still different at the same time, which you're going to be able to see in the end clips, so I ended up doing a total of two coats on all three of these objects, and of course, you could not forget about the back, so I went in and just gave just one quick coat to the back side, since it wasn't going to be shown anyways, I just wanted to make sure that it looked decent, of course, from all angles, and these are my three tones, so next what I'm doing is grabbing some cord, I will link this below for you guys, and I'm cutting out two just random, probably, like, foot-long sections, and I'm going to be looping it around and then pulling through my strands through the largest loop, and then I'm going to also be doing the same thing on the medium-sized loop, so we're going to have both of these like this, and then the smallest loop is actually going to be the center point, so I'm pulling both of the rope sections down through, and you're going to see exactly what I'm doing to connect these, I wanted a very clean finish, so I'm flipping it over, I'm putting hot glue on the back side, and basically just gluing these down to the actual back side of the smallest loop, and repeating the same process on the other side, that way when you flip it over, there's no knots or anything, but it's going to look super, super smooth, and then it's also going to be level at the same time, so this basically finishes it off, but of course, I needed to add a little loop to the top portion, so I'm adding on some macrame cord in a loop, tying a knot at the top, cutting off the excess strands, and that finishes off this wall decor item, which I actually was able to create for just eight bucks. I always have to do like a little furniture item, so I'm starting off with two of these Dalskar wooden frames, and I'm also using what I think is a new tray to Ikea, it's like a restored wood-looking tray, very West Elm, but for only $25, and the additional supplies are these L brackets and little miniature screws, and I'm also going to be using a drill and a pen, so these are L brackets, they're just from Lowe's, it's a couple bucks for a pack of eight, and what I'm doing is I'm opening up the frame and pulling out everything on the inside of the frame, you're not going to need any of those pieces at all, and then what I'm doing is laying down my four L brackets on one of the ends of the frame, it's going to be the shorter end, and I'm going to be drilling what are known as pilot holes. I learned this from my lovely friend Rachel, who is a woodworker here on YouTube, I don't know how to work the wood, but you know, I can try sometimes, so I'm using, that sounded awful honestly, I'm using this drill bit that's really small, and just basically creating starting holes for these miniature screws, it just makes it so that the wood doesn't split, and it just gives the screw an easier area to kind of drive into the wood, and I'm also doing the same exact thing on the underside of the tray, this is on the right side I believe, and I'm going to be repeating the process on the left side as well, because we're going to be using these picture frames as the legs to this sort of like geometric table, I think it just turned out really cool in the end, and the woods looked amazing together, and I used some pliers to pull out the little black pieces that are kind of like to hold in the actual picture, and then once you are done, you have your miniature little rustic wood side table for $39. Okay guys, so those are my Ikea hacks for you today, I hope that you enjoyed this one, and I hope it gave you some insight, or some tips, or tricks, next time you're shopping at Ikea, maybe you could pick up some of these items, then maybe rework them a little bit, whatever you want to do, and remember that everything's always personalizable, so like for example, like the hanging decor piece, which I have right up there, you could definitely change the colors of that, whatever you want to do to it, you could change the wood color on the tray, and like the leg, and yeah, let me know in the comment section below which one was your favorite project, which one you might want to be trying out, and also give this video a thumbs up if you did enjoy, lastly before jumping out, I'm just going to plug my merch one more time, because why not, it is my video, I'm going to plug my merch, so my merch is so so cute, this is the visual interest tote bag, comes in a t-shirt, there's some hoodies, there's some fun stuff, link below, you can check it out if you would like to, get it before Christmas time, and I will catch you all in my next video, have an amazing rest of your day, bye guys!