PINTEREST TO REALITY EASY HOME DECOR DIYS!

[Music] Hello everybody. Welcome back to my channel. Drew here from Lone Fox and apologies for my hands first of all if they look crazy in this video. I have been doing a lot of projects lately. I have stain, paint, dye, glue, scrapes too, just mixed together and they just look crazy at the moment. So, and I'm such a hand talker. But besides the point, today we are doing a Pinterest to reality DIY video, which I used to do these in the past on my channel and you all loved them where I would essentially find some DIYs on Pinterest or ones that I have come across that I've seen kind of just circulating more viral projects or ones that I also just really want to DIY and see if it's a project that's actually DIYable and achievable. But I actually want to use the mirror in my bedroom. I have a project I'm working on right now that I want to use the frames for as well. So, I needed something just to spice up these frames cuz I have some more simplistic artwork going inside of them. But the last project, I'm going to keep that one a surprise. So, stick around until the end. I have to save the best one for last. And before jumping into the first project, I wanted to share with you that we're having a start of summer sale only for you here on YouTube. So, only YouTube subscribers. Only you Lone Fox family members here on YouTube have access to this code. And it's going to be throughout summer. So, if you want to use it, I just wanted to give it to you guys so you had it to use. Everything's vintage, sourced by myself. And it's also a lot of really like unique one-of-a-kind finds from around the world. Use code summer LF, which I'll put on the screen right here. It gets you 20% off your entire order. And also, orders over 99 ship for free. So, it's just all around a really nice little perk. So, yeah, if you're in the market, you want some decor, you want something unique and vintage, take a peek. But let's go ahead and dive on into our DIYs because we do love DIY, affordable decor that we can make for a lot more affordable than some of the items I sell. Because I'm not going to lie, some of them are quite pricey, but they have age. Do they have provenance? They have history to them, you know, like there's a reason we are diying today. So, let's dive into our first project. The first project we're working on is actually one that I saw in the background of a product photo or a product, I guess, image. It's from a brand called Claude Home, and I've actually seen their stuff before. It's incredible. I think they are European-based brand, and it's actually for this coffee table, which is also stunning, like a tile coffee table. However, in the background, I saw this mirror and I just fell in love with it. like I could not stop thinking about it. I found the mirror on their website. It's called the Jura mirror. I'll put a screenshot up. It is $2,200. It is such a statement piece. However, it does take 10 to 12 weeks to get it. The designer of this is a um Design Studio, so I do not want to discredit them. And theirs is going to definitely look a little different from mine. I think theirs is also going to be quite a bit more high quality than mine. I love the design and shape of this mirror so much. Especially how it's a floor mirror and how it kind of has like the leg detail as well. So, let's go ahead and dive on into this project. The supplies are actually really minimal. All you're going to need is two boards. These are 8 foot long. They're 1x4s and I got them in red oak. And then I also got a mirror from Ross. This was just $30. It was a floor mirror. I'm going to be actually using the mirror on the inside. So, I took the frame off of the mirror. And then there's this cardboard backing on the back side of the mirror that I actually just use in place of the mirror as kind of like a template. And I want to cut down my 8ft boards to 74 in. That's the height that I want my mirror to be in the end. So I'm cutting those down with a miter saw. And I'm doing that to both sides of the mirror. And then we're going to be using those little pieces that we cut off for the top and bottom section. So don't discard those. I'm actually going to be cutting one of them down to 14 in, which is going to be the width of my mirror. And then I'm going to be cutting one down just a little wider than that for the top panel. So it's simply just four pieces of wood to construct the frame of this. And this is how it's looking. Now, I cut the corner of the cardboard off to create a little template for our zigzag design, but you could be more particular if you want to. This was just quick and easy, so I opted for that. And I'm going to start at the top left and use my pencil to trace these going down. And in between each triangle, I'm going to leave about a/4 in of space. And that's going to allow for the blade width when you're cutting because the blade is going to eat up some of the wood. So, you're just going to want to make sure to leave that space. And then I actually stopped mine right when I reached the bottom kind of crossbar, the bottom crossbar of the mirror. And the easiest way to cut these out is to first start with your cuts all in the same direction. So I'm just following the line and cutting all in the same exact diagonal direction. And then I'm going to go back in the opposite direction and cut the other line, which is essentially going to notch out all of our triangle shapes. And I forgot to mention, you're going to want to make sure that your triangle shapes are not too deep because you do want this to be still structurally sound. So, you don't want it to be too deep to where the side panels aren't going to hold up the mirror. So, here we have both of our side sections notched out, and it's looking so good. This literally only took like 30 minutes of time. And I also notched out the top section as well. A fourack of these corner braces is only $2 at the hardware store. So, I picked that up. And I screwed these together with the corner braces, which was definitely sturdy enough. This is not a heavy mirror whatsoever. And I go through with a hand sander just to give a nice little clean finish onto some of those edges and make sure that there's no splinters or rough edges before we go into our staining process. I use this Midwax wood stain in the color honey. And this is a semi-transparent wood stain. It looks really great over the top of red oak. And I sadly didn't get that great of clips of me staining this, but I just applied a single coat over the top, wiped off the extra. It was super easy. You're going to let that stain dry down before applying in your mirror. And this is how the mirror was looking on the backside once I pulled the actual frame off that was on it from Ross. And I just attached the mirror using a few of these little mirror brackets. These are for pictures or for like hanging artwork or mirrors. I just popped a few of those on the backside. I used eight of them. And this is how the mirror ended up looking. You can just lean it against the wall. And I love it. It looks so so good. Our [Music] second project is one that I have seen kind of popping up all the time on my Pinterest page and it's probably because I spend a lot of time like looking at the photos of them and they are painted frames and mats. I actually did a frame DIY where I covered the frame and mat and fabric which I love that. It adds texture. It adds instant pattern. So, if you don't want to like paint it yourself, then that one might be for you. But this one I had a blast with. I actually love how these frames turned out so much. And I screenshotted a few different examples of some of my favorites. I'll pop them up. I love these. You can customize them to the space you're working on. And it's an easy way to add instant pattern and kind of like this little folky artistic feel to a room or a piece of art. So, let me share with you how we make these. I ordered some super inexpensive frames on Amazon for this project because I knew I was going to be painting them and covering them up. So, I will link these below if you want to get the same ones I did, but I popped out the mat and the frame because we're going to want to bring these outside to spray paint them. Now, you can totally paint them by hand if you want to with like household paint or wall paint, but since I had spray paint on hand, I just figured I would do a base coat of spray paint for both of my frames, and I opted for a high gloss red for the smaller one. And then for the larger frame, I used this matte coffee bean color, which is like a dark espresso tone. I did two to three coats on each of them, letting them dry in between to give a nice good finish. And this is going to basically be the starting point of our painting process. So the next part is really fun because you can be totally experimental, artistic, crazy with this. You can use tape if you want to to have cleaner lines, but I just wanted to go in and kind of do something a little bit funky and different. And I love the organic look of these stripes here. So, I opted for a cream tone and I went in with a paintbrush and I just started to create a couple of lines. I'm a huge fan of stripes and checks and just harsh lines in general. So, I knew I wanted something very graphic and bold for my frame. And I actually have a perfect little artwork that I want to put in here. So, I started to create these stripes all the way around the edge, working my way around. And I just used the width of the paintbrush to create these. It's kind of this nice flat round paintbrush, which allows me to easily just kind of apply a layer of paint. And I did go through to apply two coats to each of these sections. And they dry down really, really quick. If you notice it's super streaky on your first coat, do not worry at all. The second coat is totally going to go in and clean it up. And I also transferred that design over to the edge as well, along with the inner rim of the frame, too. So once I had that all good and coated, I let that dry down and I worked on the mat. And I used a fine brush just to kind of create these middle lines across the mat. And they just crossed in all four corners. But I'm actually going to be creating kind of a checkerboard pattern on here. So I ended up creating some more lines to create the squares that are going to be part of the checkerboard. So transferred this all the way around the exterior. And then I just went in and preliminary kind of dotted where all of those are going to be filled in just to ensure I had enough squares and it wasn't going to when I reached the end not meet up because that can definitely happen with checkerboard. Also wanted to make sure that I was painting each of them and I didn't blindly just start painting a square I wasn't supposed to in the process. So, I went around painted all my little checkerboards, and this was so therapeutic and fun, you guys. I loved it so much. I was just listening to music. It was such a great time. It probably took me like an hour and a half to do both of these frames. But for the chocolate one, I actually wanted to do something a little bit more playful. I actually think I'm going to change the artwork I put in here to a sketch. And I did these orange stars. And I basically just created the stars freehand, how you would traditionally draw like a five-point star. And I filled them in. The first coat dried down and then the second coat really made that color come to life. So, I added on a second coat of the orange onto these stars. Let it fully cure. Added the art in. And in these final clips, I did style them together, but these are totally going to be styled separately. I think they're so fun and they create such an impact for the size of them. [Music] The last project is one that I actually scrolled across. It is this column right here. And it was just a photo on Pinterest. I was like, "What the heck? I love this steel column. It'd be so cool mixed with like some of the vintage accents that I use in my project or like a vintage piece of pottery on top just mixed with the very harsh contrast of like the very clean steel look." And I was thinking like maybe we could DIY something like this, but of course out of a steel contact paper. If you remember when I did Amina's living room and kitchen makeover, I used that stainless steel contact paper on her kitchen cabinets and it looked so good. So, I had some extra and I figured why not see if I can construct like some form of pedestal base out of wood and then just cover it with the contact paper and create something very similar because when I did screenshot this, it's a piece sold on the obelist, which I love their website. They have so many unique, stunning pieces. And I'll also link this original one as well. It's just a steel column. I think a bunch of different websites actually sell this, but theirs was $1,250. So, I definitely want to see if we can create something more affordable. When I'm filming this intro, I actually have yet to finish this one. So, fingers crossed it turns out good. Let's get started. I wanted to find the cheapest base wood that I could for the underside of this column since it won't be shown. So, I got two of these 2ft x4 ft blonde wood pieces, which were $20 each. And I'm going to cut them in half at 12 in wide. And then I'm also going to cut them to a specific height as well. I'm going to cut them to 35 1/2 in high. And that is just because it's going to allow you to use that off cut to be the top section of your pedestal. So you don't need a whole another piece of wood. So essentially in the end your pedestal is going to be 12 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in by 35 1/2 in. And I'm using a circular saw to follow the tape line that I created and just cut first the height that I want the pedestal to be. And then I'm going to go through and cut these in half so that we have four total pieces because remember we stacked them together. That's just so you have the most even cuts in the end. And then I'm also going to mark this singular piece of wood, which is our off cut, just to 12 and a half inches. So we have a squared off piece for the top. Now to screw this together, I'm actually going to be using 1 and 1/2 in long wood screws. And I'm just going to sink them into the wood a little bit. Meaning I'm going to over kind of drill them or screw them in and let them sink into the wood a bit. That way we can go in with a little bit of wood filler. And I'm just constructing this in a cube like fashion if you could imagine. and like just making sure that as I'm working around in the square, it creates a nice square like this. So, this is kind of what the framework was looking like. And the last step for the framework was adding on the top piece, which I screwed that on. And I went in with just an electric sander that I had on hand just to sand down any of those rough edges and make sure that all of our edges really met up because that's the key for this column is to really have clean clean edges. So, I did go through as well, and I forgot to film it, but I did add some wood filler on all of those screw holes and also on all the seam lines, and I sanded it down just to ensure a super smooth like solid base because we want to add this stunning stainless steel contact paper right over top. And any imperfection on the wood or any imperfection that is basically underneath the contact paper is going to be visible when you press it down. And of course, I will link this below for you guys. It is actually super super affordable on Amazon. So, I definitely suggest getting a roll. And I just used a simple box cutter to cut this. It is so so smooth and easy to cut, especially when you have nice clean edges on your wood cut. You just follow them and add each piece. I didn't even really align them up. I did with the first one. And then with the second one and every other piece, I just kind of overlaid it, meaning that like I added more than I needed on every side. Just kind of let each edge overflow. And then I just cut it down to the size of the wood. And it was so easy. I was kind of a little scared about cutting the edges where the two pieces of paper was connecting up. However, it looks perfect. Like you can't even see the seam there at all. It's like directly on the corner line. So, I wrapped all four of the side pieces to start using the box cutter to just trim away any extra and making it nice and flush. [Music] I cut a piece that was large enough for the top just so I could go in and pop it right on the top and stick it down on all of our edges. I just folded them and creased them before going in with a box cutter and cutting away all of the excess. And you can see just how clean of a line you get. And this is how the column turned out. I mean, oh my gosh, it looks so good. [Music] And that friends was today's video. I hope that you enjoyed this one and these three DIY projects that I shared with you. And do not forget to subscribe to the channel for new home decor and DIY content every single week. I have some fun makeovers coming up. And I also would love to know what videos you guys would like to see more of on the channel. I've just been traveling so much at the start of this year. It has been a crazy time for Lone Fox, which has been so exciting. And I'm happy to say that I don't have any travel booked for like the near future, which is kind of nice because I can stick around. I could work on some more larger projects and then also have more time to edit and share everything with you guys. So, let me know in the comments section below what kind of videos you would like to see over the next couple of months during summer. And also, not forget to take advantage of that coupon code over on lonefox.com if you are looking for any accents for your home, a piece of furniture, some artwork, art prints. We have so much stuff. Just take a browse and use code summer LF for 20% off. Thank you guys for watching and I will catch you all in my next one. Bye. [Music]