10 Thrift Flips & DIYS / High End Style Home Decor on a Budget / EASY Home Decor Thrift Makeovers

Hi everyone, it's Tasha. Welcome or welcome back to my channel. Well thank you so much for joining me. You know that on this channel I do a lot of thrift shopping and I share my finds with you and also how I style them back at our home. And often that includes some sort of DIY or flip on my thrifted items. So last week I shared a room makeover with you and this week I thought it was time to take a step back and round up some DIYs for you. So I'm including 10 here in this compilation video and I'm including chapter titles in this video so if you're a regular you can easily see which ones you might have missed. And of course if you're new here this video is perfect for you. Let's dive right in. I want to share with you is this sweet little vase that I picked up. So it was kind of odd. I've never seen anything quite like it. As you can see it was $4.29. I love the shape of it and when I saw it on the shelf it was turned backwards at first but then on the front it has this little ditty about oats which is kind of cool. Talking about how oats turn into porridge. So I don't know it's just it's just odd. I thought it was kind of cute and again I love the shape with that ridge around the top and the general size of it I thought would be nice for placing next to a larger vessel. So I'm gonna give this one a little makeover and yes I did like research this to make sure it wasn't anything you know special or valuable. I didn't think it was but I just wanted to make sure it's not. So I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna kind of cover up that bit about oats there. I just went in with a color called accessible beige. Something that I had on hand but any sort of color near that will definitely work if you're trying to do something similar to this. And now I'm using some antiquing wax that I also have on hand. This is the color called dark vintage with just a little bit of water combined. This stuff goes a long way so that's actually a lot more than I needed for this small vessel but it's just a tiny little fork full that you see here. I'm mixing it with some water and then I'm just going to go in with some of that watered down antiquing wax right over the top of the vase and just kind of stipple that all over it and get that aged look that I'm going for. I like this antiquing wax because it doesn't have any sort of smell when you use it or anything like that so I think that it's a great way to achieve an aged look on a vessel like this. And then I'm going in also around the bottom and the top lip as well with an extra layer just because that's where, you know, over time dirt would tend to settle more and things show their age a little bit more around the upper edges as well as the bottom. And so that's what I'm doing here and when I'm done I think that this has a really nice look and blends in well with some of my other pottery. So I'm sure someone out there is going to say that I took away the uniqueness of the piece by covering that up and that's okay. I just didn't like it. It didn't mean anything to me so I covered it up and I'm using it here with this single hydrangea stem in our master bedroom on one of the bedside tables and I think that this has a beautiful look for spring now and I think it was worth the $4.50. And now let's switch gears and look at this art piece at Magee and Co called Woven Neutrals. This is a large piece of art that's a 41 by 41 and as you can see it's currently $1,100. Now I do think that it's a really cool and creative piece. It's made of strips of torn canvas that are then woven together in this basket weave style and framed out in a large square. It's tonal but it's textural and I love it but I definitely want to try to make something similar on my own rather than spend that much. So my plan is to use a drop cloth that I already have on hand and cut it into strips to weave together to make my own version of this piece. I also have this pre-framed canvas that I picked up at the thrift store that I'm going to use as my frame for it. It's obviously going to be smaller than the Inspo Magee and Co piece but that's okay because this is sort of a trial run and if I love it I can make something larger. I'm going to be using a hot glue gun to glue strips of cloth onto the edges of my canvas and then work across to weave them together. My plan is to start only gluing one side of the strips and leave the other side free so that I can more easily weave and then once a row is complete glue the other side down. So here I am just cutting out my initial strips and I'm just lining them up to see the general length that I'm going to need. At first I was doing fairly even pieces in width just like the Inspiration piece but then I decided that I would change mine up and do varying widths of cloth strips so that it would add that much more interest and dimension to the piece. So I began to cut some narrower and some wider so that I could stagger the different widths as I weave. When I had what I thought was enough I gathered them up and then I can always go back and cut some more as needed. I began by gluing down the strips all the way across in just one direction but only on one side. I left the other end unglued so that it would be easier at least in my mind to weave across them with the pieces going the opposite direction. Then I started the cross weaving which is just really simply going over and under alternatively and when I reached the end I just trimmed off any excess and again used that hot glue gun to secure the ends down inside the space between the canvas and the frame. I used the edge of my scissors that I had on hand to press the ends down into the gap in between the frame. The process was a little more fiddly at the beginning and since the pieces were so long and unsecured but it got easier and faster as I went along. I would say that by the end this complete piece took me about 45 minutes to weave. The exciting part of this project as a dupe though is that if you like the look of this you can easily make one of these pieces at any size that you want. A large square like the inspiration piece that was 41 by 41, a large rectangle that would look great above the sofa, or a small piece that would be perfect for stacking with other artwork, and one drop cloth would still be all the cloth that you really need to do any of those sizes. All you would need to do is find a thrifted framed piece that is the size that you want and use that as your base. Near the end I discovered that it was easier to kind of go through first and alternatingly lift the pieces that I would be weaving under and then go back and lay my cross piece down and lay those down across it rather than picking each one up one by one and weaving under it. So I wish I had done that a little earlier in the process, but que sera sera. And this is what it looks like when I'm finished with my weaving. I did leave my edges raw and I actually love this little piece. I've styled it here above my chest of drawers in the bedroom and I really appreciate the tonal texture that it brings to this spot. Having that pre-framed piece to do this weaving over made this such a simple DIY to do and now I want to try it on a larger scale piece for a bigger impact. So the next thing that I want to share with you is actually a project that doesn't even require a thrift trip. I want to be making myself a DIY little side table similar to this one with these bobbin style or turned legs. I really love these and I want something different for my front living room so I think that this project is going to be awesome. You can see this little similar stool from Magee & Co and these things can be very pricey when you buy them new. So full credit where credit is due, I got this project idea straight from DIY by Deebs on Instagram. She has an amazing account so go and check that out for many more ideas I'm sure, but I'm going to be following this almost exactly getting these wooden turned legs from Amazon and these when I bought them were only $18 each but they have gone up a few dollars I noticed unfortunately on Amazon. Just keep watching those and also I'm getting myself this little wooden finished circle. I got mine from Michaels and as you can see on the price tag there that was $19 and so since the legs actually come with some of the hardware that you need, those were the only two things that I bought for this project. I'm using a drill, some drill bits, as well as a tape measure and pencil to get started and these are the legs that I purchased and they looked really great in person. So just try and choose a tabletop if you're going to be doing this project. Just look at them closely and make sure that it doesn't have any defects because they are pine, they can get little dings and such in them from just the store. So I tried to choose a particularly nice one from the options that they had. I'm just finding the center by measuring and dividing by two as best I can and then making myself some marks to mark the center lines for this so that I can try and get my legs on straight. And this is some of the hardware that came with the legs that I bought from Amazon. So I'm just marking on the bottom side with a pencil so that my hardware will fit exactly in. Definitely want to pre-drill some holes before you start putting your screws in and that was very simple to do by following the dots that I had just made with the pencil. So first of course you want to screw your hardware into the bottom side of your leg and then you want to turn it over and screw the hardware then into the underside of the tabletop. But it's pretty straightforward. You can see now that I'm just changing out my bit so that I can again pre-drill holes for the hardware in the underside of the tabletop. Just makes it easier even though it's pine and it's pretty soft. Makes it easier to get the screw in straight on the first try when you just take a moment and pre-drill some holes. Just make a hole that is a little bit smaller than your screw. After that it was very easy to screw these and you can place these back as far as you want and actually I do recommend placing it back a little farther than I'm showing right here because you don't want to catch a glimpse of the hardware from the side of your table. And so if I was doing this again I would place them back just a little bit farther for that purpose but this still worked out. I wanted them to be kind of as far out as I could and I did need to get an extra pack of wood screws because there weren't quite enough with the set that I got to both screw the hardware into the leg and into the table. The next thing I'm doing is just giving this a very light sand all over with some 220 grit sandpaper. I use my orbital sander for the top and I'm just using a little spare piece of sandpaper that actually came with the legs for the legs of this table. Wiping off that dust and then I'm ready for my pre-strain treatment. This is just a pre-stain wood conditioner that you can rub on. This just makes the stain that you're going to use go on more evenly and prevents any sort of blotchiness. This was a very easy step to do and this pre-stain conditioner will last me for many projects so it was well worth going ahead and investing in a can of that. It also dries really quickly and so the only thing I needed to do was wait maybe 15 minutes for this to set in, give it a gentle wipe to get any excess off, and then I was ready to stain. Now the wood stain that I went with was the same one from DIY by Deeb's tutorial and it is called Kona and I do love love love this color. That is why I didn't deviate at all because hers was so beautiful. So I'm going in with that Kona color. This is a beautiful dark rich shade and I just like to start with the top in case things drip downward. That prevents anything dripping on an area that you've already done. I'm just using a staining sponge but you can also use a clean lint-free rag for this step as well. And then for the bottom part with those spindled legs it would make it a little bit hard to do with the big sponge and so for that part I just went in with a little foam brush so that I could get into those crevices. After I stained each section of this table I went back and wiped the excess off with a paper towel after about two or three minutes and that's really all there was to this. This was a super easy DIY project. The legs also came with some of these little felt pads which I attached to the bottom for good measure but I'm going to be using this in my front living room. I have these two swivel chairs from Cheetah Living and these are amazing. I love them so much but they are very kind of heavy in shape. They're not leggy and so you can't see under them and I thought that this table which was definitely leggy and had lots of a kind of an airy look about it would be the perfect thing in between these two kind of visually heavier chairs. And I don't think I was wrong because I really love the way that this looks here. I think that it's feminine but kind of just like classic at the same time. I love the dark color so thank you again to DIY by Deeps because this was an awesome project and start to finish I did this in under an hour. Amazing. Something that I always like to look at in the thrift shops are the different pieces of pottery and the different vessels. I'm kind of a sucker for vessels and vases. I try not to accumulate too many of them but they definitely always catch my eye. I don't know about you. These two caught my eye because I just thought they were really charming. They aren't exactly my color but I do think that they're really pretty and they had these marked for just $2.99 each for the large one and the small one which I thought was a pretty good deal that I just wanted to share with you. I found this little vase actually not too little. This is pretty large of a vase with these elephants and I really like the shape of it although the elephants and the red wouldn't fit in my home. The shape of it was really nice and the price was great at just $3.79. As you can see I also saw this little one which I did think was cute as well with the ribbing around the bottom that was marked a little more at $4.99 but I ended up bringing home the larger red one for $3.79 thinking that I would try a DIY on this. What I want to try on this one is a lime wash technique that I saw on someone's website and they were doing it on terracotta pots and so I thought that was a great idea. I gave it a coat of that same spray paint that I showed you earlier and then tried the lime washing but it was so smooth that the lime wash mixture just ran right off so I had to rinse that all off and kind of start over because it was not looking good even after I tried to sand it and then do it. So I'm just starting over on this and going in with some spare paint that I have in a color called Renwick Beige and this is just like regular interior paint. I'm giving it a coat of just regular paint and then I went in with another coat that had some baking soda mixed into it so that it was a little bit more textured. I got this idea from the website my100yearoldhome.com and again she was doing this technique over different terracotta pots which are more porous which explains why her wash just went perfectly onto it the first time but I had to do some painting with some baking soda first on this piece. This is my vase after it has the baking soda and paint mixture on it and I'm just taking some of this lime this is just a bag that I picked up from Lowe's around eight dollars I think just putting some into a plate and adding a little bit of water and then kind of stirring it around with my brush so that I can get ready to brush it onto the vase. You can see that this breaks down pretty quickly and I didn't wait for every single little part of it to disintegrate but I did swirl it around until most of it was good and then when I went through and just started to brush this on the vase this time it did exactly like I was expecting it to do and like I saw in the photos from the website and it just kind of stayed in place so once this dries it's going to give it a beautiful kind of chalky that nice lime wash feel and look and it's acting much better now that I have a more textured base and so just brushing it all the way around you do have to work kind of quickly especially if you're going to be outdoors like I was because it does dry pretty quick and then I just wanted mine to have some drip marks down it so I just kind of did that with some extra from my brush and let that dry as it began to dry it lightened up and so it started out a little darker and then it lightened and got this nice beautiful chalky finish now I wanted to go ahead and finish this off because it's very kind of smudgy lime wash I wanted to be able to use this and put real flowers in it and if I got a drip of water down it I didn't want it to just rinse the the finish right off so I'm just going in with some clear flat spray paint over the top of that so that it can be touched and used and I wouldn't have to worry about it or baby it I want to use this for flowers and not just sit it on a shelf for now though I don't have any fresh flowers on hand so I'm just going to be styling this with these hydrangeas now I had the white version of these that I bought last year from Amazon these are a very real touch realistic hydrangea stem and I really love them so I went back to look at the other colors for this year and it ended up getting a set of the purple and a set of the pink to kind of mix together and I think that they look really beautiful mixed together like that tray on top of that just to finish off this look but I think that for less than four dollars for the vase and then eight dollars for the lime wash which I still have tons of it left over so I could do this technique a lot of other times that was a great deal for this DIY this loan bar stool was in goodwill it was $9.99 honestly I've seen them for less than that before maybe even $5.99 or $6.99 but still I went ahead and picked this up my plan is to really distress and antique this and also cut some of the height off of it and make it a little sort of side table accent stool something like one of these and these can really get pricey I'm sure you already know that but primitive looking wooden stools can really cost a lot if you're buying them online antique or even the ones that are just the faux antique that are new are still quite a bit so I'm using multiple different tools I have done this process before on my rustic skinny bench which you can go and watch but I like to use the back side the claw of a hammer also the front to create some dings some scratches and definitely my wire tool as well so to really round out your distressing I would recommend definitely using one of these wire drill attachment tools these really work to make these deep wood grain marks and so what I like to do is take a chisel and kind of chip off some of any edges like this and then also go in really heavily excuse my band-aided finger with that wire attachment and make these really deep scores all along all of the wood that plus taking off and chipping away at some of the edges begins to make a distressed look and you can do a lot of the distressing with a hammer too but I definitely recommend that wire tool for some of this as well I'm just going back and forth over this with these different tools a lot of times until I really get a very heavy level of antiquing and some people will say with this process to sand it first and then antique it I prefer to do the opposite because the way I see it a lot of the antiquing methods are going to remove some of the stain on their own so why sand more than you have to just do this first and then go back and sand what's left so that's the way I do it anyway so now that I've got the majority of the stool where I think I'm going to cut the legs off sort of done I'm just stopping to figure out what kind of stain I'm going to use and what I tried first was about half and half mixture of a walnut stain mixed with a true black stain and I just kind of wanted to test out on some of the lower parts of the legs there where I'm definitely not going to be keeping that part anyway and see what it looks like I'm going to be using a staining sponge for this project I like how these apply stain and so just testing out this mixture for this one I kind of like how this looks with this really dark stain on it and so I'm thinking I'm going to go with that I also did test out just the walnut even though I kind of already knew what that looked like it's a lot lighter I think both are beautiful but I'm going to go with the darker stain on this one this is what it looks like when I'm just about finished as you can see I did go ahead and chip off a lot of the edges I did that down the legs as well as the outside of the perimeter of the circle there and just so it would be really really deep because once you put the stain on especially a dark stain it's going to kind of hide some of it so I still wanted it to be very distressed I actually find staining pieces like this kind of therapeutic because it's so easy to do and just to go over it and immediately see the change is kind of nice I did have to get some more on my sponge and go more deeply and press into some of the divots that I made but it's not too hard definitely want to do this outside where there's plenty of fresh air though now the nice thing about this project is I thought that if you like this project you should be able to do this because I see bar stools all the time look on Facebook marketplace as well and this is what mine looked like once I was done I cut down the legs to about the height that I wanted for it to sit right here beside the sofa and I think that this has a charming primitive look to it kind of like the one shown here I'm really happy with it curry in the background here he's chilling and I did pick up this wooden shelf and at the bottom it has this towel bar I thought that it was pretty cute and I've been looking for one of these for our upstairs bathroom so the thing that caught my eye about this one was the fact that it had a towel bar built in which you don't always see and then this kind of crisscross pattern across the back they did have $30 on it which is more than I wanted to pay so as I was just kind of deliberating that I did notice that there was one of these spindles missing right here and then actually another one right here and so that made me think well maybe I'll just ask about it because I doubt that they noticed that when they priced it and they went down to $9.99 which was a pretty big leap from $30 so I was happy with that and I thought I would just try to repair those pieces or I could just take them all off they're pretty easy to get off from the back side so but first what I'm going to do is try and repair them and I thought that I would actually use maybe this is goofy chopsticks because I have this set of chopsticks that we don't really ever use and they aren't exactly the same size but I bet that if I just use the thicker end and place it it wouldn't look too out of place so I'm just going to give that a shot and see if it works because I do want to paint this piece anyway and so it might blend right in pretty seamlessly. One of the main reasons that this shelf caught my eye in the first place was because I've been scrolling Magnolia's website and I love this Daphne wooden shelf that they're selling along with others that I've been seeing this is not the only one I do think that mine has some similarities with that style and then I also found almost the exact same one that I found for more than that on Etsy and eBay as you could see there more than my $10. I used those chopsticks and they worked great I'm sure if you look closely you'll be able to tell the difference but honestly I think that they'll work just fine without appearing to be off kilter once I have this all styled. The first thing that I'm doing is giving this a base coat of a gray spray paint this spray paint color is called driftwood and I can link it for you but I'm not stopping there because I don't want a gray shelf what I want is just a deeper toned more neutral dark wood shelf so I'm going back over that gray background of paint with this dark antiquing wax I love to use this antiquing wax it always gives a really great result I like to put it on with a brush it has a nice work time and it's very easy to just spread it out I like to go in with a brush because it will give you in the end an almost wood grain look which is really natural looking so I like to do that after that sits and dries which it has to dry for maybe five or six hours to be dry enough to the touch where you can work with it and go ahead and hang it I am just trying to basically keep it out of the way of our cat curry who just could not seem to stay away from it he wanted to sniff it and got it in his whiskers and on his nose so I had to keep kind of moving him out of the way I should have done this outside but once it was all done I think that it looks so so great and I'm excited to get it on the wall I just grabbed some hanging hardware from another picture frame that I wasn't using anymore and I'm just putting those right onto the back of this one since it didn't have any on it I like to use a laser level to get my exact line straight on the wall and then I like to use some masking or painter's tape stretched across the back from brace to brace put the holes in it there and then put that on the wall so that I can get the exact width that I need to hang a shelf or a picture like this so I'm using these drywall anchors just to make sure because this is a little bit heavy and then putting my screws in and it goes up on the wall really smoothly and pretty darn level the first time which is always great this is hanging on a sort of spare wall in our master bathroom and so I'm going to be styling it accordingly I found these really cute little washcloths actually I think that they're meant to be dishcloths but wait till you see them up close they're so pretty I'm using them for washcloths this little brass bud vase that I found at a thrift shop a while back a DIY candle that I made from a thrift shop as well a little jar full of some dried oranges which I think are not just for the holidays they go for any situation any time of the year they look great and this little crock also from the thrift shops a lot of you have seen all of those items before except for the washcloths are new also these hand towels I picked up the other day from home goods and I think that that will complete this shelf styling I don't think that in its previous orangey wood state this shelf would have looked very good at all in my home I think that it would have just looked dated but now with a darker more modern color I think that it looks like a purposefully vintage piece that blends in with my modern vintage and modern charm sort of style so I'm very happy with it and totally glad that I waited around an extra 10 minutes to talk to the manager about the price reduction so that I could get it for only ten dollars another item that I brought home this week was actually from this little liquidation shop in north Durham unfortunately they're moving out of the area soon which is a bummer but I picked up a few things from there and one of them was this sweet little table runner this is so pretty I love the pinstripes and I was really drawn to the pattern I thought I would try it as a table runner and I did it's actually a little long for our dining room table it is the 104 inch runner from threshold which is $23 from target I got mine for $2.50 and I had an idea that I've been wanting to make some curtains for this kitchen it's just a little bear and that would really warm it up this cafe curtain from pottery barn is $79 I definitely want to try to DIY my own so I'm going to use this fabric from this table runner to do just that so I've got here two quarters I'm just going to line them up like this that's going to be one panel and then I have the other two quarters that I'm going to make the second panel with and those are going to be my little cafe curtains in my opinion little projects like this are so worth the risk things that you thrift or get for very little money I mean this if these don't look good I'm out what two dollars and maybe like 30 minutes of my time doing something that I enjoy anyway my only thing is like if you're actually going to have time to do it sometime soon I think we can get in trouble when we're thrifting and doing crafts and projects when we have all these ideas and we're not actually going to have time to do them then you just end up with unnecessary clutter in your home so here again is the before picture you can see the window in the center there everything is clean and bright and nice but I just think that these curtains will add a lot and I wasn't wrong on this I really love the way that these curtains add a little bit of warmth right there and just makes the kitchen feel cozier and homier and I love them the pen stripes are perfect I couldn't have picked a better pattern if I tried and I think these just add a lot I just used a simple matte black kind of wrap around rod right there and it worked out perfectly now speaking of yard sales another thing that I picked up from a yard sale recently was an antique mirror I don't like to film on people's private property very overtly so I didn't get footage of myself actually getting it but it's this mirror again it was for five dollars and I thought that it was just really dirty on the front it did have some cracks in the frame which I was aware of but I wasn't concerned about that it seems to be a very old piece maybe french provincial sort of style but anyway also it had some marks that once I cleaned it I realized it was more of it was beginning to antique on the mirror itself and it had something that I didn't quite catch on film but it almost looked like a big fat handprint or something it was starting to antique basically but not in a very pretty way so I figured I would go ahead and take some steps to further antique this to blend that sort of in and make it look more intentional you can see here I found lots of examples of antiqued mirrors that are quite expensive online they're definitely a thing that people are buying and using and I think that they're beautiful so I'm just going to try to achieve that with some simple spray paint I'm going back in with that same gray driftwood color spray paint I have it set on low output this one has different kind of settings that you can use on it and I'm just standing back and doing a light mist around it again it's very hard to film on glass or a mirror you guys can't really see what I'm doing but I'm just doing it very lightly I did a light spritz of black spray paint as well and then I'm going in with some rubbing alcohol in that bottle and just kind of tapping and dabbing and making it kind of spread those out and look a little more authentic and I think that once I show you the final result back in the house you'll be able to see the effect that this creates so this is more of what it looks like once I'm done I think that it does have a fairly authentic antique look even though it's just a simple treatment with some spray paint there are other ways to achieve this going in through the back side of the mirror taking off some paint and stripping that and going in through the reflective layers I didn't want to mess with that and I think that this was a much easier way for only five dollars and some spray paint another thing that caught my eye at the thrift shops that I brought home was this little napkin holder or maybe you could call it a mail holder something like that I think probably was designed for napkins but in any case I really loved this dove carving that it had on each side this was $4.99 which I did think was actually a little bit high for what it was but I just really liked it and so I was trying to brainstorm some ideas something that I could do with this besides putting napkins or mail in it I didn't really need it for either of those reasons so I'm just taking out the screws that are on the bottom I can reuse this little piece maybe for something a little bit later but I'm thinking about this little side table that I just showed you and as you can see one of the panels in this has just recently come out it needs to be re-nailed in and also if I'm getting up close on this which I wasn't before it really needs a new paint job it's just kind of looking dingy at this point and needs some refreshment so I'm thinking I might use these dove panels to kind of customize this little side table so I took the table outside and the first thing I'm doing is taking off the hardware I'm going to give this whole thing a light sanding before I give it a new coat of paint and I thought I would leave that little accent in because I thought it was kind of funny so I'm just giving this a light sanding all over this is 220 grit sandpaper you can do this by hand obviously it's just a little faster to use this sander and I prefer it but after that is done I'm just wiping it all down and getting all of the dust off and the paint color I'm going to go with is this one it's a Sherwin Williams color called urbane bronze you may have heard of this one before it's been pretty popular for the past couple of years and I think it's a really beautiful color in all of the photos that I've seen so I'm going to go for it this is what it looks like sort of it always looks a little bit darker once it's dry but it's this nice rich dark gray color that's got a lot of green in it and it almost reads as black in certain lights this is the color sample so I'm going in with two coats of this urbane bronze color all over this piece and then I'll go on to the next step okay it's really hard to tell what the color actually looks like out here in the bright sunlight but I'm just going to wait for this to dry and once it's dry I'll move on to the next step which will be reattaching those front panels also I'm going in with a smaller brush including this really small craft brush to get in all of the crevices of my two little dove carvings and I also wanted to show you this touch-up paint pen set that I have just purchased from Amazon because I think it's really cool so you can use these little syringes that comes with it and basically keep on hand a small amount of your paint colors that you've used around your home and it has a little brush on the end of each one so that you can just really easily pop out this little pen and do quick and easy touch-ups so I thought that this was really neat I'm going to be using mine for my wall colors our cabinets and some other colors around our home and I like this idea it says it keeps the paint fresh in there for like seven years so I'm going to share that in the link with you too because I was excited to find those and use them so this is what the table looks like once I've got it back inside and I have reattached the front panels and secured those and I just need to now add my little dove carvings and see how these look on the front so what I'm doing is I'm using e6000 glue on the back side of this I'm going kind of all around this is a very strong glue so this should keep them really nicely on there and then since this doesn't dry immediately though after my e6000 I'm going in with a little bit of hot glue from my hot glue gun to make it stick immediately while the e6000 dries and sets for the next 24 hours one thing I was a little concerned about with putting these on was I wanted to make sure they were centered especially height wise I could eyeball pretty well from side to side but I wanted to make sure they were the exact same height so what I have there is just a little eraser that happened to be close by at the time and I'm just using that on the bottom of each so that when I apply them they're exactly the same height and it won't kind of catch your eye strangely or look off kilter I think that they ended up looking really cool and I imagined them adding just a little bit of fun and custom touch to this side table and I think that they did this is the cabinet that I keep some of our homeschool materials in for my daughter and so it's right there that's where we work is at the dining room table so I'm just putting all of that stuff back inside and this little table actually only cost me $12.99 from Goodwill I think sometime last year so it was already a great deal by itself now the last thing that I'm going to do is replace the hardware you see the new one that I got on the left and now they're both on and I think that the different hardware also adds to this charm of this little table and this is now perfect for us to use it's just got a little more interest and a little more of that modern charm feeling another thing I picked up at the thrift shops was this set of two of these swan candle holders I didn't really think too much about these when I put them in my cart I just figured for sure I would get them and do something with them it's one of those kind of days and so they cost me $2.99 each and my thought was that I would look them up first of all and see how valuable they were or how rare they were it seems to me like there are plenty of these exact ones for sale online they're not very expensive so that made me feel better about changing them up whereas if they were very rare or very expensive I would be too nervous to want to change them for their original state but I kind of wanted to see what these looked like as black swans instead of just the white ceramic just trying to make them look a little bit more modern and fit in with my decor a little bit better I think it would kind of be cool to have one white one and one black one but I went ahead and did both of these in black and just used a matte black spray paint for this they kind of reminded me of the swan artwork that I keep seeing on Etsy and in designers rooms as well and I think this is just a really pretty look it definitely leans more towards that romantic or even dark academia type of styling but I do think that it works in my home as well and I've just styled this one with a more modern style twisted candle and this is on my dresser top and I decided that they actually looked better broken up where just one was a statement piece rather than two side by side but I think this was a great deal for $2.99. 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