Sicknasty Ikea finds by Molly

Mybestfriendmolly (That is how I refer to her out loud, so it's how you have to hear it too..) found great things at Ikea to decorate her new and fabulous LA apartment.

salami table and condor chair


I wouldn't have though to pair the two together in the store, but I love how it looks! Woop woop Molly!





it's really salmi and nandor, but Ikealanguage drives me up a wall. I have a hard enough time with englizsh as it is.

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Congratulations New York!

Equal rights for all.



rainbow chairs for everyone, too.



from Christian Flindt. He is very cool.

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tulip table

found this



which is normally around $600 here,




at ikea for $179.

and now I want it even more than I did before. Waahhh.

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Serena & Lily Pondicherry Headboard DIY

I admired, adored, drooled and slobbered over this Serena and Lily headboard for ages:

the one glaring problem with this gorgeous headboard, was that it costs $1450. 
HAHA no.


So I made my own. It took a while, but was well worth it.


Here are the steps:


1. buy a HUGE piece of plywood. I don't remember the dimensions of the one we purchased, but it was $25 at Home Depot.



2. Measure your headboard and mark your measurements onto the plywood. I wanted ours to be 60 inches wide (and 75 inches high, but focus on width, because you can use brackets to connect legs made from the plywood). 
Measure half way into the width of your headboard and draw a line down the middle. My middle was 30 inches. Oooo math.


(2.5 Print out a copy of the headboard you want so you have something to go off of.)


3. Then draw your template directly onto your plywood. I did mine freehand, and it really doesn't matter if it's not perfect, because the more important thing is the symmetry. Which is step 4.



4. Take a big piece of paper, and reverse trace (which is tricky, so I recommend taping down your paper on the edges to prevent it from shifting around and lifting up every inch to make sure your lines are accurate). Draw your tracing line on the inside of the paper. I used a sharpie. 


5. Cut out the traced line, so you have a paper that looks like HALF of your would-be headboard.


6. Then (because your paper was only on half of the plywood) all you have to do is flip it over and trace the paper onto your plywood. 





7. Get a hunky guy to cut out your template with a jigsaw.




Ahhhhh love.


8. Ok, now cut out 2 long rectangles of plywood to make legs, and use metal brackets to hold them in place. I didn't take pictures of this part on purpose, it is not exciting. But you can see the legs in the next pictures.


Here's what you need for the rest of the project:
FOAM (but foam is expensive, and I am too cheap to buy foam, so I bought 1' thick batting pads. They're about 8 bucks for one. I needed 4... 32 dolla)
SPRAY GLUE
QUILT BATTING ($20 for a roll)
1.5 YARDS OF FABRIC (I chose cheap natural linen, so if I screwed up there wouldn't be tears. It was $28)
STAPLE GUN
UPHOLSTERY NAILS (4 boxes was $6)
HAMMER


9. Spray the glue all ova your headboard and smack down the batting pads. You can cut them with scissors to make them even with the edges of your headboard. Be sure to do this after your glue is completely dried, or you will have nasty scissors.



10. Look at the pic above this step. That white stuff that the headboard is laying on is the quilt batting. Flip your headboard over so that your headboard layer cake looks like this: floor, quilt batting, batting pads, plywood). Cut the quilt batting so that there's 1 foot of excess around the headboard.


11. Pull your batting back tightly around the back of the headboard, and staple with your staple gun.



12. Now lay down a sheet (so that your fabric doesn't get dirty), and lay your fabric down on top of the sheet (inside side up). Lay your headboard on top of that and cut your fabric around your headboard so you have a little more than 1 foot of excess.





13. staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull, staple, pull.



14. Hammer in upholstery nails along the outside rim, however far apart you want them. I didn't take a picture of this part either. I was alone, sweating, tired.... Not happening.


Then shove it behind your bed. No need to attach it to the wall cause your bed will hold it in place.








I am obsessed and want to sleep all the time. 






OH, by the way, it cost me about $110.00. And it's pretty close!

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something pink

cause I've been heavy into chairs lately....

and it looks really smushy... yet terribly uncomfortable. 


Perhaps it's..


.......the most comfortable uncomfortable chair in the world! Do do doo! 

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OHHHHHHMIGOSHHH

my blog was hacked by craigslist chairs!!!

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chairs with personality

Besides the fact that everything in this room is perfect, how fun are the chairs?!



The lines are so clean and simple, but if you put googly eyes on them they would talk to you.





see what I mean? I love furniture with personality.


Hello chair, how are you.


And really, these reupholstered could be just as snazzy.



Sooooo.. buy them here if you feel like being an angel of the chair world.

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stick art

these are cool

Jamie from i suwannee found them here. Her blog is amazing and if you haven't checked it out yet you should.

This would be fun to do with kids because you could make snakes


or you can hang em up


or prop them on your tree


OR paint your cat. people actually do this


and I found LOTS so If you want to see more painted cats, click "continue reading"

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old chair, new chair

this is dedicated to my mom. she bought me this chair OVER A YEAR AGO and I still hadn't done anything with it.

until yesterday. 

I was bored.

the victim:

love the shape, love the blue velvet. however the canning is ripped off all along the back and the wood is butt ugly.


attack!



these are awesome, and you can get them here



I taped off the velvet and painted it cool mint by Benjamin Moore. We had a sample left over from our family room, so that was easy.



Love it, but the part where I ripped the canning off looked junky.
So we add some upholstery tacks like so,



then if you are super impatient like me, you can hammer on the nails AND bring your new chair inside while it's still wet. I have no idea how I didn't mess it up



new chair with snazzy homegoods pillow



new chair with snazzy honegoods pillow next to his new friends




annnnnd just one more time cause it's fun

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remember to be grateful

I was getting frustrated because our family room is far from finished. No moulding, no baseboards, 70's windows, and I want to paint the bricks.

BUT then I remembered what we had started out with...

we've come a long way, baby





ps. the color on the walls is cool mint by Benjamin Moore, and it's quite possibly the best color ever. 

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trunks

I recently stumbled upon two gorgeous trunks, and if I am ever lucky enough to have gorgeous trunks, this is what I would do with them...


(just think of the history they come with! and what a great conversation piece! ahhh)



i believe this is from Tommy Hilfigggger's (sp?) apt



encased in lucite. I would only do this if the trunk was a biohazard. but I like the trunk.



ridonkulous.




or stacked in the bedroom....

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