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Welcome back to my channel today I have one of my favorite videos to create for you guys You all know that I love a good IKEA hack and today I have four really fun projects the little like bar that I'm creating Which is kind of inspired by a CB2 style bar towards the end of the video is One of my favorite DIYs I think that I've ever done it is just so cool and I cannot wait to stylist in my home I think I might put it in the entryway area because I'm going to be doing an entryway makeover towards the end of The month and not only are these projects perfect to create for your own home But they are also incredible Christmas gift ideas you guys like the vase that I'm creating this video cost me probably around $10 to make and I would love to receive a gift like that from somebody it is so cool and fun And I'm sure a lot of you guys know I absolutely love creating DIY holiday gifts And I actually just wanted to share this here on my channel because this was actually a project I did in partnership with Home Depot and it was only over on my Instagram But I really felt the need to share it here as well because how flippin cute is this Fox holiday-hanging planter I am so obsessed with this and you guys can find so many incredible DIY homemade gift ideas using the link below check out Home Depot's website I'm going to link them below for you guys because there are so many different projects And I actually created this one for them and of course because we are in the month of December I'm doing so many giveaways I want to really give back to a lot of you guys this holiday season because this year has been absolutely crazy for me And I'm so so excited and happy to see what comes in 2021 But I am going to be giving away two iPads at the end of this video one for you and one for a friend So definitely stay tuned until the end to see how to enter that giveaway But let's go ahead and jump on into these IKEA hacks because there's so much fun And I cannot wait to share them with you guys, so let's get started One of my most recreated projects is actually this basket light that I created quite a while back probably about two years ago It was an IKEA hacks video as well and I figured let's go ahead and do an updated version today So I absolutely love taking baskets like this one. This one here is from IKEA It is the herring basket and I'm also going to be using the Hema cord This is just like a wall plug and cord and what I started off by doing was flipping the basket over And then I took the cord kit and I placed the top section where the light bulb actually kind of screws in on top Traced around it on the bottom side of the basket and use an exacter knife just to cut out a hole shape here Traditionally, I would probably use like a drill or a pair of scissors However, the bottom of this particular basket is very very hard for some reason So I just felt like the exacter knife would be a little bit better in terms of keeping it intact So that's exactly what I did It took me a minute or two to cut through that section and then I really wanted a camouflage that this was a basket So I ended up cutting off those leather handles there But I'm gonna keep those because I feel like I can use them in the future for something and to finish off the project All you have to do is just kind of tuck that cord kit right inside of that hole flip it around to the opposite side And you're gonna screw on the little attachment that makes it stay in place and then just screw your light bulb in and you are good to go This created such a cute sheet pendant lamp I've been so in love with kind of distressed vintage style pottery lately and I found this piece at Ikea here It is a ceramic vase and it was actually on sale for just about five dollars And then I also grabbed some joint compound from my stash And I am going to start off by kind of just using my finger and rubbing some joint compound on the entire Exterior of this vase now this color of vase is not my favorite. It's quite bright So we are going to be transitioning this into a more moody kind of vintage inspired distressed piece And I wanted to start off by creating a brand new texture on the front side So that's what I'm doing with this joint compound here and there is no rhyme or reason to this at all You just want to kind of create a new texture You're gonna want to go ahead and let that joint compound fully dry down and then what I did was I grabbed some black acrylic paint And some baking soda because we are going to be creating the iconic ceramic paint So all you have to do for this is kind of mix equal parts of paint and baking soda Of course the more baking soda you add the thicker consistency that you get I traditionally like it to be a little bit thicker so I can add more texture And you're gonna want to go ahead and paint this on the entire exterior of the vase But the great thing about this is I feel like I never have to do more than one coat for some reason when I do the baking soda paint So that's amazing. I painted this on the entire outside I grabbed my heat tool to just speed up the process a little bit and yes you guys This is actually a heat tool so many people are like that's not a heat tool That is a hairdryer and I'm like no it's an actual legit heat tool and it's super quiet as well Which I love so I'll try to link this below if I can find it online for you guys I got this like eight or nine years ago. This is the texture that you get though It is so cool and it's great as is however I'm taking it the extra step and I went outside I grabbed some dirt from the garden And I'm mixing a little bit of water in there to create a mud consistency And I'm just going to kind of like effortlessly paint this on the exterior of our vase And the great thing about this is that when it dries down all of the dirt and kind of sand residue Settles in the cracks and I just discolors to paint a little bit and then you can go ahead and wipe it off So as you can see here as I'm drying the vase down the actual black paint It shifts a little bit and almost gets a little bit distressed and worn as if it's been outside for a long time Which that is the look I'm trying to go for so once you are done with that Just go ahead and scrape off any excess dirt or mud and that's all there is to it It's a really cute inexpensive distressed pottery piece Now this project here is not a hack however I don't know if any of you guys have ever seen this at Ikea It is from the kids section and it is a weaving loom I have never personally seen this before and I've never ever seen someone share it or talk about it on youtube or anything of the nature So I figured I was going to go ahead and purchase this child's weaving loom and see if I can create something cute on it Because I always love weaving I have a weaving loom myself and this is just a fun little take on it And it was only 20 bucks So I went ahead and followed the instructions and I put it together It was so super easy to create which I loved that and then I also absolutely love the needle that it comes with It has a large eye, which is great for thicker yarns And guys I also want to mention that I'm not going to go through an entire tutorial on how to weave in this video Because I have an entire video on my channel dedicated to how to weave a Tapestry like this and I also show how to create your very own loom as well So I'll put that in a card up top if you are curious However, I'm just going through and I wanted to see if this was actually a workable usable loom And I can tell you guys right now. It was incredible I've also never woven upright if that makes sense like this loom stands up I normally always just do it in my lap So I went ahead and I just kind of grabbed an assortment of neutral color yarns And I also added a little pop of green in there and created this really cute tapestry piece So I'll just let you guys kind of watch as I create I think a key element to any great tapestry is mixing up the textures and thicknesses of your yarns And then also kind of mixing up the tones of colors that you're using as well And then on the bottom just to finish it off. I wanted to add a simple little tassel here So how I did that was I cut about 24 inches of yarn And I'm going to stick the halfway point or like the loop little section of the folded yarn From the backside to the front and then pull those little left and right strands on either side of our string And you're just going to slip those right through that hole that you originally pulled through Just pull it tight and push it up to the top of your tapestry there And that creates a little tassel on the bottom there, which is very very cute I love having those in the bottom of my tapestry It also easily makes it a lot longer So you don't have to weave it anymore And I also went ahead and tied all my loose ends from where I kind of started and stopped the yarn And then to take it off the loom what I do is I just go ahead and I cut the Two strands that are next to each other or the neighboring strands And I just tied them in a simple square knot until the top and bottom is removed from the loom I don't exactly know if this is the most proper way to do it However, I wanted to do it this way and I also opted to not add a wooden dowel to the top of this one I'm doing a little bit of a different method And the said method involves a little piece of cardboard or chipboard I'm just cutting a small little section here that I'm going to be gluing on the backside Just to add some stability to the top there because it's a pretty flimsy piece Of course made of just yarn I'm using some Faber-Tac adhesive gluing this to the top section that you guys can see And then this is also the backside by the way And I'm also going to go ahead and glue on a little hanging section Which just consists of about a 12 inch piece of yarn I'm going to tape that down while it dries on there and that finishes off your tapestry The Ikea loom worked incredibly highly suggested if you're in the market for one And yeah, I love this project And this is the project we have all been waiting for I found this Ivar cabinet, Ivar cabinet at the Aziz section in Ikea It was only $49 and I was like, let's go ahead and flip this I had a vision in my head right when I saw it And what I went ahead and did was I measured the length at the front of the door first Because I found these half inch wooden dowels at Lowe's They were $4.50 per 8 foot section And I ended up getting about 21 of these for the entire project However, if you do have the skill set to cut down a piece of plywood into half inch sections You can totally do that as well I just do not have the capability to do that So I bought these half inch dowels and what I am doing is I'm first cutting them To be the exact height of my cabinet door fronts Now the door fronts are actually a little bit different than the side pieces for some reason I'm not sure why because they look pretty similar But I ended up cutting a lot of these for the door fronts And then we're also going to be cutting them for the side pieces as well But what we're going to start off by doing is just placing our farthest left little dowel section on And using a nail gun to nail it down Now I started off with using one and a half inch nails Which ended up resulting in the nail going through the other side like this So I ended up going back to Lowe's and I picked up some one inch nails Which as you can see are much shorter and they were perfect So once I got back I was able to continue on and this is actually a very simple process All you have to do is place down one of your wooden dowels as a spacer And then place another dowel right next to it budding it up to your spacer piece And then it nailed down your piece of wood and then pull out the spacer if that makes sense I feel like this is a very hard thing to explain It's a little bit more simple if you kind of see what I'm doing on the screen here But basically what I'm doing is I'm placing down my wooden dowel And there's a spacer in between where I'm going to be spacing out the wood So basically every half inch there is a wooden dowel stapled out However, it's just much easier to use a wooden dowel as a spacer since I want everything to be very symmetrical as well So I finished the entire front of this cabinet by nail gunning down All the wooden dowels across the front of it and once this is stained You can really see that texture but as a light wood like this, it's kind of hard to tell So I repeated the process across the other front door and you can kind of see how I'm doing it a little bit easier here We are then going to go ahead and repeat the process on the sides as well Because the main sections that are going to be showing are the sides in the top So I cut out the wooden dowels and I repeated the same exact process by cutting them down And then nail gunning them to the side of the cabinet both the left and right side Then we gotta go ahead and create the base for this which I really think elevates the whole piece So I grabbed these one by sixes and I cut out two pieces that were 27 inches and two pieces that were six and one Quarter inch basically we're going to be creating a box on the bottom using some of these two and a quarter inch Screws very similar to my bench tutorial. If you guys remember, this is just such a simple woodworking Technique not even a technique because this is nothing crazy at all. I don't even know what I'm doing But it seemed right in my head So basically what I'm doing is I'm screwing through our longer sections into our shorter sections And we are going to be creating a wooden box Which is then going to be Underneath our cabinet and prop it up and kind of give it a level of interest And I just knew I needed to add some more details to that bottom section as well So what I did was I cut down these spare ending pieces from the dowels I cut originally I cut them down to the same exact height of our little box section That's going to be the base of our cabinet and I stapled them around using the same exact technique And now comes time to attach the pieces together So of course I didn't add those little detail sections to the backside because no one's going to see that But I'm going to be using these little L brackets here. I picked these up at the hardware store There's just simple two little screws that go on each side and it's going to be attaching our legs or the base to the cabinet itself So I just went ahead and I added four of these all around the entire interior of the box That's why I loved creating the box because it allowed me to easily attach these in once you have that on there It's nice and sturdy and good to go and of course we want a nice clean finish before staining So I grabbed this stainable wood filler and I'm going to fill all of our little broad nail holes And once that's dried down just use a nice fine sandpaper to remove any of that filler residue over the top So here you can see what we are working with so far I am so obsessed with the base of this but you really can't see the detail So I'm going to make this pop using some true black wood finish by minwax This is just like a wood stain and I went in with a stain brush And I went around and painted the entire exterior every single nook and cranny with this stain here Now guys, I do suggest wearing gloves for this because I got it all over my hands and they were stained like crazy afterwards However, it was totally worth it because this project turned out amazing in the end And when I initially painted on the black wood stain, it was so dark But as it dried it kind of soaked into the wood and you can really see the wood grain through it Which is something I really wanted to see through was that wood grain while it still had that kind of like dark black wood Look if that makes sense I let the stain dry overnight just so that it could really penetrate the wood and then in the morning I went ahead and I grabbed a drill and I'm going to be drilling through the front to add some handle pulls Originally, I wasn't going to do this but I loved these ones that I found out lows They were just like such a soft warm toned like Golden silver color. They were just really pretty. They're almost like a champagne tone and that just finished off this cabinet I love the outcome And there you go, those are my Ikea hacks for you guys I hope that you enjoyed these projects. I have to say the bar was 100% my favorite It can either be a bar or a cabinet whatever you want to use it as a little storage hutch I just really loved overall vibe of this piece. I think it looks really elevated and chic And honestly to create that bar for a little under $200. I think it's an incredible price point I feel like typically these kinds of bars or cabinets are upwards of like 800 to $1,000 And I really really loved the way that this one turned out and I hope that you guys did as well And of course you guys it is giveaway time, which is the most exciting part of the video I think actually honestly the projects were really fun So um, this is just like a little bonus added on but I'm going to be giving away Two ipads to a lucky winner today So one winner is going to win two ipads one for you and one for a friend or family member I thought that was a great way to be able to give back to maybe someone in your life as well And of course the rules are always so super simple to enter my giveaways All you have to do is be subscribed to my channel and make sure that you turn on that bell icon next to the subscribe button I'm I'll put a little animation up here on how to do that Just click the subscribe button if you are not subscribed and if you already are make sure that bell button is always clicked as well Now there is going to be one other rule to enter this giveaway You must be following me over on instagram So my instagram is going to be on the screen here. It is lone fox home All you have to do to enter is find this photo over on my instagram Simply read the caption on there leave a comment and you are entered into today's giveaway That is all you have to do It is open 100 worldwide and I will make sure to also put the little ending date in the caption of that instagram photo So you guys know when you can enter by and yeah, that's really all super simple and easy to enter And of course my giveaways are open 100 worldwide. So wherever you are in the world I will gladly ship the products to you. Um now, of course, I'm holding up my ipad But the winner I'm going to actually let you guys select your color and I'm just going to ship it straight from the website I was originally going to go like to the actual apple store and buy them and then come back and ship them But I figured it would just honestly be easier and a little bit more safe to just stay home and then ship you guys Exactly what you want. So I'm not picking out a color. You don't want as well So everything's customized, which is really really nice. And of course you guys Thank you so much for following and subscribing to my channel and I hope you enjoyed today's video I will catch you in my next one. Of course, we have so much more fun content coming out this month And yeah, I'll catch you guys next time. Bye guys