 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to my channel. The birds are saying hi too. Welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox. I hope you guys are all having an amazing day so far. As you can see, I'm outside. Okay, she said hello for a long time. Today I decided to just go outside and film my intro because it was a really nice day and I thought this background looked really, really pretty and I'm also working on a lot of fun projects inside so I figured I don't wanna clean everything up to film an intro so I'm gonna be filming it outside for you guys today. Today we are gonna be doing an IKEA hacks video which I am so excited about because it's honestly one of my favorite videos to do but as many of you guys know with quarantine, I believe almost all the IKEA locations have been closed down but they just recently reopened them and are practicing social distancing so if you do wanna go IKEA stores, I believe are now open. You might wanna check your local one to see if it is. Oh my gosh, I literally almost forgot guys that I did something exciting over the past couple of days. I actually launched the Lone Fox blog which I didn't really talk about it much here on YouTube but if you follow me on Instagram, I had a 15 day countdown. I was so excited for it and the blog is finally here. So the blog is honestly just like an additional area for content for you guys. So there's gonna be tons of stuff on DIY. I wanna do some cooking and baking posts, travel, lifestyle, just tons of fun things and I actually have like an introductory post over there if you wanna check it out, I will link it below for you guys and if you guys want updates on when I post a new blog post, I would highly suggest following me on Instagram at Lone Fox Home that way you guys can get an update because I'll definitely be storing and also posting all of the new blog posts over there for you guys so you have first access. Okay, I think that's really all. Let's jump into today's projects. For this first project, I'm going to be using the Simrisham light fixture from IKEA. This is a tabletop light and I believe it's around $29 and I also believe it is newer. They do also make this in a floor version as well but I pulled out some of my marble contact paper and this one kind of has a funky marble pattern on it. It has more of peachy tones, pink tones and I cut a piece that was large enough to cover the top surface of the base and I cut a slit down the middle because we're gonna wanna wrap this around the cord. As you can see here, I'm going to use that slit to be able to slide it through the cord space and then make sure that those pieces on the opposite side that we did cut just match up on the other side and the seam is almost going to be completely unrecognizable so do not worry about that at all. I then went in and used my Xacto knife to cut around the hole that the cord was in just to give it a much more clean finish and then I also decided to go around and use my Xacto knife just to cut off all the extra contact paper around the edges. This was super easy because the base was like a very, very crisp metal edge so I decided to guide my Xacto knife along the edge and cut off anything extra and I did wanna wrap the bottom of the base as well so I cut out a thin strip that was wide enough to cover the bottom, started the seam on the backside and just wrapped this all the way around the bottom of the base of the light and when I reached the backside, I just cut off the excess and then also use my Xacto knife to trim away any additional contact paper. So we're gonna now go in with some painter's tape to basically tape off the cord that we don't want spray painted and also tape off the light fixtures that of course we don't want to have paint inside of. So I use the painter's tape to do that, put it in my spray paint box and use a matte black spray paint to paint the entire base of this light. I was really hoping to use my brass spray paint that I traditionally use and I pulled it out of my stash and it was legit empty, I was so sad. So I just ended up using matte black which I think looked great as well but I do think brass would just pair a little bit nicer and look a little bit more metallic especially with that really pretty contact paper. So I sprayed that fully and let the paint dry and then once it's fully dried and ready to go, you can just go ahead and screw it back together based off of the instructions and pull off any of that tape that you initially put on there. It comes with the light bulbs, which is really nice and I just screwed on little orbs onto each side and that really finishes off this table lamp. You could style it on top of a mantle or a desk, whatever you wanna do. For our next project, I'm going to start off with the Trampa door mat from Ikea and I found this idea on TikTok and I've been searching for it for over an hour prior to this voiceover and I cannot find it at all. I believe I saw it about maybe a year ago or so but basically the girl flipped the door mat over and created a half circle shape which is going to be the base of our rainbow and I'm using some utility scissors to cut this out but if any of you guys have seen this on TikTok, please let me know who created it originally because I would love to give credit to her but the idea has just been stuck in my head for so long, I really wanted to recreate it. So the great thing about these door mats is you can cut them to whatever shape you want them to be and then I'm using a half inch masking tape to go around the entire exterior edge and we're gonna then go in and kind of create our rainbow arches on the inside and you can vary the width of this, you can use a one inch wide tape, you can do a three inch wide paint section, however many stripes you wanna add, it's totally customizable and the colors are also customizable as well. So I started off with this really nice tan acrylic paint and I would also suggest guys that this door mat is not in like some insane high traffic muddy area, this is just more of like a cutesy door mat, like if you're gonna walk on it, of course, it's totally fine but if you're also running in the door with muddy feet every single day, this probably isn't your best option but I went in with some light pink, some gray, some yellow, some blue and some green just to kind of resemble a little bit more of a minimal rainbow tone and I also wanted to create this because I thought it was super appropriate in honor of Pride Month this month, I thought this was a really, really nice piece and I can't wait to display it outside of my door. The best part honestly is removing the tape, this is my favorite part for sure, removed all that tape, just let this cure overnight and you are good to go with your new rainbow door mat. Here is the simplest project of the video, I'm starting up with the Mammut stool which is a children's stool, it's just a plastic stool, it cost $7 at IKEA and I assembled it and all I'm going to be doing this stool is spray painting it with two generous coats of the terracotta spray paint I've been featuring on my channel lately, I just love the finish of this and when I saw this stool, I loved the arched legs of it, I thought it kind of gave a very nice plant stand look and also kind of matched with current trends in home decor so I figured I was going to spray paint this and you could spray paint this however you would like but I wanted to do terracotta just to give it a more natural kind of earthy tone and I just gave it two full coats, let it dry overnight and turned it into a super affordable plant stand. And for our last project, you know I had to save my favorite one for last, this is the IVAR cabinet from IKEA and I'm using this as a base and it is essentially just a simple pine cabinet with some shells on the inside and I believe that these are traditionally meant to kind of create your own storage solution but they're also super DIY-able and customizable because they're just a simple pine wood so I assembled it based off of the instructions which I'm sure a lot of you guys know how IKEA Furniture goes and then I purchased a set of like, I guess they're feet braces, I don't know the exact term of this but I screwed them onto the bottom and then I screwed in these wooden legs that I also purchased on Amazon so I'm going to link below the braces and the legs which you can purchase on Amazon, it kind of has a very mid-century look and I used my early American wood stain from Baratheon to stain the top two thirds of this cabinet because I really wanted to give it almost a color blocked effect but I didn't want the super light pine wood on the top, I kind of wanted something a little bit more warm and a little bit more deep because I'm actually going to be giving this to my dad for Father's Day, I know he wanted something similar to this piece and I was like, I'm going to just create one of my own. So I used a piece of painter's tape to mask off the bottom third and you can create a line whatever you want to do, I added a couple of line marks all the way around and then I used the same exact Hail Navy paint which you could see in the top left corner of this video, that is the paint color on my dining room wall and I had some extra in my stash so I just decided to paint the bottom half with the navy color because I thought it would fit his aesthetic pretty nicely so I used a brush and painted this all the way around and I did two full coats of this paint on the bottom third of the entire piece and I also added it to the legs which I think is super important because it really gives a finished look. Going in with just a smaller little detail brush here to add any more additional details and I just felt like it was not finished, it doesn't need to have handles, however, I felt like adding these nice golden handles which you guys saw in my Amazon favorites recently would just create such a pop and it literally finishes this piece perfectly. Alrighty, so those are my projects for today. I hope that you guys enjoyed this IKEA hacks video. I really, really love the outcome of all the projects but yeah guys, I think that's all for today. I hope that you enjoyed this video and also guys, don't forget to check out the Lone Fox Journal. I will link it below for you and read that introductory post. It's called A New Chapter and basically I talk about kind of how I started social media, how I got into blogging first back in almost 2010. It's been a long time and how I transitioned that into my YouTube channel, my Instagram and kind of like the rise of Lone Fox so I give it a lot of details on a lot of stuff I haven't really talked about in the past, so definitely check out that post below and don't forget to follow me over on Instagram at Lone Fox Home and subscribe to my channel here for brand new content every single week on Home Decor and DIY but that is enough shelf promotion. I will let you guys go. Have an amazing rest of your day. Bye guys.