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September 23, 2015

DIY wine rack makeover

September 23, 2015

Another day, another chance for me to DIY and get spray paint all over myself.  I can’t get enough.  Case in point: these lamps and these picture frames.

It’s gotten to the point where I have figured out the prices and selections at my Pat Catan’s and Joann Fabrics stores is not as vast or easy on the wallet as at Home Depot.  Seriously.  If there is one store I avoid like the plague (next to IKEA for reasons why here) it’s Home Depot.  I always feel like a 6 year old in pigtails asking for help there.

But I found spray paint that was like…75% cheaper there than at a craft store.  So of course I had to do something with it…

80s wine rack makeover with spray paint. Love how this turned out! | Gardening In High Heels

I have this really old hand-me-down wine rack that my mom left when she moved out and it’s just not doing me any favors.

I think it was part of my parents’ dining set when they got married because the caning looks similar.  How she got this one piece and the rest of it stayed with my father, I’ll never know.  Mysteries of the family.  Either way, it’s mine now and I have stared at this long enough.

To the paint!  I used Rust-oleum Gold Metallic and Semi-Gloss Black spray paint to update this clunker.  Krylon is usually my go-to for spray paint, but I think Home Depot has a deal with Rust-oleum.

80s wine rack makeover with spray paint. Love how this turned out! | Gardening In High Heels

True story: growing up, I was not a fan of gold.  I only wore silver jewelry and I gravitated towards cooler tones.  Well, times have changed because I can’t get enough of gold accents now.  I mean, it’s a design element in the tagline in my header!  And black and gold just looks so chic together.

Please ignore the fact that I am from Pittsburgh and am proclaiming my love for the black/gold color combo.  I swear I’m not that stereotypical.

If you need proof that I cannot do anything without first making a huge mess, I give you my hand after spray painting the tiles on the top of the rack.

Spray paint blunders

The tiles look pretty, too.

Ceramic tiles spray painted with Rustoleum gold spray paint - perfect DIY update! | Gardening In High Heels

I’m so happy with the outcome of this DIY makeover.  The best thing about spray paint is how easy it is to completely change the look of something.  I’m at the point where I want to paint anything that isn’t nailed down (and maybe some things that are.)

80s wine rack makeover with spray paint. Love how this turned out! | Gardening In High Heels

80s wine rack makeover with spray paint. Love the gold and black combo! | Gardening In High Heels

80s wine rack makeover with spray paint. Love the gold and black combo! | Gardening In High Heels  80s wine rack makeover with spray paint. Love the gold and black combo! | Gardening In High Heels

Keep wine corks in a latern from IKEA! | Gardening In High Heels

I thought I’d be super-cute and paint an old DVD/CD tower to match.  It didn’t have nearly as much luck.  I thought I grabbed the paint+primer kind that can cling to a water buffalo, but either this laminate was no match for the paint or I didn’t get the right kind.

Spray paint fails - you get chips if you don't use the right kind or prep your surfaces!

I tried to put the shelves in and got scratches galore.  Fail all over.  So this has been sitting on my back porch while I get the nerve to take it up to the curb for trash day.  I hate giving up on a project, don’t you?

80s wine rack makeover with spray paint. Love the gold and black combo! | Gardening In High Heels

What have you DIY-ed recently?

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September 18, 2015

5 stages of putting together IKEA furniture

September 18, 2015

I have spent the better part of the summer putting together IKEA furniture and the process is the same no matter what. It’s long and painful and never really gets any easier the more you do it.  It’s almost like the Five Stages of Grief, but with more crying and throwing things.

Putting together IKEA furniture sucks! Five stages everyone goes through when they're putting together IKEA furniture | Gardening In High Heels

Excitement

Yeah, alright, I have new furniture! I’ll refresh my look and it’ll be so affordable. I may even do one of those Apartment Therapy IKEA hacks. And I got this fun organizer, and these plates, and a funky Euro print, too, and it was all in one place. One-stop home furnishings shopping. I love this place and I’m never leaving. I’m so urban and hip, I can’t stand myself.

Disbelief

Wait a minute, that cost how much?? But I just got some dog-butt hooks and a night stand! Also how do these Swedish people transport this stuff? Are they ridiculously strong and carry it home on their backs? Because this defintely isn’t fitting in my car and aren’t European cars even smaller?

Frustration

Why do I have 50 little screws and only 10 holes? Do I have to make my own? Am I being punked? This can’t be right, can it??

And what’s this diagram showing me? Not to climb on the bookshelf? No kidding! How about I also don’t take my new desk lamp into the bath with me.

I give up. I’m going to lay here like Sadness until Joy drags my away by my foot because I am done and this is stupid and I’m stupid because I can’t figure out why this little line drawing looks so happy and I just want to jump into a bath with my desk lamp plugged in.

Acceptance

Fine. I’ll keep building because it’s better than figuring out how to get it back to the store half-built. Also, I don’t want to go to the 7th circle of hell ever again. So I’ll just stay right here. Pouting.

Begrudging Relief

It is done. Someone get me a coffee the size of my head and follow it up with a stiff drink. I need to forget that experience ever happened. I am never doing that again. Oooh mail’s here, look at the new catalog! I want this..and this..

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I swear, if you want to get married to someone, put together IKEA furniture first. If you successfully build it will all the parts and don’t want to rip each others’ head off, congrats. You should get married. You could also probably raise kids together as well or at least care for a very large dog.

I think I’m going to lay off the IKEA furniture for a while.

What’s your IKEA experience been like recently? Any fun stories?

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