i used to love this show. debbie would take these things that the home owner had around and add some paper plates and plaster and some antiquing effects and make something that looked about ready to send to the dump like you had just paid $2,000 for it.
i've had a storage problem for a long time. i've got all of these art pads and things that are too big for my bookshelves that i've wanted to find a permanent home for (on top of bookshelves is not a suitable home after all). i also have tonnes of junk in junk boxes (since my apartment has about four shelves in total) that i've been longing to place in drawers of some type. so this week off, it seemed like it would be a good time to go and procure the drawers of my dreams (omg - i hope that doesn't sound the way that i think it does).
i bought a set of wide, deep, flat drawers from ikea for about $150, but didn't want it to seem like i was loading my place up with anonymous ikea crap - so i thought customizing it in some way would be a good idea. since gretel has proven to be my most loyal and loving cat, i thought putting her beautiful eyes on the cabinet would be a good start, so i came up with a plan. i took my favourite photo of her, converted it to a black-and-white line-screened image that i could trace onto the drawers with a data projector, and painted the traced image with acrylic paints. the entire process took over 20 solid hours of my vacation (1 hour for initial construction, three hours to trace the image, and 17 hours to paint), but i am so incredibly pleased with the results, i don't even mind that i can't sit up straight. i love these drawers, and i love that they are on castors so i can roll this into my bedroom/office when i need to. but more than that, i love that i managed to bring the whole thing in on time and on budget. now, i figure if i could sell these for $3,000 a pop, then i could quit my day job and make these for the rest of my life for paying clients.
- g
song of the day causing yourself excruciating muscular pain with your stupid do-it-yourself projects: no one, yamin (andy duguid remix)
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