GOLD & MARBLE IKEA TABLES HACK DIY _ Bang On Style.

So I'm back with a brand new bang on DIY video. I know it's been a little while but this one is a gold and marble Ikea table hack tutorial. I'm going to transform two super budget Ikea tables into something much more Pinterest worthy. So I'm going to be making over the Ikea Visto glass and metal laptop table and also the Nestnet wooden and glass bedside table. These are both really cheap from Ikea and in fact I actually found my laptop desk in a charity shop for £10 so it was even cheaper. But these bedside tables are an absolute bargain at £9 each so I bought two and I did the DIY on both of them. So we're going to be transforming the laptop table into a really cool marble and gold console or hallway table and the little Nestnet bedside table into your bedside table of dreams. Both tutorials are pretty much the same with the two pieces of furniture and it's so easy to do so here's how I did it. So this is the Visto laptop table in the flesh. As you can see I found mine in black, the metal's black. You can actually buy it in white now I think at Ikea. It has this lower shelf and yeah it's quite a narrow design with a removable glass section on the top. The bedside table is bamboo with a glass top. The rather than remove it all together. So the first thing I did to the laptop table was just to mask off this lower shelf which isn't removable. We're actually going to use this as a really cute little magazine shelf but for now I don't want it to get sprayed so I've masked it off with paper and masking tape. The glass plate in the top, the glass sheet, I'm actually just going to remove and put to one side. The little bedside table I'm going to mask off the glass on the top just so it doesn't get covered in spray. I'm just using my favourite ever masking tape which is Gorilla masking tape, it is the best masking tape in the world. And just some basic paper, you can use newspaper or whatever. Cut it to size and seal the top all in. As you can see I'm working outside because I'm going to be spraying and I have protected everywhere with a dust sheet. I'm using Plastico primer in grey and my very very jazzy spray trigger which does make spraying a lot easier. You can pick these up for a couple of pounds usually where the spray paint is. So I'm going to give both tables a good coat of primer. I always like to do nice thin coats so I go in first with a really really thin coat all over. Don't do it too thickly or you're going to get drips so nice and thin first time. So I'm going to do the same with the bedside table, again nice thin even coat all over making sure to get underneath and on all sides of the legs and then I'm going to leave both tables to dry and then repeat this probably twice so a total of three coats of primer just to make sure that it's done really evenly and really well. Priming is so important when you're going to paint furniture. Once I'm really happy with my primer and it's all dried I'm then going to move on to the gold which is obviously the most exciting bit and again the same rule applies, really nice thin even coats. That's the best way to get a nice neat finish with your gold paint all over, you don't want any drips so take your time spray thinly and evenly and leave to dry for plenty time in between coats. I'm using the Plastic Coat Brilliant Metallic Gold so it's not the matte gold it's the one that has the lovely brilliant metallic finish and that's going to give you a really really nice shiny finish on your console table especially on the metal. So I'm going back in here for coat number two, again nice and thin and even. I think I did a total of three coats in the end just to make it really really neat and make sure there weren't any patches at all. When it's fully dry you can turn it upside down and make sure you get underneath things but also bear in mind parts that won't be seen, there's no point wasting spray if you're not actually ever going to see it so for example the parts of the table underneath the marble you're not going to see there so maybe don't worry too much about getting it perfect there. So while the tables are drying I'm going to move on to applying the marble pvc onto my plate sheets of glass that's come out of the laptop table. So the first thing you're going to want to do is just lie it on the floor make sure there's no sharp bits and bobs on the floor, bits of grit and stuff because this can actually cause dents and tears and things in your pvc so make sure you've got a nice smooth surface. My pvc as you can see is a little bit old it's been folded up in a drawer and I probably could have used a better bit of pvc however I did manage to smooth it out okay I would suggest you guys start with a nice brand new piece so cut it to size leave a little bit of excess around the size of the sheet of glass and then you're going to start off by just peeling a very small section of the pvc back then you're going to turn your sheet of glass over and you're going to actually work with the sheet of glass right way up so the little section that you've peeled back that's sticky with a little bit of an overhang you're going to stick that nice and central onto your piece of glass. So along with your pvc you're going to want a nice soft cloth and you're going to use this to buff out any bumps and smooth out the pvc as you're applying it. So if you don't know this pvc sticky back pvc you can get in places like Wilko's, supermarkets and you can also buy it on amazon so I'm going to link a couple of places where you can buy it below and you can get different types of marble as well a deeper black one you can get one that's more yellowy there's loads of different choices. So what I'm basically doing is I'm pulling away the backing sheet from underneath and slowly smoothing it out with the cloth as I pull it back little by little so you want to work quite slowly work out all of the bumps of the creases it is a little bit time consuming but it's worth it to get a really really nice smooth finish. So I'm going to work my way along the piece of glass by peeling back the backing from underneath and smoothing down with the cloth. This sticky back pvc is quite forgiving you can lift it up and seal it back down again quite a few times before it stops being sticky but the best thing to do is to try and get it right first time and that's why it's good to work slowly. So once you get to the end and you've taken the pvc right up to the edge we're going to smooth down the last bit and then we're going to flip the whole sheet of glass back over upside down again. We're now going to work on folding over the excess pvc that we've left around the whole piece of glass. So starting at the middle I'm just basically going to fold it over and smooth it along try and pull it as tight as you can so you get a nice finish if you find that you get any folds I just use some scissors to make a little slit which helps you overlap the two flaps if that makes sense and that means you can get a really really nice tight and neat finish around all of the edges. Of course once you drop this back into the laptop desk you're not going to be able to see the underneath so as long as it's all stuck down it doesn't really matter if it's not 100% neat. Okay so I'm going to do my best to show you what I did with the corners so the first thing I did was cut a little slit as you can see so that's slit number one and then I'm going to cut a second slit on the other side of the corner and I'm going to fold that whole flap over so as you can see you're left with like a little rectangle of pvc but you're also going to have a gap between the two pieces of pvc on that corner so to seal that gap I'm just going to snip a little bit of the excess of that off and fold that over and that little piece of pvc is just going to cover up the gap between the two bits there and that's just going to make it look nice and neat. Hopefully that makes sense of course rewind and you can watch that again if you want to see exactly how I did it. So I'm just going to work my way around the whole piece. So when I'd worked my whole way around and I was all done I turned the piece of glass back over and I just went around and smoothed out any air bubbles. I actually used a little credit card for this or my Ikea family card and I also used a very fine needle if you've got some really persistent air bubbles you can just prick a very tiny hole in them and then use that hole to just get the air out and smooth it down with the cloth. I managed to get a really really neat finish on this piece and it is worth just trying to smooth out those bubbles. Work your way from the centre out towards the edges and smooth the air out that way. Then back to the table I'm going to take off the paper and the masking tape that was protecting the little table section and give this a wipe down ready because we're actually going to cover this section with pvc as well. So I've actually pre-cut a piece of the pvc marble and I'm going to use the same method. I've peeled back a small section of it. I'm going to apply this to the edge with a little bit of an overhang so I can wrap it round underneath and then as before with the glass I'm going to pull the backing paper away from underneath and smooth down with a cloth. It takes a little bit longer because obviously you're trying to work between the two sides of the desk but it's exactly the method as you've used before. So I'm working my way along nice and neat and actually once I've finished applying all the pvc I'm actually going to neaten it up even further by using a little craft knife just to trim off any overhang because obviously I've cut the piece of pvc as accurately as I can but to make it really really neat I'm just using the craft knife to finish off the edge. Then I'm going to fold over the excess underneath and use my cloth to smooth it off and get a really nice neat finish on these edges because you're going to see those and I repeated that for the other side of the little shelf too and trimmed off any excess and as you can see got it really really nice and neat. And now lastly with the pvc I'm going to cover the top of the little bedside table so for this piece I have purposely cut it a little bit bigger than the section of glass because I am going to trim off all the excess with that really sharp craft knife so I'm doing the same method pulling back the backing paper using a cloth to smooth and then I'm pushing it right into the edge as you can see and I'm going to use my craft knife to trim off all of that excess. I'm also going to use my little craft knife just to cut out the corners as well because this table has a design where the corners are actually empty of glass and I'm going to follow that with the pvc so it's a bit of a fiddly job but again it's just worth it to have that nice neat finish if you don't have a craft knife you could use a really really sharp pair of scissors or you could of course just cut your piece of pvc to the exact size and just be really careful when you apply it. And that's it this is how my finished console table looks in my living room I've actually got it next to my sofa with my lamp on it and I've actually used the clips on the leg which are obviously for all your laptop cables to actually clip the cable for the lamp which is quite handy too. I'm using the shelf underneath for magazines and yeah I just really really love the way it looks in my living room it fits next to my sofa perfectly and I'm really really happy with the finish. And then this is what my bedside tables look like after the diy so they sit in my spare room one either side the bed and the gold goes really nicely with the decor in there I've got lots of gold accents I use the shelf underneath to store magazines and a little candle and yeah I just think the nine pounds they're an absolute bargain and the little diy really does transform them so really happy with how they look. Thanks so much for watching hope you enjoyed this diy and do watch my last diy video as well and of course don't forget to like and subscribe for more videos