DIY Ikea Hacks (2025) French Inspired Furniture & Lighting *Budget Friendly*

welcome back to my first DIY video of 2025 today I'm going to be sharing with you guys three different Ikea hacks that are perfect for a bedroom space now of course these can be totally utilized in different spaces throughout your house but I'm starting a little series here where I'm sharing different projects for different rooms in your house all stemming from Ikea so if you like this video and you'd like to see more give this one a big thumbs up and before jumping into our first project I do want to mention that our online store is currently on sale for 15% off use code just because at checkout to get 15% off all order is over $99 also Shi for free so it's a perfect time to shop let's go ahead and dive on into our first Ikea [Music] Hack for our first project I'm going to be using this new Ikea stool called moror I believe I got the gray option and we are actually going to be channeling a French style rope stool which is very reminiscent of the style of Adu and man back in the 1950s and we're actually going to be using a leather painting tutorial that I did a while back on my channel this was probably like 4 years old I will pop up a hard for it if you are curious about this chair that I did and this technique truly is so cool you have to watch so basically what we're going to be using is a latex household paint and this was the one I used for Marie's bedroom trim and I'm going to be mixing a equal part of household paint to to fabric softener and I actually did a big test on this in the original video where I tried a third part fabric softener half Parts but as you see when you mix this up it kind of creates a really thick kind of almost latex faux leather coating if you can kind of imagine faux leather it basically is like a latexy plasticky coating over the top of a fabric so that's what we're creating our very own version of and the fabric softener actually is what's going to keep the paint from cracking and keeping this kind of faux leather very soft and seable and pliable just trust the process I promise you I actually created two different paint colors one that's lighter and one darker for shading and then I have a water bottle here just some water in a spray bottle I'm going to add some fabric softener in and this is going to be kind of our blending agent so whenever I do this technique or process I sprayed down some of that fabric softener and water first because it's going to allow your paint to spread a whole lot easier and I'm going in first with a nice thick coat of the base color that we did which was basically just the kind of light brownish tone I will pop up the color name if I have it for you guys I think it's color matched though if I believe correctly to the plaster I use in Marie's room so I don't think there's a proper color name for this but just any sort of like taupy tan color I basically gave this an entire coat on our stool to start and then when it was still wet because keep in mind this is going to take quite a while to dry down and cure I did go in with the darker shade to just initially start the process of shading because I do want this to kind of look like an antique real leather stool in the end so I'm going in with the darker shade just kind of adding this around where it would naturally darken so around the edges on the sides at the bottom where you'd probably have your hands on the stool more so I went around and I added some shading and this is how it was looking with my first coat it's looking pretty good so far and I set that aside so that we can start working on the leg here now I actually ended up getting this rope from Joann's Fabric and I ended up getting 15 yards which allowed me to do all four legs so I used some hot glue and I just did this in about 2in section starting off at the bottom of the leg I used some of the Rope on the inner side that you wouldn't really see as much and I started adding hot glue and just wrapping this around the leg we're going to be covering all of the black of the leg and this is really what's going to elevate the stool so much I just love the look of rope right now and interior design as many of you know if you watch my Trends video recently I sh that Western is trending as well which I feel like this kind of has a nod to Western but it definitely feels a little bit more classically French but all around it's just a really nice textural piece to add into your interior design I also love how this stool's on the smaller side so you can kind of pop it anywhere you can use it as an ottoman it can also act as like a makeshift side table and I was also thinking it could be really great if you didn't want to do the leather on the top you can also just get extra rope and create an entire rope stool if you were to just glue the Rope on the top and the spiral go all the way down the side imagine how incredible that would be just use some fabric glue stick so it holds down really well but for this one I thought the leather technique was really fun so I then screwed in all the legs and here is the second coat so I'm actually going in with the sponge for this coat and I grabbed a little bit of a warmer shade which again I did mix with the fabric softener I'm using my water and fabric softener mixture as well to just blend this out so whenever I feel like it's getting a little hard to blend with the sponge I grab the spray bottle and I just spray over the surface and it just allows the blending process to be a bit easier so you can see here I'm just spraying going in with the sponge dabbing and just picking up some color this is just how you're going to get the faux appearance of distressed antique leather and once this dries fully down and cures you are good to go [Music] [Applause] [Music] how good did that turn out I absolutely love that stool and honestly you guys I ended up purchasing for my home two montere chairs a while back they're probably my most expensive investment pieces in my home and they feature that rope detailing that I just love right now so I love that I was able to kind of create and emulate A similarish vibe or a fraction of the price because rope really is an affordable material when you use it in something like interior design before diving into our next project I do want to mention that this video is kindly sponsored by Helix and if you are in the market for a new mattress 2025 is a year that you want to improve your sleep you want to have better night's rest Helix is absolutely the mattress company that you guys need to go for I have been working with Helix for probably around 5 years now and I've also owned my Helix mattress for about 5 years and something I can say is the Lone Fox family loves Helix so many of you have emailed me and said that you have purchased a helix mattress the process was so simple and easy because truly it is like who wants to go to a mattress shop and test out mattresses I'm sorry I just don't and the great thing about Helix is they offer a 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and if you want to spice up your room a bit why not also create one of our Ikea hacks which why don't we go ahead and dive on into our second project for a second project I'm going to be using this new table lamp from Ikea I just love the tripod leg and also the circular shade I thought we can go ahead and update the shade and give the leg a little bit of a impact as well so the first thing I'm going to do is actually break out my industrial hole punch and if you don't have one of these do not worry you can totally use just a normal hole punch as well because this is more of like a paper style shade so you should be able to punch through it pretty easily and I went around the exterior of the shade on either side and about every half inch I added a DOT where I wanted to to punch a hole because we are going to be adding some lacing to the shade to kind of give it sort of a Southwestern could be even a little bit of a French Vibe but whenever I'm out antique shopping I always see these lamp shades that have this beautiful lacing detail to them and you can do this detail to absolutely any style of lampshade it doesn't have to be this one so keep that in mind if you just kind of want to spice up a lampshade as well so I repeated the process of punching the holes on the opposite side of the lampshade that way it was symmetrical on both sides I had this leather lacing in my stash for a while I probably bought this like 5 years ago for a project and just never got around to using it and I'm pretty sure I got it at Joann's Fabrics but I was able to use just one pack of this for the entire lampshade for the detail on the top and bottom and essentially what I did was I took it off the spool and I glued down the lace on the underside of the lampshade to start and then I started weaving the lace through and all you're doing is essentially lacing it around and creating a whip Stitch around the edge of your lamp shade and this process is pretty repetitive from here on out you're just going to lace around the lampshade just like this it probably took me about 30 minutes to 40 minutes to do the entire lamp shade so it really wasn't too bad and I love the accent that it did I also think this could be so cute to do on the little scon Shades that kind of clip on to sconces if you just want to add a nice little detail to a scon [Music] shade to finish off the lacing I went ahead and just snipped off and then glued it to the underside of the lamp and then for the legs I actually wanted to add just a little bit of an additional detail which this is totally not you don't have to do this if you don't want to but I thought I added a fun look and I thought I might as well just share it as well so taped off about an inch of the leg showing and then used some black paint to go in and just kind of paint a little black cap end cap on the bottom of the leg I thought it would add a nice little detail and just contrast nicely with the brown leather on the shade so once that dried I was able to pull off all the tape and this was a little detail on the end of the foot super simple but just adds a nice little accent and here's the best part we get to screw it all together and see how it looks so I attached the legs to the actual electrical part popped the shade on and I just love how this lamp looks it looks so cute [Music] styled I love the technique of the lace on the lampshade I think this is going to be really great for future projects as well or if I just buy a lamp from a thrift store that you kind of want to elevate add a little bit more detail to I think adding lacing to the shade is a nice touch but you all know I had to save my favorite for last which is actually a skirted bench and this project came to mind in Ikea I was like I actually love this curtain panel I found these curtain panels to start and I loveed the way that they looked I thought the Plaid was really pretty and then I came across a bench base that was actually on sale at Ikea for almost half off skirted furniture is really trendy right now so let me share with you guys how I created this bench you know I had to save my favorite project for last so I'm actually using a set of curtains from Ikea I'm not even going to pronounce that in this bench here which is actually currently on sale at my iea for $80 this is what the top looks like it is an upholstered bench but the legs on this truly are just so not cute they're very very shocking and simple so what we are going to be doing is actually reupholstering this in the curtain so I'm starting off by removing all the little buttons on the backside I just snipped the backside where they were kind of stapled down pulled all of these out but we are going to be keeping these because they actually worked perfectly with the fabric that I'm using so I set these aside and then I opened up the set of curtains that we're going to be using and I got pretty lucky because one of the panels was wide enough to cover it widthwise so I didn't have to use like a whole panel but it wouldn't even have mattered if I did because I'm using one panel for the skirt section and then one panel for upholstery so the Plaid fabric on top two acts as a nice guideline for when you need to cut and this curtain too comes in a bunch of different colors so if you don't like the simple one they also have like blue and green and a few other color ways so I'm going to start off first by just upholstering the top of this bench in our new fabric So I placed it the direction or orientation that I wanted it to go and I'm using my electric stapler which if you do not have one of these it is a great great investment it saves your hand for any upholstery project and makes it so much easier so I'll link below the one I use [Music] just made my way down the line added a bunch of Staples and with upholstery you can never have too many Staples the great thing about this bench too is that it's actually constructed out of wood which a lot of the Ikea benches I noticed were made out of metal so this allows us to reupholster it really nice and easily so I pulled the fabric to the opposite side made sure that I pulled that nice and taut and then just added a bunch of staples into that edge to have our fabric nice and tight and upholstered over our bench so for the corners I actually just went ahead and kind of tucked it like you would a present because the corner really doesn't show and the Plaid material too kind of just hides the corner really well so I stapled those down all four corners and then I went ahead and went back through to cut off all the excess fabric that was remaining after we stapled down our new upholstery now the buttons for mine actually just match the fabric perfectly so I just left them as is I got some embroidery floss and I looped that through the button and then I pulled the ends through that Loop there and we are going to thread this through a long needle that way we can push this through the bench and add in a button so you're just going to kind of poke it through the top side you can feel the hole on the underside where the previous button was added and I find this part to be so satisfying because it really tightens up the upholstery on the front and just makes it look so nicely done so I just went ahead and stapled it exactly how they did theirs and kind of how they did theirs was they just kind of wound it back and forth I'll show you again in a second here so I would just feel for where I felt the button needed to go and then also I used the Plaid just sort of as a reference so all of the holes I was trying to make sure that they were in alignment with the one next to it and then on the back side you just staple it down in One Direction flip it back staple it flip it back staple it a few different times that's just going to ensure that the string is nice and taut and your button is going to stay in place this is how it looked in the end but something I've been so obsessed with it was in my Trend video is skirted Furniture so I laid down our second curtain panel and I want to go ahead and cut out the fabric on the left and right side of the panel that way we have a hem on either side and we can just staple our cut Edge so as you could see here I'm cutting along the Plaid I laid down the legs and I actually ended up cutting about 2 in out um you're going to see when I cut the second one here that I laid down the leg to just get an idea of how high I want it to be and I just cut it about 2 in out from the leg but do not do this you're actually going to just want to cut your fabric panel to be the exact same height as this leg because the leg does tuck underneath the bench a bit so there's no need to add extra fabric you're already going to have enough and then what I'm doing here is I'm threading a needle with some embroidery floss because I want to gather the fabric up on a string and I'm sewing this on the cut edge of the fabric so the left side is the Hem of the curtain and this right side is where we cut the fabric so I'm gathering this up on my needle pulling my string all the way through I probably cut a piece of string that was as long as the curtain panel and once I had that all gathered up I was able to place this on top of the bench or I guess on the bottom side of the bench and I made sure to have it um stapled right side out so that the Plaid was going to be on the outside and just prega the fabric allowed me to lay it on top and get an idea of where I wanted the pleat to go and how much puffiness there was going to be in some sections because if I was just kind of organically pleating this and stapling it as I went I feel like I wouldn't know how much fabric I would need and I'd probably over pleet in some sections and then not have enough pleating in some sections so Gathering it beforehand just kind of lets you get an idea for where you're stapling the fabric down and one panel is going to actually cover a short side and a long side so there is going to be openings on either corner like diagonal of each other but that totally does not bother me at all I feel like a lot of skirted Furniture has little kind of slit vents on the corners at least some styles do so I thought for this bench it wouldn't be too bad but if you really wanted to you can totally sew the Fabrics like together lengthwise so you have a long continuous kind of a loop of fabric and then you can go through and staple it so that all of your edges are connected up this did not bother me at all and I went through and stapled down the second panel of fabric along the long Edge and then our last little short Edge on the top there just making sure that the Fabrics met up on the corners and last but not least to finish off this bench was essentially just connecting up the legs so those were super simple but as you can see this black little leg section would have been so boring and our skirt now covers this section and it also allows us to have storage on the underside because the skirt is going to cover absolutely anything you hide under here you could put bins under here you can put shoes under here whatever ever you want this is your new upholstered skirted storage bench and as you can see the skirt is just a little long on mine that's why I'm saying not to cut the extra fabric but for the finals I just popped it up just a bit so you can get an idea if you didn't do [Music] that and that my friends is everything in today's video I hope that you enjoyed this one and definitely give this video a big thumbs up if you enjoy Ikea hacks and you would like to see more spaces dedicated to Ikea hacks such as bathroom Focus living room Focus kitchen Focus let me know which one I should do next so leave a comment below finally also you guys not sick finally because I have been sick for like the past 2 weeks and it's finally coming to an end I'm starting to feel really really good and I cannot wait to get super crafty on the channel 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