DIY Home Decor Thrift Flips 🔨 Designer Decor for LESS *Easy & Budget Friendly*

Hello everybody. Welcome back to my channel. I hope you guys are ready for a video full of thrift flips because today I'm taking you along with me to the thrift store and we are going to look for some items that we can upcycle and transform, whether they be smaller or all the way up to large scale furniture pieces into something completely brand new. I've shared countless videos thrift flipping in the past. It is one of my absolute favorite things to do, but something I realized is I haven't done it in quite a while. And since I'm going out and sourcing for my shop, I figured I might as well also see if I can find any things that we can flip here for the channel. Give you guys a little bit of creative inspo for the season upon us, which is fall. I'm going to be decorating for my space very, very soon. So, if you guys like to see a fall home transformation, give this video a big thumbs up. But we need to head to the thrift store, see what we can find, because who even knows what we're going to be creating today. So, let's get started. Look how cool this laying lady is. She's like a plaster or something. Oh, even her. She's kind of cool in the back, too. Oh, look at this scary sword. This is one of those like dried out cactuses in lamp form. I think I found something really cute to start. It's this accordion little like holder. And I have an idea. We might be able to strip this and get the finish off and then paint a cute little detail on this and make it kind of folk art inspired. Kind of reminds me of like a Swedish cabinet in a sense. I don't know why. It looks like little drawer poles on a cabinet. So, I think it could be cute in like Swedish folk art style. $7.99 and it has hangers in the back. This is actually a painted little candalabra, which is kind of what I was thinking for this. Not exactly like this. This is a little too crazy, but similar vibe. I think I'm going to leave this for something else, though. This is kind of cool because it's just a plywood, like pressed plywood table frame. I think this could be a great base for a DIY because we could micro cement over the top of it, plaster it. There's a lot of options. It's $15 and it's a really nice little table. So, I'm going to get this and we are going to figure out what to do with it. How cool are these here? There are little CD holders, like mid-century style CD holders. I love the feet on this. Um, and it kind of if we were to remove all of these slots here, it would basically just be like a framework. And we thought, what if we turned them into like floor lights and did either maybe some rice paper or plexiglass or something in the front that would kind of hide the bulb on the inside. We could even like attach the bulb to the backside like a long strip bulb. going to be the matter of turning them into lamps. And I think honestly much more practical than CD holder. [Music] This right here is going to be our first project that we're going to work on. I'm actually very excited about this because the fabrication that I want to do to this is actually inspired from my recent photo shoot that we did for my rugs. There was two rooms that had this really great burgundy like Roman clay throughout the spaces and it was so beautiful. I'll pop up some photos right now. now and I was just admiring it the days we were shooting there. And I want to try to create something similar with using some feather finish concrete and then maybe going over the top of it with a glossy sealer to basically give the concrete a high gloss look. This is our feather finish concrete. I picked this up at Lowe's and this just comes in a traditional kind of gray concrete color, but I actually ended up ordering some cement powder pigment online so that we can color our concrete. So, I kind of want to give it a burgundy look. I have this dark brown, purple, and kind of this red tone that we're going to mix up with the concrete. We have these three pigment options. And so I think I'm going to go for this reddish burgundy tone. Ooh, can you see that? Probably about like maybe like that much. Let's just do a whole concoction blend. And then to brighten it up, why don't we add this little red pigment? It's a pretty color. It's like chocolate frosting. Okay. It definitely has like a little purple tint to it. Can you tell with this like purpley glass? Kind of looks similar in tone. We have to go semi- quickly with the process of our concrete, which is this gorgeous shade of like reddish purple at the moment. So I am just going to start slapping this on that pigment. I did not mix that pigment very well. [Music] Ew, it smells like freaking fish. Feather finish does quickly quickly dry. It dries in about 15 minutes. So, I actually had to bring in Justin so that we can get this product on quicker because I was going a little slow. It's also hard to film and do these at the same time. Justin's finishing up that last side and I'm going to go in with this dampened sponge to smooth out any of these like peaks and smooth out any crevices and cracks. going. [Music] Our first coat is on the table. And while that dries down, I'm going to start working on our little wall hook. And this is an accordion wall hook, meaning that it opens and closes, which is nice. I don't know if it like has a purpose for being accordion. Like, is it so you can store it away or I guess just kind of like put it at whatever length and width you want. But as you can see as I shine this in the light, it has a very thick kind of like a lacquered yellow coat on it. 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So, make sure to click that link in the bio because I think it's actually ending very, very soon. So, you want to take advantage of that while the sale last. I brought this into the back room because I thought it would be easier to film this back here. But, as you saw when I was at the thrift store, I actually came across two of these CD racks, and I thought they were super cool. I love the shape of the leg on them. I like how tall they are. They're super slender and the grain on the side. It's like a nice oak wood as well. Originally, the idea was to actually remove all of these dowels on the inside. Just kind of take them all out and then apply some wood strips on the inside of here and then add like paper over the top of it like a rice paper or something. When weaving the fabric through the dowels. So, let's get started. I actually ended up getting some fabric at the fabric store this morning and it's a nice linen kind of like a see-through one. I thought I could double it up if I needed to. We actually have to install the light first. So, the light that I'm using, I ordered this on Amazon. It's actually an under the kitchen cabinet light. So, if you can imagine, this would go underneath the kitchen cabinets. All I'm going to have to do is drill a hole big enough for this cord in the backside. [Music] And it's actually kind of nice because the cords can tuck behind the dowels and it's not like they need to be missing or anything. So, I'm just going to go ahead and add a few dots of glue. It looks like they could span across three dowels each. So, I'm going to make sure that I add three dots of glue on each of the dowels. And then one there. And these are super super light. So, the hot glue is definitely going to hold that in there. Okay, let's plug it in and give a give a test. Ooh, looks kind of gorgeous, actually. It's a nice kind of lightweight linen. You can already see the light kind of shining through there. So, I wanted it to be something on the lighter side, which is actually quite nice cuz it it kind of highlights that edge. It's going to be a little trial and error. cut a panel that's the exact width of this opening here and then cut another panel that's about probably has an half of an inch of seam allowance wider so I can fold it over and sew it. Okay, this cutting clip right here is sped up 20 times. I just want to share with you how dull and bad my scissors were. I was like laughing and also crying this entire time of cutting the strips. But you know what? I did it and that is all that matters. I was switching between three different pairs of scissors. These ones ended up working out the best. I just need to invest in a good pair of fabric scissors, but I end up always cutting other things with the fabric scissors. The panel underneath is wider than the panel on top. So, I'm just going to iron and press this over the top. And then that's where we're going to stitch. This is definitely a crucial step because it's going to make sure that when you go to sew, be really nice and just clean. And then our front side is going to be this side. Actually, this gorgeous product here called Faultless Luxe Finish Ironing Spray gives you a really clean and crisp uh press whenever you go in with your iron. Feel like a stared shirt. Yeah, a star shirt. If you could imagine, I'm going to be sewing this with a flap on the back side because I want the stitch to look really nice here. Kind of make sure that my stitch is going right along the edge. Here's [Music] our fabric panel. I actually have the CD tower upside down currently. So, this is the top of it cuz I want to hot glue this right on the top lip here. It's raw wood on the inside, which is perfect. And then we could feed the rest of it like through our light. Going to place the outside of the fabric just right down on top. That way when we go and pull this up, it's going to look nice and clean and like it's attached on the inside and like it's a linen shade. There's a few different ways that I can actually put the fabric through. So, I can kind of weave it through, which was my original idea, but upon actually trying that, I feel like it might not look Oh, it actually kind of does look better when I have it longer. Ooh, look at that, you guys. Okay, so here's option one. does have a little bit of puckering, which I'm not loving. Option two is just to like have it fully inside where you can see all the squares, which might alleviate some of the puckering. Definitely kind of streamlines it a little bit and almost makes it look like a just like a strip of fabric, which I think probably looks a little better. Now, everyone keep in mind when I turn this on, I might have to do some adjustments still. That looks pretty good. I think [Music] it off. [Music] Oh, yeah. It's definitely lighter in there. All that lacquer that's coming off. That's sick. [Music] I think I mentioned earlier that I figured out the best way to mix in the pigment and it's actually to add the pigment to your liquid first before mixing that into the concrete. That way the pigment is nice and liquefied and then you can add your liquid into your concrete mix. So, as you can see here, I'm adding in our purple toned water and mixing it all up. And this just made sure that the concrete was all really, really nice and mixed. [Music] There really is no rhyme or reason to applying this concrete mixture. Uh you're just going to want to make sure that you get a nice even coat and that you try to smooth down as much as you can before then going in with your sponge. And the sponge is what's going to really kind of smooth down all of those little peaks and crevices and cracks and make sure that everything is kind of cohesive and blended out in the end. [Music] Oh my gosh, it is the next morning. Look how good this looks. I love the finish on this. It actually looks very reminiscent to the wall finish at the shoot I was talking about. Wow. I'm going to put on the glossy sealer though, which is going to intensify the color a lot because right now it's just like a raw concrete. It's also going to add a protective layer and make this a fully waterproof table. But this is stunning. I really, really love the color. Like, let me see if I can get in a little closer for you guys. [Music] [Music] All the finish is now off of our wooden accordion hooks, which is great because I actually was going to go through and just hand paint the base of this. The finish, however, wouldn't really come off of the knobs. I got it off of this one with a lot of work. So, I decided to actually leave the finish on the knobs, and I'm going to leave those wood. do want to give this a base coat of spray paint just cuz it's going to be way easier than having to paint all of the base by hand. So, I'm going to tape off all of our knobs and then we can bring this outside, spray paint it, and then we can bring it back in and add all of our painted details over top. Repurposing the area I was concreting the table in. That's why it is so dirty. But, we do have some cardboard down. Going to be using this spray paint here called matte pale sage to give this a nice coat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Okay, I really like that. Actually, the colors are really like popping together, too. I love the kind of sienna color on top of the blue tone. The reason I love doing leaves when I paint when I ever do any like painting projects like this is cuz they're really forgiving and they're not too challenging of a motif. And I feel like they're always they always look really cute, you know? Like you can use that all the time. So [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music]