Beach Room
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craftgrrlMy mom has been redoing her room in a sort of beach-house-full-of-things-gathered-on-vacations-in-far-away-places look, so there's been many opportunies for crafts.
She wanted a canopy look without filling the room with fabric, so we opted for a small one to go over the headboard. We bought bamboo in Chinatown, then cut it with our handy Dremel (seriously, best investment ever - if you want an even better deal, buy the Canadian Tire one - works the same, takes the same bits, $50 cheaper), then hot-glue-and-twined it all together. The curtains were bought at MiniPrice, but only because we could get 2 long curtains for $5, and it's cheaper than buying the fabric!
An old lamp from when I was a kid, transformed into a beachy light. Reminds me of a lighthouse or a bouy.. The bottom has beach glass and shells hot glued on, the middle has sticks (probably small bamboo from our old house) hot glued and then tied on, and the lampshade was just some cheap canvasy stuff.
An easy way to do picture frames! She just nailed some wood together, stuck the pictures to the back, and hot glued twine to hang them together (there's no glass in it, so it's light).
This lamp is made with those lights you use in Christmas villages (that go in the bottoms of the houses), with small paper shades bought in Chinatown, wrapped around bamboo. The base is just a plantpot filled with rock to hold it up, and a bamboo placemat wrapped around it.
This is above the window. It is those long beachmats cut up, with sand dollars and shells we picked up at the beach hotglued on, and a mask we found at the thriftstore added. Above it to fill the space and break it up a bit is dried grapevine, but you could easily use sticks or driftwood.
She wanted a canopy look without filling the room with fabric, so we opted for a small one to go over the headboard. We bought bamboo in Chinatown, then cut it with our handy Dremel (seriously, best investment ever - if you want an even better deal, buy the Canadian Tire one - works the same, takes the same bits, $50 cheaper), then hot-glue-and-twined it all together. The curtains were bought at MiniPrice, but only because we could get 2 long curtains for $5, and it's cheaper than buying the fabric!
An old lamp from when I was a kid, transformed into a beachy light. Reminds me of a lighthouse or a bouy.. The bottom has beach glass and shells hot glued on, the middle has sticks (probably small bamboo from our old house) hot glued and then tied on, and the lampshade was just some cheap canvasy stuff.
An easy way to do picture frames! She just nailed some wood together, stuck the pictures to the back, and hot glued twine to hang them together (there's no glass in it, so it's light).
This lamp is made with those lights you use in Christmas villages (that go in the bottoms of the houses), with small paper shades bought in Chinatown, wrapped around bamboo. The base is just a plantpot filled with rock to hold it up, and a bamboo placemat wrapped around it.
This is above the window. It is those long beachmats cut up, with sand dollars and shells we picked up at the beach hotglued on, and a mask we found at the thriftstore added. Above it to fill the space and break it up a bit is dried grapevine, but you could easily use sticks or driftwood.
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