Repair

When I was at school and lived with my parents, they broke the wall between a bathroom and a tiny toilet and made one big bright room with a window. They put light tile on the floor, a corner acrylic bathroom, removed all unnecessary things. Even though the walls were cheap plastic panels, still the ...

Today I am going to make cups to place them in my bathroom. After the flat renovation, I had many glass-inlay leftouts and decided to use them to make something. To do it, you`ll need the following: 1) glass-inlay; 2) glasses; 3) plastic lids; 4) knife; 5) masking tape; 6) grout; 7) tape; 8) ...

Recently I have been approached by a friend asking me to fix a burnt sleeve on a favorite textile jacket. The owner refused to remake the jacket in a vest, so I turned to the world mind to find inspiration. Some options seemed interesting to me and I wanted to share with you some ideas that you can ...

I don't like Soviet furniture. It is sad and richly varnished. But it is made out of beech wood. Not cheap pine but noble beech! And the design is ergonomic. I want to show you how to refresh old furniture at the example of a 1960s Soviet chair. Dusty padding is thrown away: The chair ...

I like repairs, and this time I decided to share a little secret how to recycle old leather into marvelous handles for furniture. You need: - leather of 1 mm thickness and more - metal ruler - a sharp stationery knife - cropodile - mat - bolt - nut Cut off a strip 95 x 20 mm from the piece of ...

Let's try to make a little repair right on the cover? This technique can lead to many ideas of creating jewellery.   Take a piece of bindery cardboard for the tiles and apply glue Korfix evenly (alternative – thick PVA). Neatly glue scrap paper on the cardboard — its pattern will be then ...

I love old things - they have something in them, some incomparable charm. But very often, these things come to us in a very shabby condition. I inherited an old wardrobe from my grandfather. Quite large - more than a meter width, made entirely of natural wood and veneer. Of the special, red-orange ...

The first time I decided to share my experience of old furniture restoration. I have accidentally got four items of old furniture in poor condition: a desk, dresser, wall clock and trunk of two grannies, sisters, who came from Shanghai to our city and lived here the rest of their lives. My husband ...