Diy Ikea Rast Makeover Alongside Weathered Gray Forest Stain

mensuration tutorial for taking a plainly Ikea nightstand together with staining it grayish for a weathered loo DIY Ikea Rast Makeover alongside Weathered Gray Wood Stain

Hey ya'll!

So, I mean value I've pinned almost 400 Ikea Rast Hacks, but I've never really done 1 of my own. Mostly because there's no Ikea anywhere close Knoxville, but also because I beloved to repurpose thrift store finds (as opposed to tediously assembling furniture).

But, when it came fourth dimension to furnish the invitee bedroom, I decided to banking corporation check out what this Rast describe concern was all about.

I was pretty excited to discovery that y'all tin shipping away guild Ikea materials online, AND that the Rast was alone $35.
I'm in all probability the alone somebody inward the basis who didn't know this information.

It arrived inward a tiny fiddling box together with looked deceptively simple.

And together with then I started unpacking the box.

And straightaway regretted telling Jesse that I wanted to practise this on my own.

It eventually started to accept shape.

And afterwards iii reruns of Top Chef, a tiny wooden foursquare of a dresser was born.

I was bummed at how poor it looked inward person, but I felt similar an assembling champion at this point, so...irrelevant.

Then, I called Jesse dorsum into my 'workspace' together with asked him to help me drill some additional holes for my hardware.

After the dresser was all create to go, I decided to create a weathered/driftwood grayish look.

I tested out several unlike stains together with eventually settled on Rustoleum Ultimate Wood Stain inward Sunbleached (affiliate link). It looked to a greater extent than tan on the exterior of the can, but in 1 lawsuit I applied the stain, it was the perfect shade of lite weathered gray.

For a topcoat, I used Varathane polyurethane in Matte. I didn't desire any sort of sheen on the forest (so that it would await really weathered), but at the same fourth dimension I wanted the surface to live durable. The matte Varathane totally did the trick.

A few tips for staining raw forest furniture:

1. Make certain y'all sand your slice alongside fine grit sandpaper first, every bit this volition brand the forest soak upward the stain better.

This is crucial.

2. Use a dropcloth alongside a plastic layer to protect your floors, every bit the stain is messy together with volition run.

3. Apply the stain alongside a rag or paintbrush. I prefer a inexpensive paintbrush.

4. Once the stain is dry out (I permit it dry out for a total day), apply 1-2 layers of the topcoat alongside a paintbrush together with permit that fully cure earlier using the dresser.

The procedure is really every bit uncomplicated every bit but brushing on the stain. The directions state to wipe off the excess, but I works life that it looked means amend if I but permit the stain absorb into the forest together with and then dry.

My alone electrical load would live the smell. The topcoat I used was H2O based together with didn't odor at all, but the stain was crude based together with gave off a lot of fumes. So, but brand certain to ventilate your workspace.

I naively started staining the dresser inward the bedroom, where I normally paint, together with straightaway realized, NOPE, this isn't going to work. Cut to me inward a hazmat conform inward the haunted solid room alongside 2 fans together with opened upward windows.

Learn from my mistakes. Buy a solid alongside a non-gross garage.

Once the dresser was dry, I added some pretty fiddling Victorian brass loving cup pulls that I works life here.

They added the perfect fiddling amount of sass.

I'm but thence happy alongside the means these fiddling nightstands turned out, together with they lucifer perfectly inward the finished invitee bedroom.

I but finally finished this room, afterwards icon the walls

(Benjamin Moore Chelsea Gray), together with installing novel trim.

NEVER AGAIN, YA'LL.

It finally all came together alongside the add-on of the 2 Rasts, an upholstered bed I works life on Craigslist, a shiny novel chandelier, together with my favorite fiddling zebra rug from Rugs USA.

And hither are the balance of the beginning details inward 1 handy place...just inward illustration you're curious:

Zebra rug: Rugs USA

Bed: Craigslist for $200, took the ugly bronze nailheads out 1 past times 1 together with spray painted them silver. Totally torturous. (Craigslist shopping tips here.)

Bedding: White duvet comprehend from Target several years ago. Pink velvet pillow from Bed Bath & Beyond. Beige pillows I made alongside glue.

Nightstands: Ikea Rast

Victorian Brass Cup Pulls: D. Lawless Hardware

Lamps: thrift store

Chandelier: National Builder Supply

Wall color: Benjamin Moore Chelsea Gray (new fave...so cozy for a bedroom).

Stuff on nightstands: Let's pretend I pose to a greater extent than endeavour into that.

That's all for today, ya'll!

Thank y'all thence much for beingness hither together with for caring almost what goes on inward my fiddling world.

'Til side past times side time.

P.S. This is the quaternary fourth dimension I've redone this room. It WILL live the last. I swear. But y'all tin shipping away encounter the other versions here, here, and, here if you're curious. :)