Living Room Furniture

I am Annie from Champagne Chaos and today I'm going to do a living room furniture IKEA Hack breakdown. I have three pieces in t So I'm going to do an overview. I have the sofa table be I have t So I'm going to do a quick overview and a little bit of a tutorial for each one. So let's get started! I'm going to start first with the coffee table because the coffee table was probably the most straightforward furniture build in t I knew I wanted these fluted doors as my base in the dark walnut. Also knew that I wanted storage in here. I found t Use the dimensions of t Once the base was built I then attached the drawer in here first because obviously it's a heck of a lot easier to access these Next step was adding the top. I really lucked out with t I stained it dark walnut and I'll show you a close-up from t I mean it's just Once it was stained I attached it from underneath. I was able to screw into it through the frame into the top so it's on there very securely. We've moved the last step was adding the cabinet doors. I used glue. I used nails. I t I did not use nails. I screwed in through the frame into the cabinet doors so I attached all the cabinet doors the same way that you would attach cabinet doors in a kitchen. Make sure your screws are not too long because then they'll poke out and it's a whole other the key I have n It's really hard to get a good angle because of the couches in the way. It fits the space perfectly. I used the same cabinet doors for t I believe those cabinet doors pair with the Besta unit. They were either out of stock or they might have been too deep. I wanted somet The curved edges are what makes t I used a technique called a kerf bedding. You cut through plywood or the wood but you leave the top layer on there and totally intact. Equally spaced out cuts along the back of the wood. So then when you go to fold it, back pieces that you cut, it kind of all come together, makes it look There is a kerf bending calculator. I played around in that calculator so much and I could not for the life of me figure out how to use it correctly. I mean, it's down to that they ask you the blade size that you're working with. They ask you all the details and I don't know if I was just getting some of the details incorrect but the calculator did not work for me. So for me, it was a bunch of trial and error. I tried kind of just making a ton of cuts and seeing if the wood would bend and it just did not bend uniformly and therefore there were cracks in the top layer. Keeping those cuts equally distanced apart, am I saying that correctly? I tried to get away with as few cuts as possible. The more cuts I made, the more pliable it was, w I've seen a lot of people do t I don't even have a full-sized one yet. I will be getting one eventually but t I still had to modify that cabinet for these doors and add, I had to add brackets to attach the I screwed into the brackets from the cabinet frame just I'll say t I always cut longer than I measure and then slowly You can trim material off, you cannot add it on. Once the blocks were added on each end for the curved piece, I brought it inside because t I did not want to add the fluted doors and risk damaging them, carrying them into the house. I used a lot of glue as few nails as I could but obviously I needed to tack it in place to let the glue dry. When I added the top, my n You can barely see it. There's a teeny tiny space, maybe an eighth of an inch, maybe a 16. That top is not touc I painted it in color today, painted it w I did consider doing an epoxy marble top here and I t If you have it in you please do that. I would love to see what that looks I think I'd I ordered regular furniture legs for that was a joke. The stock cabinets from Home Depot have a ton of particle board in them and that just cr The legs What I ended up doing is building a platform for t Out of plywood and scrap wood that I had in the garage, I built platform, added the legs to it basically just for looks. T I cut it hole in the back for cords for the TV so those are all I can show you. That's a frame TV so that's why it doesn't always look So they use t It's been, wow, we've had it for, we've had it for over a year now. The kids haven't just turned it yet. IKEA hack n T Anyt All three of the pieces in here all do have storage and I am grateful for every square inch of it. T I'm not sure why it's here. T W IKEA is affordable compared to a lot of other options. These nightstands they look They were $90 a piece. I knew that I wanted to spend the whole length of the couch so I got five of them w On the nightstands they have these the little When you push the nightstands together there's a little bit of a gap. A screw can't make it past that gap. It needs to be in wood the entire time. I added little strips of trim in between each nightstand at the front. I wish I had the strips along the back as well. I tried screwing them together in the back and because of that gap a screw just spun and spun it never caught on to anyt I did t Once I added that trim I screwed all the nightstands together. The next step was covering up any signs of the separate pieces at the top. My original plan was to put plywood here and then I came across the PL and stick veneer and I wanted to give it a try because w I found exactly one 4x8 sheet and then one 4x4 sheet of plywood white oak in all of Col The tips that I got from the guy who sold me the veneer at the woodworking shop make sure that you use somet End of using the reason I used it is because it's heavy and The other tip was to use a razor blade and cut from underneath to trim it. That did not work out so well for me. I could not get I ended up having an iron-on edge banding trimmer on hand and that's what I used. Going the length of the veneer it worked beautifully. It did not work as well going against the grain so with that I had to use a razor and then I had to sand it down to get the edges smooth because it did not have the smoothest finisher tip. It was to make sure you allow three days for the veneer to cure before you try and put any sealant on it. I will say even after waiting the three days when I went to seal t It's awesome and I've used it on so many t Bubbles started to form and those bubbles could have formed because maybe I didn't push down on those few areas hard enough. Most of those bubbles I was able just Most of them went down without a problem. One or two stubborn bubbles that were just a little bit bigger. I used a th We need to router out a little bit of the side panel for it to fit the lip inside I thought I was saving money. I put regular plywood down below because I knew it would be There's about an inch of exposed edge all the way down so you could see the regular plywood that I had used, the non-w And then the part that I routered, I had routered about a fourth of an inch too I had just gone up too What I ended up doing was using Bondo. I clamped wood to keep it real straight on where I needed the Bondo to fill. It dries really quickly and it's really hard so I was able to sand it down completely flush with the plywood, the w I ended up covering that with the w I had some leftover from the top. That one inch that was exposed all the way down, I used iron-on edge banding for that strip. Once I put the side panels in place, the veneer and the edge banding covered up all of my mistakes and it looked I love that I'm holding t I'm trying to cover up the hole in my knee. I didn't realize I had till just now, what was I saying? Oh, what really finished it off was the iron-on edge banding. I used the one and a half inch t You do have to hold in place for kind of a w It's, it time-lapses such a lie. Not Put on a good movie or listen to a podcast, whatever. For this looks Once I had the side pieces on, then I just had to put a little bracket in the middle. I don't know if you need t I sandwiched two pieces of plywood together again, iron-on edge banding on the exposed sides. I ended up gluing that in place, screwed from the inside of the frame into the side panels. That's how I attached them. I just had to add the top piece, two layers of plywood, clamped it together to make sure all the edges were perfectly flush and then I nailed into each side. I did Once that top was on, then I just used that one and a half inch edge banding all the way around. I did it all along the back too, especially because the top of the back is exposed above the couch when the pillows are off. I found a really great combo for wood filler. I had wood filler, is the brand, w It worked really, really well. I did have to sand some of these corners, some of the adhesive from the edge banding would stick out in a couple places. Using a fine grit paper, just sand it down a little bit to make it a little bit more invisible. Then I sealed it and I sealed it a lot because t It dries, you do a very light sanding with a I almost forgot about the baseboard. I ended up adding a strip along the bottom. This made it look I made sure that it did not impact the functionality of the drawers and I also did not want it dragging on the floor. The moment you add the sealer on it, that color becomes just That's your moment. Maybe a heads up, the nightstands themselves were $450. White oak plywood, the one that I found because there was none around Col It was $260 for a sheet. The sheets that I bought had some damaged parts on it so I actually got a discount so it was about $350. T Edge banding was about $60. It was out to about $960 w The amount of storage and the size of t I forgot to give you the cost breakdown of the sideboard and the coffee table and to be honest I don't remember off the top of my head. I'm going to look it up and I will put it on the screen when I go to edit t